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• Cybernetics
• Technology entrepreneurship
• Intelligence
• Future of computing
• Text editors
• Math basics

These links and books are what I recommend a software engineer to read. They cover a broad range of subjects from history of the software industry to deep technical issues. Sometimes Russian and English-language materials are mixed.

Italic denotes a link to another list.

Books

• Programmer's stone [Flibusta] (Alan Carter, Colston Sanger) — о мышлении программиста
• Steve Yegge's Ten Challenges
• How to be a programmer
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
• Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
• The Top 9½ In a Hacker’s Bookshelf
• Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science
• Apprenticeship patterns by D. Hoover

Articles and sites

General

• 10 commandments of successful software development [local copy]
• Programmer achievements (Russian)
• Software Carpentry: programming for scientists
• Softpanorama: Open Source Software Self-education
• Stallman on hacking
• Signs that you are a bad programmer
• 97 thinks every software architect should know

Tools

• Vim book
• Learn Vimscript the hard way by Steve Losh
• Practical Vim

Startups

• Ultimate productivity blog
• Hacker News

Russian materials

• Теоретический минимум программиста (English translation)
• Книги, которые стоит читать в IT
• Рекомендации Ильи Разенштейна (алгоритмы, матлогика)

Other topics

Meta

• How to read a book by Adler, Doren
• Как заниматься самообразованием

История интернета

• В России

Computer history

• ★ Pioneers of Soviet Computing
• ★ ОГАС (Nationwide automated information accounting and analysis system)
• ★ ДЕМОС-ДВК: Soviet UNIX
• The Tools for Thought — history of personal computer

Psychology

• Человеческое уклонение Силии Грин (The Human Evasion by Celia Green)
• The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself
• Духовная психология Дж.Г. Беннетта
• Psychology of UX

Dance

• Перевод Натьяшастры на русский язык