How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff and Irving Geis
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
Game Programming Patterns
Robert Nystrom
4.8 on Amazon
8 HN comments
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Will Larson
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
4.6 on Amazon
8 HN comments
Calculus Made Easy
Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Nicholas Taleb
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt and Gildan Media, LLC
4.6 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
4.6 on Amazon
8 HN comments
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
4.3 on Amazon
7 HN comments
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
4.5 on Amazon
7 HN comments
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
7 HN comments
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
Martin Fowler
4.7 on Amazon
7 HN comments
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman, George Wilson, et al.
4.4 on Amazon
7 HN comments
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Joe Ochman, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
7 HN comments
lawnonJuly 29, 2021
The way you made your book(s), from making them available online for free to the excellent layout of the printed version, was a huge inspiration for me to write my own book. Thank you.
donquichotteonAug 5, 2021
Also, cool to see him pull a Knuth and writing his own typesetting and build system for the book!
munificentonJuly 19, 2021
https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html
:)
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coldteaonApr 26, 2021
For completeness and curiosity maybe. Otherwise one doesn't have to read the "actually-seminal papers" if they already know the concepts from the 40 to 20+ years that followed.
Do physicists need to read the original Einstein or Maxwell if they had read tomes of subsequent course and academic books on the subject, plus modern papers for the later developments?
In any case, I'm pretty sure the author of that post [1] had read at least the CSP papers -- he works on the Dart language team, and has written Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters, both quite popular books, which have been discussed (as in first page) more than 3-4 times in HN in the past years.
[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-....