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Ask HN: Best trivia/novel topic books?

HiJust saw "Sniff Petrol’s wonderfully interesting book of boring car facts: A review" in Ars Technica [0] and remembered how I enjoyed Nine Pints (a book about blood, [1]) and The Box (history of shipping containers, [2]).I would love to hear about the best books you've read that cover some interesting topic!Thanks![0]...

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Re:Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video] on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @03:04AM (#21331902)
Andy Pavlo's video lectures are very good. Watched both introductory and advanced lectures a year or so ago. Recommended. Previous videos may be found from the channel.
Re:Show HN: Slouch Stoppah on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:41PM (#21242023)
Very nice work! Thanks for sharing.

I can personally recommend Upright Pose, https://www.uprightpose.com/en-try/

Re:Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles on Sunday April 21, 2019 @03:36AM (#19710995)
Fascinating
Re:Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles on Sunday April 21, 2019 @03:36AM (#19710994)
Fascinating!

Ask HN: I'm fluent in Vue. Best resources to learn React?

Title says it all. I've got lots of experience with Vue and front-end in general, but need to learn React.I'm gonna go through the official tutorial [0] and step-by-step guide [1] but I'm more than sure those will not completely satisfy me.What else?Please note: I DON'T need to learn web dev in general. I know HTML/CSS/JS and the current ecosystem.:)Thanks a lot![0]...

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I truly recommend CMU's Andy Pavlov's video lectures on the topic (and also more advanced stuff)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjYutVzTeAds...

Re:What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed Systems on Sunday April 15, 2018 @12:38PM (#16843404)
Do you have any other book suggestions?
Re:What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed Systems on Sunday April 15, 2018 @12:38PM (#16843397)
Any Erlang book recommendations?
Re:CMU 15-721 Advanced Database Systems [video] on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:09AM (#16149059)
Looks great!

Any other similar video series?

If someone's interested, I made a summary of the paper a year back:

https://www.extreg.com/blog/2017/02/googles-ultra-large-scal...

Re:Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:37AM (#15365099)
My understanding is that there's an upgrade path just an do-release-upgrade away. I'm semi sure I've upgraded from beta to stable a few times.

Ask HN: Best book about compilers?

I would like to grab a book on compilers but am not sure which one to choose.The Dragon book (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools) is the one that gets recommended everywhere but that doesn't always mean it's the best. I find that many people recommend books they've actually not read and/or they haven't read anything else on the subject which makes it a bit tough to say the one they're...

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This is very nice! Keep it up!
Re:Ubuntu 17.04 Released on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:33PM (#14109106)
Ubuntu GNOME has been an official distro for a few iterations already. Will be dropped in the future.

https://ubuntugnome.org

Re:JavaScript Error Reporting and Website Monitoring on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:51PM (#14006904)
It's not loading anything :|
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:08PM (#14005185)
+1 This!
Re:Advantages of monolithic version control on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @11:47AM (#13811897)
I find discussions on this topic highly interesting. Thank you for this piece.

I myself summarized Google engineers' reasoning behind the monorepo decision. It may be found here https://www.extreg.com/blog/2017/02/googles-ultra-large-scal... and it's based on this original article http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-store...

You usually use localStorage for e.g. user settings that are not stored on the server. There are many sites that give you the possibility to change a preference or two without the need for an actual account on the site. That sort of information is usually stored in one of the client-side storages.

Ask HN: What's a tolerable network latency for development?

HelloI'm changing VPS providers and I have a couple of options. I can have the VPS located in either Frankfurt or Helsinki. Frankfurt gives me ~40 ms and Helsinki ~5 ms latencies.I'm planning to move some of my development to the VPS and would like to know your opinion about a tolerable latency. This is of course very subjective, but any experience would be very appreciated. Like is 35 ms a...

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Re:A book series on JavaScript on Sunday June 26, 2016 @12:36PM (#11981467)
Thanks!
Re:Show HN: I made a Hacker News for podcasts on Saturday April 16, 2016 @06:32AM (#11510067)
Very nice.

Ask HN: How do you track what you learn?

I would like to know your recommendation for a tool to track what you've learned this day/week/month etc.Some sort of a service where you could easily write notes about the stuff you came accross while developing something.For instance if I find a very useful link that shows me the correct way to do something, I would like to write that down somewhere with a simple explanation using my own words.

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Ask HN: Good intro to stocks books?

I'm looking for a good introduction to stocks book. Something clear, well-written, but still not too simple. It doesn't have to be a text-book of any sorts, just that it's fun and enjoyable to read and, of course, gets everything straight. I googled around and found multiple lists of books yet none of the arguments for them made me buy one. It seems like there are too many options to choose...

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Re:Ask HN: My Linux server was hacked on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @04:23PM (#9416788)
How did you secure your server?

How do you know it got hacked?

Ask HN: Tools for tracking bills, domain/cert expirations etc. for many websites

So I'm looking for a tool, presumably a webapp, that could track the dates of next bill, domain and certification expiration, and such, for many websites.This can be done in a spreadsheet, of course, but is there something shinier for the purpose? Of course you'd need to add the details yourself, but then you'd get a complete view of the upcoming events easily.This doesn't even have to have...

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Where? :=)

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