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What have you read lately?

  • Sprony
  • January 21, 2013 at 12:30 PM
  • AlexM
    • July 30, 2014 at 3:38 AM
    • #41

    [Blocked Image: http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/user3/catscradle.jpg]


    Read it in one sitting in the park on a Saturday. I really like his stuff but I dont really know why...

  • AlexM
    • September 19, 2014 at 7:37 PM
    • #42

    The best C# language book there is by far. Intermediate level though. You definitely want to be very familiar with the language before starting it.


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  • Sentura
    • September 20, 2014 at 2:54 AM
    • #43
    Quote from AlexM

    The best C# language book there is by far. Intermediate level though. You definitely want to be very familiar with the language before starting it.


    [Blocked Image: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41prHleW6NL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg]


    What sort of knowledge does it provide?

  • Minos
    • September 20, 2014 at 3:09 AM
    • #44
    Quote from SpronyvanJohnson

    I don't think killing an estimated 30 to 60 million would be considered a custom in anytime nor would any amount of good work ever justify that.


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  • ⌐■_■
    • September 20, 2014 at 7:45 AM
    • #45

    lol

  • Sprony
    • September 20, 2014 at 9:52 AM
    • #46
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    Oddly enough he has a point. However, I always admired Alexander for his tactical genius and not the other things.

  • KoKo5oVaR
    • September 22, 2014 at 3:32 AM
    • #47

    I readed We, of Yevgeny Ivanovitch Zamiatine (i guess that would be the correct name). Pretty short sci fi novel from a Russian around 1920, that you could call the precurssor of Orwell or Huxley. Recommendend

  • AlexM
    • September 22, 2014 at 11:51 PM
    • #48
    Quote from Sentura

    What sort of knowledge does it provide?


    It goes over all the major features introduced from C#2 to C#5 and explains how things are done at the language level and behind the scenes. I'd say that after reading it I know more of the implications of coding something a particular way. Also there's some stuff that was fairly new to me such as expression trees and the await async stuff introduced in c#5

  • FrieChamp
    • September 23, 2014 at 8:57 AM
    • #49

    [Blocked Image: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/creativityinc-catmull.jpg]


    Less about how to be creative, more about how to create a sustainable work culture that allows creativity to flourish (and how to protect it). Explained through a portrayal of Pixar's (and to a certain extent: Disney Animation's) history.

  • KoKo5oVaR
    • October 15, 2014 at 9:42 PM
    • #50

    [Blocked Image: http://kaganof.com/kagablog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Discipline_and_Punish_1977_cover.jpg]


    I've never been good to pitch things, so let's just say this is a very interesting philosophy/sociology book i encourage you to get into

  • Enhex
    • October 16, 2014 at 1:59 AM
    • #51

    The only book I ever read and finished out of my own free will:

    [Blocked Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Masters_of_doom-Book_cover.jpg]

  • -HP-
    • October 16, 2014 at 2:10 AM
    • #52
    Quote from Enhex

    The only book I ever read and finished out of my own free will:

    [Blocked Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Masters_of_doom-Book_cover.jpg]


    lol word

  • blackdog
    • October 22, 2014 at 9:06 AM
    • #53

    Sacrificial Architecture

    http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SacrificialArchitecture.html

    Quote from Minos

    Anyway, great story and characters. Still waiting for the movie

    Some things are better not messed with Still in my list of books, which for a sci-fi junkie is a sin… but my OCD prevents me to read new books until I clear the pile I have unread.

  • Sprony
    • October 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM
    • #54
    Quote from Enhex

    The only book I ever read and finished out of my own free will:

    [Blocked Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Masters_of_doom-Book_cover.jpg]


    Also one of the saddest books I've read

  • Enhex
    • October 22, 2014 at 10:06 PM
    • #55
    Quote from SpronyvanJohnson

    Also one of the saddest books I've read


    I just take it as a bunch of important lessons.

  • Deh0lise
    • October 23, 2014 at 2:59 PM
    • #56
    Quote from KoKo5oVaR

    [Blocked Image: http://kaganof.com/kagablog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Discipline_and_Punish_1977_cover.jpg]


    I've never been good to pitch things, so let's just say this is a very interesting philosophy/sociology book i encourage you to get into


    That's an intense one, I specially remember the terrifying torture examples of the start.


    This one is cool too, I've read it not long ago:


    [Blocked Image: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31txp3PJ0hL._SS500_.jpg]

  • Minos
    • October 23, 2014 at 9:22 PM
    • #57
    Quote from KoKo5oVaR

    [Blocked Image: http://kaganof.com/kagablog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Discipline_and_Punish_1977_cover.jpg]


    I've never been good to pitch things, so let's just say this is a very interesting philosophy/sociology book i encourage you to get into


    Looks like some pretty deep shit.

  • Tisky
    • November 23, 2014 at 3:58 PM
    • #58

    [Blocked Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/World_War_Z_book_cover.jpg]

    Amazing. WTF is wrong with Hollywood. Movie is not even the same damn thing.

  • ZZZ
    • November 26, 2014 at 2:34 PM
    • #59

    http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine…=making%20magic

    http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine…%20developments


    The makers of MTG write an ocean of text, providing insights on design and development of MTG cards. Lots of cool stories. I'm leaving mapping indefintely and jumping in a different form of design and creative process: card creation and storytelling.

  • Sjonsson
    • January 23, 2015 at 12:12 PM
    • #60

    This: http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Sea-The-R…s/dp/1594631956

    Reaaally good journalism! Jon Ronson (worked as journalist for the Independent and the Guardian) travels world wide to interview many interesting figures such as the man who made a self-portrait while being induced with one different drug for each portrait. (This guy: http://bryanlewissaunders.org/drugs/)

    I can warmly recommend it for something you don't usually read!

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