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Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition)

Bjarne Stroustrup

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

Jason Schreier

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Effective Java

Joshua Bloch

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993--Illustrated Edition

Jordan Mechner

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson, Dylan Baker, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming

Robert C. Seacord

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer , et al.

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

Alex Petrov

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, et al.

? on Amazon

2 HN comments

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Timothy Andrés Pabon, et al.

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps

Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood Ph. D.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Java Concurrency in Practice

Brian Goetz , Tim Peierls, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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schnevetsonMay 4, 2021

I'm curious about what data suggests this, since getting honest answers about sexual activity from the public is a famously difficult challenge.

As an entertaining example, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's big data book Everybody Lies mentioned a study that asked people in the United States how frequently they had sex, and how frequently they practiced safe sex with a condom. If the resulting data was accurate and projected across the entire country, the United States consume 2.7 billion condoms a year... even though only 600 million condoms are sold in a year.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/06/our-searc...

atlasunshruggedonJuly 10, 2021

Don't have kids so no direct experience but I read the book Everybody Lies which looked at google search trends and was just fascinating and I do think mentioned that many people actually do regret having kids (and also a lot of women wonder if they're male partners are gay). So, if you regret having kids, you're probably less alone than you think!
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