I've been pining for some good books or articles on programming that I can read while I'm away from a computer and still get value out of. Every now and then I find a good one on the front page of Hacker News, eg the Functional Reactive Programming intro [0], but I want <i>more</i>. Any suggestions?<p>0: https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754
Read about the life and works of Alan Turing [1]. Not only did he do seminal work for invention of general purpose computer, he actually went on to study the limitations of this <i>theoretical</i> computer even before it became a practical reality. Every time you see a captcha, recall that CAPTCHA = Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.<p>[1]: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing</a>