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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)

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C++ High Performance: Master the art of optimizing the functioning of your C++ code, 2nd Edition

by Bjorn Andrist

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Book cover for The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson

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If you go to the library and there’s a book you cannot understand, you have to dig down and say, “What is the foundation required for me to learn this?”

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“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time”
― Michael Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code

tags: programming

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“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

tags: programming

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“Legacy code. The phrase strikes disgust in the hearts of programmers. It conjures images of slogging through a murky swamp of tangled undergrowth with leaches beneath and stinging flies above. It conjures odors of murk, slime, stagnancy, and offal. Although our first joy of programming may have been intense, the misery of dealing with legacy code is often sufficient to extinguish that flame.”
― Michael Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code

tags: legacy-code, programming

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“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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“At a deep level, all code is about communication: expressing ideas about what you want to achieve.”
― Jon Skeet

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