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Jul 13th, 2005, 8:58 AM
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Last book you read
I have a couple books in the queue
Strange Beauty The Pleasure of Finding Things Out The Meaning of it all And I hope to get around to the Brian Greene books The Elagent Universe The Fabric of the Cosmos If anyone can recommend or discourage reading any of these books, it would be appreciated. |
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Jul 13th, 2005, 9:52 AM
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Cray X1 Diamond User's Manual
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Jul 13th, 2005, 10:13 AM
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let me try to remember here ... books I've read in the last 6-8 months ... in order from most recent back
Programming in Objective-C C Primer 5th Ed. Learning Python 2nd ... gets fuzzy after that ...
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Jul 13th, 2005, 11:13 AM
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Maybe I should clarify...
Books that don't deal with programming... haha |
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Jul 13th, 2005, 11:16 AM
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Non-programming related books exist? lol
Between the code, the job, and the woman... I have not the time to take the pleasure in reading other books. 
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Jul 13th, 2005, 11:36 AM
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I dislike novels...I can never get into them
I like books where I can easily extract knowledge just by reading
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Jul 13th, 2005, 12:11 PM
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You cannot gain any knowledge from the books I mentioned??
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Jul 13th, 2005, 12:38 PM
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Seems like life needs a pause button every now and again. 
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Jul 13th, 2005, 12:50 PM
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At the beginning of the summer I read The Naked Sun and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Now I'm reading a book called Memory from a couple professors at USC (I forgot their names and the book is not with me at work) and a couple GRE prep books. The Fabric of the Cosmos is pretty good, even though I don't buy into the whole String/M Theory scene.
EDIT: book recommendation -> On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
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Jul 13th, 2005, 1:00 PM
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Just read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. It was pretty good. Before that I read The Da Vinci Code and Atlas Shrugged, the second best book ever.
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