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Muscles
06/17/20 9:47:40 PM
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For your enjoyment, not for school, work, etc.

I just finished Sphere and Crichton is a great author, one of my favorites now

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Lokarin
06/17/20 9:48:26 PM
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Chuck Tingle - Slammed in the butt by my handsome detergent pod

Yes, for real.

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Metalsonic66
06/17/20 9:50:12 PM
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Sphere was one of my favorite Crichton books. Kept me turning the pages.

I just bought Rising Sun but haven't read it yet. Still in the middle of State of Fear

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MrMelodramatic
06/17/20 9:50:40 PM
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I read What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Bukowski, but thatsa book of poems.

last novel I read was The Unbearable Lightness of Being byMilan Kundera

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Mead
06/17/20 9:51:03 PM
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The Age of Reason by Thomas Payne

had it lying on a shelf since college and decided to actually read it

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Sahuagin
06/17/20 10:05:21 PM
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I don't read fiction very often

the most recent thing I'm reading is Language Implementation Patterns

the most recent thing I've finished was The Clean Coder

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Judgmenl
06/17/20 10:08:47 PM
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Beneath the Raptor's Wing a few year ago but the author's righting style focused too heavy on techno-bable. I had started reading the Welcome to the NHK light novel earlier this year, but I don't have the time to read. I'd love to get into some light novels or manga for series I really enjoyed (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Nichijou, Hitori Bocchi) but it's a big time investment and I'd prefer physical manga over scanlations.

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EclairReturns
06/17/20 10:20:30 PM
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I most recently read these three books, in no particular order:

1. Calculus - Early Transcendentals by Guichard (lots of typos, but sufficient for calculus review)
2. Practical Web-Scraping for Data Science by Broucke and Baesens (for web-scraping project)
3. A Primer for Scientific Programming by Langtangen (for teaching myself basic [scientific] programming in Python)


Sahuagin posted...
The Clean Coder


Is that written for any particular language, I imagine, in order to compare 'messy code' to 'clean code'?
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Judgmenl
06/17/20 10:27:42 PM
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EclairReturns posted...
Is that written for any particular language, I imagine, in order to compare 'messy code' to 'clean code'?
Not familiar with that book, but many languages have an "idiomatic" way of using the language. Like Python has The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python and Go has Effective Go. Once you get to more wide-spread enterprise languages like Java you have many different hands in what is and isn't idiomatic Java (FYI: I hate Java, awful language and I don't know what idiomatic Java even looks like).

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InfestedAdam
06/17/20 10:33:00 PM
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo.

As a hoarder I keep far too much stuff out of sentimental reasons (i.e. old homework from 20+ years ago), I do feel she brings up a lot of good points in regards to decluttering. Stuff that I have not bother looking for or needed in several years probably can safely be tossed out.

EDIT: See how bad I am? I said I can probably should toss out items I have not looked at in several years instead just admitting I should toss such items out.

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dragon504
06/17/20 10:34:44 PM
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Pretty sure it was "My Side of the Mountain". Was quite a while ago. Never finished the 10th book in the Malazan main series. Have another fantasy series to read, but haven't gotten around to starting it yet.

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wwinterj25
06/17/20 10:35:01 PM
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Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks.

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Lokarin
06/17/20 10:51:01 PM
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InfestedAdam posted...
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo.

I gave this to my bro a couple years ago... not sure if he read it

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helIy
06/17/20 11:06:07 PM
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i'm just waiting for dresden 16

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CaptainStrong
06/17/20 11:10:30 PM
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Never have unless manga counts.
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blu
06/17/20 11:11:06 PM
#16:


Early retirement extreme
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Mead
06/17/20 11:19:33 PM
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CaptainStrong posted...
Never have unless manga counts.

youve never read a book?

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dragon504
06/17/20 11:19:51 PM
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helIy posted...
i'm just waiting for dresden 16

I always forget to check for those at the bookstore. I did see that they had 2-7 of the Dark Tower Series though. Maybe I'll see about getting those next time.

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ChimeraBlue
06/17/20 11:27:13 PM
#19:


Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.

Loved it.
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AwesomeTurtwig
06/17/20 11:28:26 PM
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A ballad of songbirds and snakes. Finished it last week.

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ChaosAzeroth
06/17/20 11:30:22 PM
#21:


Stephen King's latest book If It Bleeds.

The first two stories I loved, the last two I liked but didn't love as much.
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ChimeraBlue
06/17/20 11:31:31 PM
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CaptainStrong posted...
Never have unless manga counts.

Not even Harry Potter or Twilight?
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LOUDDOG777
06/17/20 11:36:50 PM
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Brain Droppings by George Carlin

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TheWitchMorgana
06/17/20 11:42:52 PM
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i don't read that many book-books, but the last visual novel was ciconia when they cry. which did not really do it for me the way umineko did but still pretty good

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CaptainStrong
06/18/20 12:12:45 AM
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Mead posted...
youve never read a book?
I did when I was forced to in school. Books bore the shit out of me.

ChimeraBlue posted...
Not even Harry Potter or Twilight?
Nope.
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JoeDangIt
06/18/20 12:23:52 AM
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If I ever read a full book I don't remember it.
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Sahuagin
06/18/20 3:08:17 AM
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EclairReturns posted...
Is that written for any particular language, I imagine, in order to compare 'messy code' to 'clean code'?
it's language-independent mostly. Robert C. Martin has three "Clean" books: Clean Code, Clean Architecture, and The Clean Coder.

Clean Code is actually about "comparing messy code to clean code". IIRC almost all of the examples are Java, but still the advice works for any language.

Clean Architecture is focused on higher-level organization of software systems. It basically works its way up to Hexagonal Architecture (which is like the awesomest thing ever and I can't believe I only learned about it like ~9 months ago), but he doesn't go into very much detail. (This book I feel could have had a whole other section leading the reader through a full implementation of a Hexagonal system.) (He does say that Hexagonal is only one example of a clean architecture though. I haven't learned others yet, but Hexagonal is my favorite at the moment.)

The Clean Coder focuses on being a professional ("clean") employee rather that being directly applicable to code. Things like, don't agree to deadlines you obviously can't make; it's your responsibility to inform management of the true nature of the situation; make sure you don't lose control of your codebase (keep it tested at all times); etc.

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JixHedgehog
06/18/20 4:56:16 AM
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10 Little Ladybugs

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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC
06/18/20 5:27:03 AM
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I'm in the the process of reading The Time of Contempt, the second Witcher novel. So far I'm loving it.

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TheWorstPoster
06/18/20 5:29:39 AM
#30:


What's a "book"?
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Clench281
06/18/20 5:41:15 AM
#31:


Last read There There. Didn't enjoy it.

Currently reading Superior, and then Talking with Strangers is next on my list

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SpaceBear_
06/18/20 5:42:30 AM
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Animal Farm

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SunWuKung420
06/18/20 6:44:53 AM
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The Black Box by Michael Connelly

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zebatov
06/18/20 7:45:57 AM
#34:


Agamemnon.

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Alex1976
06/18/20 7:51:44 AM
#35:


Recently finished reading The Iliad by Homer.

If it wasn't for the coronavirus pandemic delaying some things, I would have gotten my copy of Meg: Generations by Steve Alten about now - gotta wait another month instead.

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KJ StErOiDs
06/18/20 8:28:38 AM
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Sail by James Patterson

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captpackrat
06/18/20 12:34:11 PM
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Currently reading The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht.


Before that I read The Green Ember by S. D. Smith, The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper, Daring Do and the Marked Thief of Marapore, by A. K. Yearling with G. M. Berrow, and The Decline and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer


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Action53
06/18/20 12:41:20 PM
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Surving Russian winters by Balzar Frozenov

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darcandkharg31
06/18/20 12:51:42 PM
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Dragons of Spring Dawning


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Greenfox111
06/18/20 12:58:41 PM
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Ive been reading The Pillars of the Earth. Before that was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

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blackhrt
06/19/20 1:26:24 PM
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Chess for Beginners - IA Horowitz

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teddy241
06/19/20 2:48:32 PM
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in soviet Russia, Books Read YOU
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pedro45
06/19/20 3:53:02 PM
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It was Utopia or Lethal Velocity; first released as Utopia.
Now I'm reading The Left Hand of Darkness. I'll read the second (movie) Star Wars next.

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Zacek
06/19/20 3:54:28 PM
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The Legend of Dragon Quest.

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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC
06/21/20 8:10:14 AM
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Just finished The Time of Contempt, the second Witcher novel. That was a wholly depressing ending. Did Sapkowski hate Ciri in the beginning or something?

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BUMPED2002
06/21/20 8:32:22 AM
#46:


Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.

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captpackrat
06/21/20 10:42:33 AM
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Just finished The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht. Now I'm starting Ember Falls by S. D. Smith. It's the second book of the Green Ember series.

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tmac666
06/21/20 1:10:39 PM
#48:


Goosebumps, a long fucking time ago.
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SpeeDLeemon
06/21/20 1:13:46 PM
#49:


A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit

If you like philosophy, art, culture, thinking, nature, etc; read it
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