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Just saw "Sniff Petrol’s wonderfully interesting book of boring car facts: A review" in Ars Technica [0] and remembered how I enjoyed Nine Pints (a book about blood, [1]) and The Box (history of shipping containers, [2]).

I would love to hear about the best books you've read that cover some interesting topic!

Thanks!

[0] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/05/if-you-like-weird-car-trivia-youll-love-sniff-petrols-new-book/, [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38232376-nine-pints, [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316767.The_Box

Title says it all. I've got lots of experience with Vue and front-end in general, but need to learn React.

I'm gonna go through the official tutorial [0] and step-by-step guide [1] but I'm more than sure those will not completely satisfy me.

What else?

Please note: I DON'T need to learn web dev in general. I know HTML/CSS/JS and the current ecosystem.

:)

Thanks a lot!

[0] https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html [1] https://reactjs.org/docs/hello-world.html

I would like to grab a book on compilers but am not sure which one to choose.

The Dragon book (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools) is the one that gets recommended everywhere but that doesn't always mean it's the best. I find that many people recommend books they've actually not read and/or they haven't read anything else on the subject which makes it a bit tough to say the one they're familiar with is the best.

Some have said the dragon book is unbalanced in content and for instance Modern Compiler Implementation in ML is better in that.

What is your opinion? Can you recommend some book over another one?

Also: I'm not sure if a 800 page brick is the best to get yourself familiar with ... anything(?). I'm most certainly sure the book I'm looking for doesn't have to cover every tiny little detail that could be useful to know every 0.000001 % of time.

Thanks!

Hello

I'm changing VPS providers and I have a couple of options. I can have the VPS located in either Frankfurt or Helsinki. Frankfurt gives me ~40 ms and Helsinki ~5 ms latencies.

I'm planning to move some of my development to the VPS and would like to know your opinion about a tolerable latency. This is of course very subjective, but any experience would be very appreciated. Like is 35 ms a total turn-off in your opinion or something like that.

I will of course try them before committing to anything, but I usually believe it's hard to make a reasonable decision on things like these in a short testing period (then again, if the performance is obviously intolerable, then it is and that's that).

I use SSH, tmux and vim.

Thank you a lot!

I would like to know your recommendation for a tool to track what you've learned this day/week/month etc.

Some sort of a service where you could easily write notes about the stuff you came accross while developing something.

For instance if I find a very useful link that shows me the correct way to do something, I would like to write that down somewhere with a simple explanation using my own words.

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In a response to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10639359, I ask you to post your recommendation(s) for JS dev tooling.

Please, do not just drop a link but explain why you're recommending it.

I'm looking for a good introduction to stocks book. Something clear, well-written, but still not too simple. It doesn't have to be a text-book of any sorts, just that it's fun and enjoyable to read and, of course, gets everything straight. I googled around and found multiple lists of books yet none of the arguments for them made me buy one. It seems like there are too many options to choose from, and it's not clear what is for beginners and what is not.

What I want: to understand how the whole stock market works in principal and what are the major things one should know in order to understand IPOs, stock plummeting etc. better.

I don't need to get into stocks, I'm not planning to invest in anything. I just want to understand the whole thing.

Thank you a lot!

So I'm looking for a tool, presumably a webapp, that could track the dates of next bill, domain and certification expiration, and such, for many websites.

This can be done in a spreadsheet, of course, but is there something shinier for the purpose? Of course you'd need to add the details yourself, but then you'd get a complete view of the upcoming events easily.

This doesn't even have to have anything to do with websites - could be just a general app for the same purpose. I can add the cert expiry dates, the app doesn't have to look them for me.