Does Your Office Have a Library?

Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by rvba on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:36PM (#34830826)

Did you read all of them?

Can be so kind to you recommend one or perhaps top5?

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Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by kristopolous on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:13AM (#34831053)

For what? I think everyone that programs should read Tracy Kiddars Soul of a New Machine, Ries&Trout The 22 immutable laws of marketing,

My #3 is way lower, which follows one of the 22 laws, but probably Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons.

Those are three enjoyable books that are pretty easy to read and have pretty valuable lessons in them that can take quite a long time to truly appreciate.

The task of a programmer is to create efficient and elegant machines based on thoughts by using imagination. Human creations by human hands, programming is a social product. Algorithms and data structures are actually the more shallow lesson. Creating something that finds place in the world is the true challenge.

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Re:Does Your Office Have a Library? by DocTomoe on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:32AM (#34832680)

> Did you read all of them?

To say it with Umberto Eco[1]: A library is a research tool. A library of books you've all read is worthless.

[1] I have read that directly from Eco, I guess in some old book about how to write scientific papers. I can't find that anymore. The thought is reference in Nassim Taleb's "The Black Swan", though.

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