roman_g

Ask HN: Major Texts of Our Industry?

Posted by roman_g on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi ! I would like to create a list of the major texts in programming which influenced lots of people and were relevant back then, are relevant now and will be in the next 20 years.It shouldn't be books as I see it but articles, short texts, essays(maybe books of articles, like "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know")What I came up by now is this: "Go To Statement considered harmful" - by E. W....

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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:33PM (#19402748)

At least they are biased consistently and they truly believe they are not. When you agree to say and protect a set of views and facts carefully described in a contract... it's another thing.

Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of Food Science on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:25PM (#19037718)

Gosh, just read his first book. Black Swan. Where he shows that before Europeans discovered black swans in Australia it was a perfect "educated guess" to assume all swans are white.

Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of Food Science on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:18PM (#19014092)

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/987700101090086912

Re:“Modern” C++ Lamentations on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:31PM (#18780354)

It was one of Pascal main features in tape drive era: single pass compiler.

Re:Nassim Taleb on why IQ is baloney on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @09:34AM (#18757559)

Taleb doesn't mean IQ doesn't test something real. He says this "something real" is irrelevant.

Re:Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Sourc... on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:45AM (#18405109)

I thought free software was about freedom, not how to monetize it. You can never trust a service - only your own hardware (it's not quite possible with modern mass-market CPU though, only on IBM Power or some dummy MCU or even FPGA-based RISC/MIPS/whatever ) with free software on it. When did Linux become about cloud and containers, not about desktop?

Re:PEP 572: Python assignment expressions has been accepted on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @05:26AM (#17456153)

What other languages do you think "made it right" ?

Re:PEP 572: Python assignment expressions has been accepted on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @05:13AM (#17456128)

And if foo(z) is consuming a generator somehow (e.g. it's next(g)) then you can't call it twice without side effects.

Re:JavaScript is Good, Actually on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:10AM (#17082067)

One of the richest companies in the world with very good engineers made a supercomplex engine which nobody understands and looks like they cannot make it better and we use it happily as given - something's wrong here.

Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based on Thursday April 26, 2018 @08:40AM (#16931292)

Polish is a Slavic language and Latin letters are not suitable for it. I'm Russian who speaks English and a bit French and I can understand some Polish words (common roots etc.) like dobrze, dzień dobry, wiedzieć, znać, but I have no idea how to write them (looked up this words in Google Translate).

P.S. And I like to play Witcher III with Polish voices and Russian subtitles.

Re:Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015) on Monday April 23, 2018 @03:42AM (#16901271)

The whole article is a statistical fallacy. You should never compare "average" growth rates but extreme outcomes. What is the best possible outcome and the worst one in case of renting and in case of mortgage?

P.S. Read Nassim Taleb (and Daniel Kahneman) for the sake of reason.