book list: hack.summit() 2016

Must Reads from hack.summit() 2016 — Medium

• Structured Programming by Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
• The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works by Ash Maurya
• Patents of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
• Defeat into Victory by Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim
• Information Doesn’t Want to be Free by Cory Doctorow

TypeScript 2: end of 'null' and 'undefined'

Authors of TypeScript are determined to 'fix' '$ billion' error of adding 'null' to programming languages by replacing them with better features...

Anders Hejlsberg on TypeScript 2 | Seth Juarez | Channel 9

TypeScript blog @ MSDN

TypeScript - JavaScript that scales.

TypeScript 2.0 Preview @ InfoQ

Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake @ InfoQ
"Tony Hoare introduced Null references in ALGOL W back in 1965 “simply because it was so easy to implement”, says Mr. Hoare. He talks about that decision considering it “my billion-dollar mistake”."