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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli

4.4 on Amazon

8 HN comments

Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

Gabe Brown and Chelsea Green Publishing

4.8 on Amazon

7 HN comments

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

J. E. Gordon

4.7 on Amazon

7 HN comments

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

4.6 on Amazon

7 HN comments

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

Sir David Attenborough and Jonnie Hughes

4.8 on Amazon

7 HN comments

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Paul Hawken

4.6 on Amazon

7 HN comments

PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story

Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin

4.8 on Amazon

7 HN comments

Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

Sean M. Carroll

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach, Shelly Frasier, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Snake: The Essential Visual Guide

Chris Mattison

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Daniel J. Siegel and Brilliance Audio

4.6 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Dinosaur: A Photicular Book

Dan Kainen and Kathy Wollard

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

Maria Konnikova

4.3 on Amazon

6 HN comments

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

David McCullough

4.7 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

Catherine M. Pittman

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

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daenzonDec 12, 2019

Shameless plug, I wrote Snake for Vim, which helps you configure Vim to be more flexible for writing code, using regular Python.

https://github.com/amoffat/snake

e40onJune 30, 2019

Loved your comment.

And before Boogie Nights there's a history of it in Cinema:

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-10-longest-unbroken-sh... the ones earlier than Boogie Nights:

Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983, 9m20s)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948, 1h20m)

and this came out about the same time, so I'm pretty sure they had overlapping production:

Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma, 1998, 12m57s)

daenzonMay 8, 2017

> I'd note that Vim also allows writing plugins in Python

Shameless plug, I wrote Snake https://github.com/amoffat/snake, which makes writing plugins in Python much easier.

ridruejoonNov 5, 2016

Steve Blank's snake oil??? "The 4 steps to the epiphany" was a transforming book for me and other entrepreneurs and the popular "The Lean Startup" follow up from Eric Ries a direct result of working with Steve. He genuinely cares about entrepreneurs and the valley ecosystem go watch "The secret history of Silicon Valley"

richardjordanonFeb 8, 2013

Ha! So true.

I am currently teaching my 8yo programming, or rather in the process of building a set of teaching tools for her - right now things are very early stage, and she's busy playing VIM Adventures to familiarize herself to the keyboard and keystrokes. I'm trying to decide between Ruby and Python, which has the highly recommended Snake Wrangling For Kids going for it.

mdsonDec 18, 2013

Cryptography Snake Oil Warning Sign #9: Cracking contests.

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html (1999)

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