What are some /g/-approved books and short stories?
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currently reading this
>>53702860
>>53702935
>communist manifesto: autism edition
no thanks
>>53702935
reading 3.0 now :^)
>>53702935
I've actually read how Stallmanu became the severely broken parrot he is today. TL;DR his university friends all got jobs writing "harmful" software which left richard without anyone to copy off of. thus began his 30 year effort to create a community of directionless social loafing in the software industry
>>53702860
I'm a connoisseur desu
This one inspired me to pick up programming physics simulators as a hobby http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/
also this ones are cool https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the_lifecycle_of_software_objects_by_ted_chiang http://karpathy.github.io/2015/11/14/ai/
>>53702860
by gibson (and not mentioned in the thread yet):
mona lisa overdrive
burning chrome
virtual light
(downhill after here)
by stephenson (and not mentioned in the thread yet) :
snow crash
part one of hackers by steven levy is good
>>53703610
>(downhill after there)
is that so? i'm rather enjoying his work after those, although since pattern recognition. admittedly, it has gotten a lot different though.
Nuromancer:
Some temps merge some data.
>>53703660
at idoru it started to go weird.
i thought pattern recognition, spook country and zero history were shit.
i haven't read the peripheral yet.
>>53703146
i loved this, even though i had to check his glossary every page.
really put my mind in a completely different area of thinking
>>53703442
how was it anon?
>>53703352
>worthy successor to William Gibson
lol, no. His books are pretty good though.
https://www.defcon.org/html/links/book-list.html
most of it is dated, but the fiction is still good.
>>53703039
>gdb
>gcc
>emacs
>loafing
Peripheral is crasy, worth a read.
Just finished this. It's a chronicle of Mitnick's escapades. The tricks this guy pulled off are insane. Highly recommended.
>>53703232
The Lifecycle of Software Objects is nice and very /g/, but not Ted Chiang's best I find. His masterpiece so far is "Story of your Life". Also "Understand", "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", "Hell is the Absence of God" are close behind.
>>53704216
It's actually bretty good. It also talks about his relationship with wozniak.
>>53704216
I listened to it on Audible on my way to and from work. It was actually a solid book.
I might be showing my age.
>>53705411
Based on your inability to get an image that isn't for ants you're either too old or too young to be on the internet.
>>53703110
>>53703146
Everything Egan writes is interesting as hell
spam nation by Brian krebs
There's a audio book too
>>53703177
>>53703442
>>53703610
Ugh, Neal Stephenson. Would you recommend me his other books despite the fact that I tried reading the Cyptonomicon and found it too shit to finish?
I expected good storytelling around cryptography. All I got was war, clinical autism, and poor dramatization of biographies that I already know 1000 times over. Thanks, and war stories aren't exactly my cup of tea.
When he does get into crypto, it's pretty laughable (the geniuses in the book have this technique, "for every encrypted mail you send me, also give me a long decryption key literally over the phone", I shit you not).
>>53702860
>Prison door key on thefloor but you don't know how to use it
>>53705411
so long and thanks for all the fish. I read it in high school, only kind of /g/ related but more to do with british humour.
>And when I moved the newspaper... were MY biscuits.
>took me over a day to figure out they use the word biscuits like that (where the fuck can I buy a bag of biscuits)
>>53705611
snow crash and diamond age are genuinely good.
i couldn't finish cryptonomicon either, and i believe it's all downhill after that one.
the code book by simon singh is good if you want to read about crypto.
>crtl+f
>no Revelation Space
it might not be fully /g/-related but damn...
>>53705611
I read Cyptonomicon years ago and didn't really like it.
Reading Snow Crash right now and it's pretty good.
>>53705623
Wew, looks like some real schizophrenic-tier new age scripture right there. Nice find.
>the official /csg/ book
>>53702860
>short stories
Copping Squid
and
Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre
which I recently read in this collection:
https://0x0.st/PrU.epub
