The Extended Phenotype:The Long Reach of the Gene, another author's book is also very interesting.
Althought the book might include too expert knowledge, the core idea is simple as such it can be explained in the book's title.
To think what the idea implies caltivate our view of world.
I like ramen, but I am careful about frequency of eating ramen.
It is known among Japanese that extreme ramen freaks have short life.
We Japanese maybe tend to be salt addicted.
So careful people eat soup moderately.
I think you shouldn't take these specific rules as a general advise.
Don't use your hands directly untill you are sure your hands clean. Even most Japanese don't do that.
And a rules imposed by a restaurant may be acceptable but a rules imposed by you to your acompanies are often uncomfortable.
Japanese calls such kind of people "x-bugyo(奉行)" (e.g. nabe-bugyo, sushi-bugyo) as irony. bugyo means a person in a high position in Japan's feudal period.
Negative comments based on reason are the reason why I keep checking HN comments. Those comments are valuable because trade offs are rarely shown than benefits. However those interesting comments are often downvoted with spinal reflex.
Although I haven't developed hardware, I feel that hardware development suffers from rigidity.
Is there noticeable progress of development not manufacturing in last 10 years?
It seems that hardware developers often complain about VHDL and Verilog while continue to use them because they are only actual options vendors support.
I found netlist format such as EDIF seems assembly language for hardware, but I also heared that vendors need to produce their own custom netlist from souce of VHDL or Verilog.
I suspect that processors could evolved more than pace of Moore's law if tools have accumulated developer's creativity.