/lit/ - Literature

>Oh, so it sucks just because *you* don't like it?

How do you respond to this?

>Network+
Sounds like you're getting into I.T., not computer science.
That's like the difference between car repair and car design.
Nevertheless, if your intent is to get into compsci, here are the fundamental texts that most people don't bother to read, but would supercharge your journey:
• The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena
Covers an incredibly wide swath of useful algorithms
• See MIPS Run by Dominic Sweetman
The vast majority of programmers have no idea how their software interacts with the actual hardware.
This book covers an obsolete processor line, but the fundamentals of the pipeline, instruction stages, and instruction throughput/latency are still relevant.
• Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines
So many people make GUIs without the slightest idea of the fundamentals of human-computer interaction.
This book was released in 1993, but it still has no peer.
• C++ Concurrency In Action: Practical Multithreading by Anthony Williams
We've reached the limit of how much faster we can make the hardware.
The only option is to use multiple processor cores.
Most programmers can't think beyond operating-system methods of concurrency, e.g. mutexes and conditions.
But atomic-operations allow for far higher performance, i.e. no expensive user-space-to-kernel-space transitions.

Take this advice to heart, and you'll be in the top .1% of programmers.

>>21847258
Sîn-lēqi-unninni

does reading make you smarter

>>20628985
Ecclesiasties.

>>20315136
The only historical event kids know about anymore is the Holocaust.

>>20236889
Shit. I was thinking of x-rays and no the x-ray machine

A (neo?)platonist/ic critique/analysis of advaita vedanta and Adi Shankara please?

How the fuck do you guys read philosophy it's so hard

>>19747245
One way to learn is from your own experiences, another way to learn is from OTHER PEOPLES experiences. Reading is the best way to tap into other peoples experiences.

I'm getting a BA in English. I'm 26 and taking 6 classes a year because I work full-time. On the bright side I will be debt free but on the other hand I will be 34 before I finally get my degree.

>Dissolution of the ego
>We are one
>Union with the One/Everything/Tao/Absolute

I'm fucking tired of hearing this 24/7 in all spiritual/esoteric/religious paths, so far I have only found 2 authors who don't try to kill their sense of Self to become braindead animals, that is Nimrod de Rosario and Julius Evola

Any other authors like these ?

...Right?

OK bros I need to learn like 400 years of british and american literature for tomorrow. Give me the quick rundown. From neoclassicism to post-modernism

>>19066095
>>19066338
Why is it ok for these big brained philosophers to make these childish personal attacks that have nothing with the argument but when i do it it's a fallacy and everyone laughs at me?

Henlo dear anons, recommend me books about how society might look from near to distant future. I mean, not centered in spaceship wars or something like that but superior conscientiousness, socioeconomic models, etc.
Currently reading Last and First Men.

>>18021762
23 year old here
Read all five volumes of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in one month marathon only to find out that Academic Agent BTFO that dusty old book with his 100 best economics books. Damn good read would enjoy again even though it isn't money making genius anymore it's personally developing.

>He doesn't read, write letters and converse fluently in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, French, German, Italian and Russian
You know you would have been considered handicapped before the 20th century, right?

>>16814572
Right on the money

>go

>Audio book on 2x speed
>2 books a day average
>730 books a year
>3650 books in 5 years
Has technology finally made possible being educated with no effort?

>>16165195
Yeah Arendt is a more complex one I'll admit.

Obviously her relationship with Heidegger (which even post-war was romantic) calls into question how glued to the regime she was. Plus I've heard her Eichman in Jerusalem book is actually sympathetic to young Nazis.

However, all that being said, Arendt did codify the origins of totalitarianism. Which for the elite totalitarianism just means opposition to Liberal Hegemony. So Arendt was able to single out state, paternalism, nationalism and anti-Semitism - whether on the left or right - is a red flag for totalitarianism.

She focused a ton on the refugee and immigrant in her analysis of citizenship which is pretty unique. For the first time in political philosophy the minority was put to the forefront of the political analysis as opposed to the majority or the society.

She's a mixed bag but that definitely influenced Neoliberalism. She was also a Zionist Liberal. Feel free to point me out as wrong wherever.