What are some good technical or nonfiction books you've read? I recently read Unix Power Tools, and it was quite enjoyable: most of the authors used a nice, lighthearted tone.I'm planning to read SICP sometime this year.
http://sin.thecthulhu.com/library/investigation/forensic/Fire_Arson_Investigation_Manual.pdfFairly sure most of it is bullshit but it's interesting to learn how fire investigators do their stuff
>>2A long time ago I used to know someone who was a credit fraud investigator. That's a long PDF: I may read it sometime.Neat~
The Art of The Deal was pretty comfy
I'm working through the Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers. It's got a pretty fun tone and lots of exercises.
I've neglected any serious mathematical/computational activity for nearly a year. I'm going to try to get back into it by (re-)reading Concrete Mathematics.
I read Paul Graham's On Lisp. It gave me a better understanding of macros, and examples of how to pile abstraction layers on top of each other to build amazing stuff. It also dispelled my doubts and showed me that Common Lisp really isn't for me - I'm more of a Scheme person.More recently, I read O'Reilly's Network Warrior. Being familiar only with home/SOHO networking equipment, I feared it'd be out of my league, but instead I found a very accessible book, that explains all the required background without patronizing the reader or dumbing things down, crammed with useful info both theoretical and practical. If you're interested, try to get the second edition, as the first has a fair number of errata.And now I really should be getting back to SICP sometime soon.
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