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Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books, Movies, Documentaries and Shows From This Year That You Liked and Recommend To Others?

Posted by msmash on from the let's-get-going dept.

As we prepare to end the year, several readers have suggested we asked one another about the things we liked. We encourage everyone to participate.

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  1. Clean Code by Robert C. Martin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I read this after over a decade of software development. Despite already following a number of good practices and writing functional code sans a bug here and there, my code has markedly changed and has become easier to read and test.

  2. "Homo Deus" by Yuval Harari by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Homo Deus is a powerfully insightful book that brings down the curtain on modern man and contemplates the species that will replace us, some sort of artificially-evolved, highly-augmented, post-human organism. When our descendants are indistinguishable from Gods, their motivation becomes a matter of great importance.Harari asks the profound question: "What do we want to want?" This is a dazzlingly brilliant book.

  3. Orphan Black by jmccue · · Score: 4, Interesting

    BBC America's Orphan Black. The series ended this year, if you never heard of it, best you watch the first few episodes of Season 1 before you look to see what is is about. All I will say it is a SIFI type series that what goes on in it is either possible now or will be in the near future.

  4. The Genius (South Korea) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Genius (South Korea) is probably the smartest television show I've ever seen. They did four seasons from 2013 to 2015. Each season, 13 players (many minor celebrities/presenters, some non-celebrities) are brought in to play social/intellectual games (no physical challenges or stunts. It's all about how smart you are and how social you are.) Each week, they play one Main Match, where there are one or more winners and one or more losers (and everyone else, who are neither winners nor losers that week.) Out of the losers, one is chosen as the Elimination Candidate, who picks one of the non-winners to compete against in the Death Match, a 1v1 game that sends the loser out of the competition.

    A very nice lady who goes by the nickname Bumdidlyumptious subtitled all four seasons. Most of her episodes recently got taken down from DailyMotion but you can easily find download links for episodes on Reddit. Here's her YouTube Season 1 playlist (her stuff is still up on YouTube):

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9suu7e7YWZ0rw06g9_cOi_cnzpeXeUCc

    Season 1, Episode 7 (Open Pass Game) probably has the greatest 3 minutes of television I've ever seen.

    Zero chance they ever make anything like it here in the US because we are idiots who cannot have nice things.