[HN Gopher] The Best Things and Stuff of 2021
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The Best Things and Stuff of 2021
Author : bvaldivielso
Score : 160 points
Date : 2021-12-27 14:25 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| yawn wrote:
| I love it when this comes up in the rss feed. I wish more folks
| did these!
| mixedmath wrote:
| I like this list. In a time when there are many listicals and
| claimed "curated" collections that are little more than lists of
| affiliate links, I find value in actual curated lists with actual
| opinions.
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| It helps that I think many things mentioned are interesting, but
| I haven't heard of.
| kbenson wrote:
| If you haven't seen them, you'll probably like past years lists
| as well as the discussions here about them as well.
|
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
| mikejulietbravo wrote:
| "10 times lists drove me absolutely insane, number 7 will blow
| your mind!"
| cinntaile wrote:
| I have heard some conflicting opinions on one of the books you
| mentioned. Software Design for Flexibility How to Avoid
| Programming Yourself into a Corner. Most seem to dislike it, but
| you have the complete opposite opinion. Why do you think that is?
| fogus wrote:
| I can't speak for others but for myself I love that the
| techniques described are very unconventional.
| poulsbohemian wrote:
| Those Inside Macintosh books were the best! I was a very lucky
| teen to have had a few, which unfortunately completely tainted my
| perspective on quality documentation.
| uxp100 wrote:
| Last year this post tipped me off to 18xx.games, which I had a
| lot of fun exploring.
|
| (Also I suspect they listen to the weird studies podcast, what
| with the Ishmael Reed and Doris Lessing)
| fogus wrote:
| I'm glad that you find the joys of 18XX games through my list.
| I had a regular game group pre-pandemic and spent a lot of time
| with them. There's nothing like them in tabletop gaming.
|
| Your insight about Weird Studies is spot on. In hindsight I
| should have a Favorite Podcasts section too since I've spent
| more time listening to them in the past year than ever. WS
| would definitely be at the top.
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| https://www.weirdstudies.com
| litmus wrote:
| Great to see Herzog on the list. Highly recommend "Werner Herzog,
| A Guide for the Perplexed", which is a great collection of
| musings in his own words about life and art, including various
| anecdotes related to both. Probably one of my favorite books in
| recent times.
| ohg wrote:
| I don't think Fisher would be particularly happy with his writing
| being described as neo-liberal! The rest of the list was
| interesting though.
| fogus wrote:
| Rereading that sentence I can see how it could be read as
| applying to Fisher's book but it was the world passed through a
| neoliberal filter that I attempted to describe.
| amrox wrote:
| Can anyone elaborate on "Stop: Modern C++" under 2021 Tech Radar?
| fogus wrote:
| I can elaborate. I used to do a lot of C++ early in my career
| -- pre-Boost days. I recently explored the post-Boost landscape
| to see if there was something worth pursuing (for me) and
| decided that I wasn't satisfied with that as an option.
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