Astro Hacker News - Software Internals Book Club

ryanar |next [-]

This is so neat, as Phil mentioned in the How to run a software bookclub post, out of a group of 500, only 1-2%, 5-10 people may contribute with comments. But he lets the group grow in size because it is minimal overhead and many "lurkers" say they really appreciate reading the comments and get a lot out of it.

I am left wondering is there any way to see past comments on book discussions? I would love to read the discussions as I go through a book already done by the club on my own.

tolerance |next |previous [-]

People like me may be more interested in this blog post:

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-05-30-how-i-run-book-clubs....

ungut |next |previous [-]

Lol, requires LinkedIn and can't parse valid email addresses. This is what senior+ software development looks like.

sudb |root |parent [-]

Famously valid email address parsing is far from trivial[1] - I wouldn't be so quick to judge!

1. https://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

ozgrakkurt |next |previous [-]

It looks amazing as a reading list. I am also reading the OS book by Tanenbaum since the three piece book got very boring after a bit of reading

sdevonoes |root |parent |next [-]

Weird. I got bored with the Tanenbaum books (because they are very abstract and theoretical). The 3 piece book OS was very refreshing and I actually learned stuff

ofrzeta |root |parent |next |previous [-]

The Stallings book is very good.

ozgrakkurt |root |parent [-]

I found it mentions too many out of context things. I’m not in a position to judge if it is technically good

vjay15 |root |parent |previous [-]

I remember reading Tanenbaum, the dino book right? It is amazing

ozgrakkurt |root |parent [-]

Dino book is written by someone else. Also found that one boring

rdevilla |next |previous [-]

This is great. I sort of feel a lack of fora for discussing technical books over a longer lifetime than merely say, the HN front page.

While there is a very good selection of readings, it's unfortunate that both LinkedIn and Google are being used here, especially if the discussion is text-only.

clumsysmurf |next |previous [-]

"High Performance Browser Networking"

I wish there was an update to this book, reading it a while back I think it covered some proposed HTTP/2 features but definitely not HTTP/3.

Many of the issues discussed had to do with TCP itself.

globalnode |next |previous [-]

I would love to see a maths version of this bookclub

LPisGood |previous [-]

Well I don’t have Linkedin so that’s a shame. The idea is very good.

simonw |root |parent |next [-]

I expect if you use www.linkedin.com/i-do-not-have-linkedin as the URL Phil will let you in anyway.

ndneighbor |root |parent |next [-]

confirmed

(I help host nycsystems w/ Phil- we don't mind, just an easier way to know who is who other than email)

LPisGood |root |parent |previous [-]

I wonder if someone could be arrested for gaining unauthorized access to a computer system via fraud under US law for doing that.

ornornor |root |parent [-]

What? How?

tardedmeme |root |parent [-]

The computer fraud and abuse act is extremely broad to the point of absurdity.

jruohonen |root |parent |previous [-]

My sentiment too: a nice idea worth supporting but the execution has something to improve. In addition to LinkedIn:

   "All discussion is via a Google Group."