Computers


If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Source Code: My Beginnings
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Quantum Supremacy
Red Team Blues (Martin Hench, #1)
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
The C Programming Language
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Steve Jobs
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Introduction to Algorithms
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Windows 11 by Allan FaringtonPython Handbook For Beginners. A Hands-On Crash Course For Ki... by Roman GurbanovIntroduction to System Design by Shivam    SinghThe Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. KernighanCompilers by Alfred V. Aho
Computer Science Books
15 books — 47 voters
The STREAM TONE by T. GillingDigicrimination – Those are the Good Times by H.Okan TansuSteve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonHow to Build a Computer by John Gower IIIHow to Spot Scams Online by John Gower III
Technology Books
23 books — 20 voters

Personal Days by Ed     ParkThe Guy Not Taken by Jennifer WeinerTwitterpated by Melanie JacobsonDouble-Click for Trouble by Chris WoodworthEntr@pment by Michael Spooner
Computer Keyboards
18 books — 4 voters

The Guy Next Door by Meg CabotHe Typed. She Typed. by Mark Van WyePlay It Again, SAHM by Meredith EfkenLove @ First Site by Jane MooreThe Cubicle Next Door by Siri L. Mitchell
Desks
31 books — 8 voters
Web Hacking Arsenal by Rafay BalochHackers by Steven LevyMasters of Doom by David KushnerIntroduction to System Design by Shivam    SinghThe Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Best Books on Computing
84 books — 104 voters


Thomas Pynchon
If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths? ...more
Thomas Pynchon, Vineland

Jaron Lanier
The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by well-meaning Freudians and Marxists - and I don't mean that in a pejorative way. I'm thinking of the earliest incarnations of Marxism, for instance, before Stalinism and Maoism killed millions. Movements associated with Freud and Marx both claimed foundations in rationality and the scientific understanding of the world. Both perceived themselves to be at war with the ...more
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget

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