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Another good one is "Whitespace is Not Your Enemy" by Golimbsky. But you are right, one big no-no is picking half a dozen different fonts for some project just because they look cool.

We have modified this tool to remove capacity more slowly and added safeguards to prevent capacity from being removed when it will take any subsystem below its minimum required capacity level

Yeah, they have apparently made this screw up much harder to repeat.

Like this, perhaps?

There is an updated Dragon Book. Looks like it was published in 06 and still has a dragon on the cover.

> I thought that industry primarily used the Quadro line

It really depends on your needs.

For game developers, the artists are probably using Quadro's and programmers the non-Quadro's (GTX) to better match the _actual_ specs of the gamers. i.e. You can probably count on one hand the number of gamers with a Quadro card.

Prices due to VRAM options are all over the place for the Quadro line. Notice how nVidia doesn't list prices on the Quadro line.

If you're doing Modelling / CAD such as Maya / Max / SolidWorks / etc. then yeah, you're probably using a Quadro since the Quadro's prices are a drop in the (price) bucket -- relatively speaking. i.e. The M6000 with 24 GB of VRAM is selling on Amazon for $4,529.00 -- which is *already* discounted !

If not then Quadro's are hideously expensesive (significantly north of $1K) for the "rest of us". i.e. The Quadro P6000 has (had?) a MSRP of $7,000. The average gamer doesn't really "need" more then 6 GB VRAM.

It is kind of like F1 cars. They cost a fortune due to limited supply and demand but technology "trickles" down so us "mere mortals" can afford it. A rule-of-thumb for /oblg. PC Master Race is

* get the fastest single card you can afford
* re-sell it every 2~3 years to re-coop costs
* Don't spend more then $1,000 unless you actually _need_ it.

Performance has always been on a exponential curve. Every time you double (*) the cost your performance gains go down by 1/2 (*).

(*) SWAG. These are NOT actually numbers -- I pulled them out of my ass -- I just used them for illustrative purposes.

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Microshat, noun, fucking you over with their crap since Winblows 95 by trying to lock you into proprietary technology that is dead within the decade. i.e. How is that Silverlight and XNA working out guys?

> I thought that industry primarily used the Quadro line

It really depends on your needs.

For game developers, the artists are probably using Quadro's and programmers the non-Quadro's (GTX) to better match the _actual_ specs of the gamers. i.e. You can probably count on one hand the number of gamers with a Quadro card.

Prices due to VRAM options are all over the place for the Quadro line. Notice how nVidia doesn't list prices on the Quadro line.

If you're doing Modelling / CAD such as Maya / Max / SolidWorks / etc. then yeah, you're probably using a Quadro since the Quadro's prices are a drop in the (price) bucket -- relatively speaking. i.e. The M6000 with 24 GB of VRAM is selling on Amazon for $4,529.00 -- which is *already* discounted !

If not then Quadro's are hideously expensesive (significantly north of $1K) for the "rest of us". i.e. The Quadro P6000 has (had?) a MSRP of $7,000. The average gamer doesn't really "need" more then 6 GB VRAM.

It is kind of like F1 cars. They cost a fortune due to limited supply and demand but technology "trickles" down so us "mere mortals" can afford it. A rule-of-thumb for /oblg. PC Master Race is

* get the fastest single card you can afford
* re-sell it every 2~3 years to re-coop costs
* Don't spend more then $1,000 unless you actually _need_ it.

Performance has always been on a exponential curve. Every time you double (*) the cost your performance gains go down by 1/2 (*).

(*) SWAG. These are NOT actually numbers -- I pulled them out of my ass -- I just used them for illustrative purposes.

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Microshat, noun, fucking you over with their crap since Winblows 95 by trying to lock you into proprietary technology that is dead within the decade. i.e. How is that Silverlight and XNA working out guys?

Nope just solder a couple of wires to the serial on the board to enable debug, that's about it. If you don't mind doing that? You basically have an Rpi style device with USB and SD card support for $9.

I'd think about getting one for myself but frankly I have an entire bucket filled with Intel Atom netbooks over in the corner so if I need a cheap HTPC or file server? Well ya really can't top $0 and they don't even need a HDD (just boot puppy off an SD Card) so they are completely silent and lets be honest, an Atom dual really doesn't pull enough juice to really worry about the difference between it and an ARM device and with the netbook I can always pop open the lid if I need to do some tweaking.

Their whole says GREEN and "No Recent Events". What a bunch of liars.

"Increased Error Rates" my ass

This will lead to massive lost respect for AWS!

'Fess up, don't be lyin.

AKA "just someone's else computer".

This outage is being going for over an hour now but, according to Amazon, their services are green all across the board with "increased error rates". Almost feels like they're trying to cheat out their own SLAs.

Even the best on-screen keyboard on a phablet phone is not as good as a physical keyboard.

You might want to look into something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Wireles...

Probably not as convenient, nor as good, as a keyboard built into the phone, and there may be security issues as well. But it might be worth considering for those times when only a physical keyboard will do. Plus you also have the option of using it with a tablet if the need arises. Sucks to have to charge it separately though.

https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Fat...
"Many of us have long been told that fat makes us fat, contributes to heart disease, and generally erodes our health. Now a growing body of research is debunking our fat-phobia, revealing the immense health and weight-loss benefits of a high-fat diet rich in eggs, nuts, oils, avocados, and other delicious super-foods."

Don't forget your veggies though!!! And there are many plant sources of protein and fat...

Most plant sources of fats and proteins are also full of carbohydrates, putting them in the same position.

Another good book is "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health" by Gary Taubes:

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Ca...

In it, he shows that the research has *always* showed that carbs make you fat, and dietary fat isn't the culprit. Not only research, but a body of circumstantial evidence so huge that it can't be ignored. The linked article here is the sort of circumstantial evidence that I mean: indigenous populations do just fine until western food shows up - first comes obesity and 10 or 20 years later their teeth are falling out and they're all getting diabetes.

https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Fat...
"Many of us have long been told that fat makes us fat, contributes to heart disease, and generally erodes our health. Now a growing body of research is debunking our fat-phobia, revealing the immense health and weight-loss benefits of a high-fat diet rich in eggs, nuts, oils, avocados, and other delicious super-foods."

Don't forget your veggies though!!! And there are many plant sources of protein and fat...

Most plant sources of fats and proteins are also full of carbohydrates, putting them in the same position.

Another good book is "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health" by Gary Taubes:

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Ca...

In it, he shows that the research has *always* showed that carbs make you fat, and dietary fat isn't the culprit. Not only research, but a body of circumstantial evidence so huge that it can't be ignored. The linked article here is the sort of circumstantial evidence that I mean: indigenous populations do just fine until western food shows up - first comes obesity and 10 or 20 years later their teeth are falling out and they're all getting diabetes.

https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Fat...
"Many of us have long been told that fat makes us fat, contributes to heart disease, and generally erodes our health. Now a growing body of research is debunking our fat-phobia, revealing the immense health and weight-loss benefits of a high-fat diet rich in eggs, nuts, oils, avocados, and other delicious super-foods."

Don't forget your veggies though!!! And there are many plant sources of protein and fat...

The numbers come from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Space-E...

Their research is more serious than your unsupported opinion.

Most of the space elevator research assumes that the problems of making long, perfect carbon nanotubes can be solved, that they be made in volume at very low cost, and that they will have an ultimate tensile strength equal to that calculated from theory of perfect carbon, and not one that is the actual measured tensile strength of nanotubes in the real world.

Unfortunately, carbon nanotubes not only have never been made with this theoretical strength, newer work makes it look like they cannot reach this theoretical strength. The pentagons of perfect nanotubes spontaneously convert into pentagons and heptagons under strain, which reduces the breaking stress.
https://www.newscientist.com/a...

Right now, the materials needed to make a low cost space elevator are still in the future. Later materials science may make us revise that estimate, but right now: it's still hard.

Yeah, you can get T-shirts that say 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.

https://www.amazon.com/1984-Wa...

Clearly, psychos in power who never liked the whole democracy thing had a different take.

The numbers come from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Space-E... Their research is more serious than your unsupported opinion.

ViewTool Ginkgo USB to CAN isn't bad. They have drivers and libraries for OS X, Windows and Linux. It has 2 CAN lines and taking it apart they actually separated the CAN side from the USB side on the PCB. (Something not even Vector's CAN boxes do).

It's cheaper than any of the commercial tools.

Dr Hyman's "The Blood Sugar Solution" book mentioned earlier (in a Dr. Fuhrman comment):
http://bloodsugarsolution.com/

One of several books he wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Hy...

A review on his very latest book"Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health":
https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Fat...
"I was a member of Dr. Hyman's beta test group for this book and my results were miraculous. I was an insulin dependent type 2 diabetic with high blood pressure. I have been off all of my medications and have lost about 50 pounds. I have no more heartburn, no more stiff joints and feel like I am 30 years younger. It is truly an amazing book. Words are not enough to express my gratitude to Dr. Hyman for giving me back a healthy life."

His bio:
http://drhyman.com/about-2/abo...

He is director of the Cleveland Clinic for Functional Medicine:
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/...

A related medical practice in MA (great video overview there of the big picture):
http://www.ultrawellnesscenter...

A movie he is in about the societal problem:
http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/h...

Good luck! One thing Dr. Hyman points out is that it helps to get well as part of a community -- it is tough to go it alone. If you can find a buddy or support group to make the health shift with, you are twice as likely to succeed.

Dr Hyman's "The Blood Sugar Solution" book mentioned earlier (in a Dr. Fuhrman comment):
http://bloodsugarsolution.com/

One of several books he wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Hy...

A review on his very latest book"Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health":
https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Fat...
"I was a member of Dr. Hyman's beta test group for this book and my results were miraculous. I was an insulin dependent type 2 diabetic with high blood pressure. I have been off all of my medications and have lost about 50 pounds. I have no more heartburn, no more stiff joints and feel like I am 30 years younger. It is truly an amazing book. Words are not enough to express my gratitude to Dr. Hyman for giving me back a healthy life."

His bio:
http://drhyman.com/about-2/abo...

He is director of the Cleveland Clinic for Functional Medicine:
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/...

A related medical practice in MA (great video overview there of the big picture):
http://www.ultrawellnesscenter...

A movie he is in about the societal problem:
http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/h...

Good luck! One thing Dr. Hyman points out is that it helps to get well as part of a community -- it is tough to go it alone. If you can find a buddy or support group to make the health shift with, you are twice as likely to succeed.

This comment sums up an alternative to the Fuhrman approach that is more fat heavy:
https://www.amazon.com/review/...
" ... based on what I've read and the lectures I've listened to over the last year, I'd say that the low carb, high (healthy) fat, moderate protein (LCHF) diet works for more people with type 2 diabetes than Fuhrman's diet, BUT his diet DOES work well for type 2 diabetics too. Which diet works best for you likely will be influenced by what your ancestors ate. If you enjoy eating grass-fed, pastured meat, free range poultry and eggs, and wild seafood, try the LCHF diet first. If you prefer a whole food, plant-based diet (vegan or vegetarian) try Fuhrman's diet first. Of all the books written on the low carb diet, Mark Hyman's book, The Blood Sugar Solution, is probably the best because it goes into greater detail on all aspects of a healthy diet, not just low carb. ..."

Basically, the "Fat makes you fat" meme (which led to eating lots of refined carbs) has been terrible for our health! Our brains are mostly fat. Healthy fats are an important part of any diet, although we can argue about the best sources of them.

The "Banting diet" (later variant is the Dukan diet) builds on that protein/fat alternative -- but a problem with that approach healthwise is that too much protein and meat from badly raised animals can cause other health issues in the long-term (as well as ethical issues). Of course, it still may be better to get rid of diabetes first anyway you can and then worry about preventing cancer later when you feel better...

I also think Fuhrman is probably low on his iodine and vitamin D recommendations. And his general advice may not be a good match some few people with specific needs from genetics or microbiomes.

In general, Fuhrman's history as a world-class athlete in training may also bias him towards expecting so much that some people give up entirely (so, there is social / psychological aspect of all this that is somehow missed -- perhaps intentionally) whereas they may have done better with a lesser approach. I also agree it is very easy to backslide when only one family member makes the change and is constantly confronted with other people in their space with SAD eating habits.

Another interesting discussion with a specific disagreement with Fuhrman vs. McDougall even within broad agreement:
http://lanimuelrath.com/mcdoug...
"The similarities between these 2 doctors and their dietary approaches are far greater than their differences."

https://www.drfuhrman.com/shop...
"After I was diagnosed with diabetes, my brother recommended I read Dr. Fuhrman's book The End of Diabetes. I started to read it right away and applied what I learned from it to my own life. By the time I was able to see my doctor -- three weeks later -- I had already lost 15 pounds, my blood glucose levels had returned to normal and the doctor said he had planned on putting me on meds but, after reviewing my new numbers, he would hold off for three more months. By that appointment, I had lost a total of 35 pounds, going from 218 to 188 pounds on my 6'1" frame ... I feel great and I never had to go on diabetes medication. My physician is now lowering my blood pressure medication, too. Thank you!!!"

Also see reviews here:
https://www.amazon.com/End-Dia...

Key idea:
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"Scientific evidence suggests that the re-sensitization of taste nerves takes between 30 and 90 days of consistent exposure to less stimulating foods. This means that for several weeks, most people attempting this change will experience a reduction in eating pleasure. This is why modern foods present such a devastating trap--as most of our citizens are, in effect, "addicted" to artificially high levels of food stimulation! The 30-to-90-day process of taste re-calibration requires more motivation-- and more self-discipline -- than most people are ever willing to muster.
    Tragically, most people are totally unaware that they are only a few weeks of discipline away from being able to comfortably maintain healthful dietary habits--and to keep away from the products that can result in the destruction of their health. Instead, most people think that if they were to eat more healthfully, they would be condemned to a life of greatly reduced gustatory pleasure--thinking that the process of Phase IV will last forever. In our new book, The Pleasure Trap, we explain this extraordinarily deceptive and problematic situation -- and how to master this hidden force that undermines health and happiness."

I feel Dr. Fuhrman is slightly wrong about a few of things, but overall he is very right on the big picture and a good place to start. Good luck nomad63!

the second year each has a 50% chance of being the record, the third year every measurement has a 1/3 chance, etc.

No lol, get a book on probability, I recommend this one.

If you have the amazon account login you can listen to all the recordings you like http://alexa.amazon.com/spa/in...

For diagnostics you can listen to all the recordings they have (or at very least the recent ones) using the alexa app.
Or online http://alexa.amazon.com/spa/in...

Only records when someone says its wake word or it hears something it thinks sounds similar to its wake word.

"The tiny implant, about the size of a baby aspirin"

Is 'baby aspirin' supposed to be a unit of measure we are all familiar with? WTF is that even?

Baby aspirin is typically sold at a dose of 81mg per tablet. Converted to nanoseconds at the speed of light it's 8.1e-5 mm, or 72 trillionths of a furlong.

Amazon.com -> Electronics -> Printers and Ink -> Dot Matrix

Prices vary, but $200-500 seems to be the ballpark. This seems typical..

I like to build my systems small with micro-ATX and mini-ITX boards.

Well, Amazon doesn't have any Ryzen CPUs or Motherboards, but they do have this Wait for Ryzen t-shirt, perhaps you could order it in small while you wait?

Try reading some Meerloo

Piketty argues that when inequality increases, economic productivity goes down. So that's one reason. Another reason is because it's not really fair: people who have more often didn't work an equivalent amount more to get their wealth. This is especially true for people who inherited their wealth.

One of my favorite was from a book in '05 that pinned it pretty definitively in Indonesia. Although the author passed away soon after, fans of his (and some relatives) have been commenting upon some of the research at atlan.org, which was the first thing I thought of when news of this broke.

Yes, No, Yes and No. These and other questions can be answered on their help pages. Open a chat with them and say "Order # xxxx was due xx/xx/xxxx, but has not yet arrived. The shipper is now estimating the due date as xx/xx/xxxx . Would you please issue me a prime extension for the missed guarantee? Thanks so much." Takes about 5 minutes and "earns" me a tax-free $8.25 off of a bill I would otherwise pay.

Thank you, but as I said, they seem very reluctant to issue any refund or extension, in my experience.

Am I missing something about their guarantee, or do I have to bitch and moan every time a late package costs me money? Will they limit this, and do they compensate you in some other way?

Yes, No, Yes and No. These and other questions can be answered on their help pages. Open a chat with them and say "Order # xxxx was due xx/xx/xxxx, but has not yet arrived. The shipper is now estimating the due date as xx/xx/xxxx . Would you please issue me a prime extension for the missed guarantee? Thanks so much." Takes about 5 minutes and "earns" me a tax-free $8.25 off of a bill I would otherwise pay.

Video at 720p takes about 2 Mbps (source), or 2 Mbps * 60 s/minute * 1 GB/8000 Mbit = 0.015 GB/minute. Data transfer out of AWS costs 9 cents per GB plus tax (source). If a 10-minute (0.15 GB) video goes viral (which used to be called getting Slashdotted) and gets 10,000 views, that could result in a big AWS bill: 0.15 GB/view * 10,000 views * $0.09/GB = $135. Is the average person expected to afford that without running his own ads?

KFC and fried foods in general are fucking horrible.

Well, there's your problem, right there. Why not try the appropriate product which was meant for that instead?

No, no need to thank me. Where would the world be if us experienced types didn't pass along our wisdom to the clueless?

Look up Semco and Ricardo Semler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Semco has > 3000 people.

If you are curious, try reading this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-D...

The title is cheesy, but it really is an interesting book, once you get into it. Semler's philosophy is that of questioning things and if no good answers are provided, experiment with changing it.

For instance, he describes how he wanted to let people themselves choose the executive which ended up with him being replaced. :)

Or another experiment where he thought it was silly that the company should dictate the working hours in their factory. He then had to fight the union who thought he was tricking them, until they the finally agreed to a carefully controlled experiment - in the end the workers just held a short meeting the day before and decided among themselves what do to.

Of course, some kind of coordination structure is still needed. But there's a difference between CEO-is-coordinator to CEO-is-tyrant-who-can-fire-you-on-the-spot-if-he-doesn't-like-your-dress.

People will self-organize, and self-organization is powerful because it lets those with the dirty fingers make adjustments that are obvious to them.

Try reading this book: https://www.amazon.com/Seven-D...

Semco is > 3000 people.

Most people who are slandered as "Anti-Israel" aren't against Israel or Jews. They are against things like Israel constantly flouting its borders as defined by the UN resolution that created it, and the amended resolution that expanded them. To this day Israel is pushing active settlement programs that violate those borders. They also dislike things Israel's violations of wartime conventions (using white phosphorous, and further, doing so in civilian heavy populations). They are even more so against any valid criticism of the Israeli government being labelled as "anti-semitic". It is absolutely feasible for someone to have no issue with the Jewish people, but despise the behavior of Israel. There is a book I highly recommend reading called "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semintism and the Misuse of History". It is written by a Jewish Israeli. You are trying to grossly simplify the issue to push your perspective. Violating international boundaries and wartime conventions pisses people off.

While most of my work is for chips that are vastly more powerful than what is found in IoT devices I work on bootloaders and bare-metal programming. In some cases memory is a premium. With only a couple of exceptions, all of the work I have done has always been with C. Most small micros are programmed in C almost exclusively with a sprinkling of assembly.

C is very good for working closely with the hardware and in memory constrained environments. C code does exactly what it says. There is no hidden overhead. The runtime needed to run C code is pretty minimal. All it really needs to get going is often a few registers initialized and a stack and it's ready to go.

It works beautifully with memory mapped registers and data structures which are extremely common in this environment. There's even a keyword designed for this, volatile, that is not present in most other languages (or it does not do the same thing).

I can use a bitfield to define hardware registers and just map a pointer to the address of that register and use it. Mixing in assembly code is easy if it's needed, though generally I find that assembly code isn't needed very often.

It's also easy to generate a binary blob using C, a linker script and a tool like objcopy.

My experience has mostly been with 64-bit MIPS and some ARMV8 but it applies to most embedded processors. The output of the C compiler when optimizing for size (with the right options set) is pretty close to hand optimized assembly and often even better because the compiler does things that would make the code otherwise hard to read or maintain. The runtime overhead of C is minimal.

C's flexibility with pointers is also a huge plus. I can easily convert between a pointer and an unsigned long (or unsigned long long) and back as needed, or typecast to a different data type and pointer arithmetic is trivial. There is no hidden bounds checking or pointer checking to worry about. Many people say that's a bad thing, but when you're working close to the metal it can really turn into a major pain in the you know what. Master pointers and know how and when to typecast them. I've seen too many times where people screw up pointer arithmetic. I once spent several weeks tracking down a bug that showed up in one of my large data structures where I saw corruption. It turned out that some totally unrelated code written by somebody else in a totally different module was written by someone who didn't understand pointer arithmetic and was spewing data all over the place other than where it should be. He also didn't realize that when you get data from a TCP stream you don't always get the amount of data you ask for, it could be less.

I have been writing low-level device drivers and bootloaders for over 20 years and while programming has changed significantly for more powerful systems in userspace, for low level programming it has changed very little. My advice is to learn C and learn it well. Know what some of those keywords mean like static and volatile. Anyone who interviews in my group damned well better know what volatile means and how to use it.

C isn't a very complicated language but it takes time to properly master. It also doesn't hold your hand like many modern languages, which is why you often hear it is easy to have things like buffer overflows or stack overflows and it's also easy to shoot yourself in the foot. It doesn't have many of the modern conveniences, but those conveniences often come at a cost in terms of memory and performance.

The best book I've seen on the language was written by the authors of the language. It's not very long but it is concise and well written.

The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Richie.

I have also worked on C++ device drivers. While the overhead of C++ itself is generally minimal, it depends that you use only a subset of C++ and you have to know what C++ is doing behind the sce

He must have read Corinne Whitaker's book, The Quasi's : https://www.amazon.com/Quasis-.... I know because I wrote it.

I've frequently suggested people buy a GSM repeater for about $250 if they have that issue, largely because it's happened to me in situations where I can sometimes flicker Edge on and off and catch LTE+ for 1 bar in the right spot. Paying $200/year versus $800/year kind of makes that economical.

You would think HOAs would want to add on-pole towers for major carriers so as to maximize cell phone signal, but mostly they just all buy Verizon or AT&T or whatever already works there. Weird because the carriers will often pay a substantial fee to maintain a tower (as high as $800/month in some areas, depending on how much coverage they can get out of the tower) and that can offset HOA fees. Thus you get things like flat areas of DE being Verizon territory even though you can drop in a $250 repeater and boost the (barely-usable) signal in your house, or any of the 40 HOAs in the area can get $3,600-$9,600 out of T-Mobile and Sprint to host their towers.

If I were a contractor able to get "barely-any" service in basements on job sites, I'd bring a GSM repeater and plug it in on the floor immediately above--or run the antenna up there and have the transmitter in the basement. Think about it. $15/month versus $80/month. That thing's paying for itself in 4 months.

I've seen those repeaters as high as $3,000, but you really can get them for pretty cheap. Looks like the price has gone up a tad, though.

- competent regulators were needed.

Which the SEC has proven to be largely void of (see: Bernie Madoff). Check out the book No One Would Listen for a pretty detailed account of the SEC's incompetence on the matter.

Well, them and people who read books like Hacker's Delight. Really great book, btw.

Last I checked, Amazon didn't allow sellers to list used products in a lot of categories, such as used toys. (source) This leaves eBay for toy collectors.

An interesting book if you want to know more about this event: https://amazon.com/Island-Fire...

And you can still get one like that (Amazon ) for less than $40 on Amazon.

One thing I didn't see on the list but I consider a must-read book for any programmer, is The Design and Evolution of C++. It helps if you've worked with C++ but is not a requirement; the book is really good more because you learn how a programming language comes to be, and the thought that goes into how it works.

If you dislike some parts of C++ you will find fun supporting material here also... but really it's a great way to help you see all programming languages form the other side.

On a side note if you do like this you may want to look sometime into some of the Swift commonly rejected changes document, that gives you insight into a modern programming language as it forms. An amusing aspect is that it used to be called the "Commonly Proposed" document, as you can tell from the URL and file name...

Back then you could buy the Internet Yellow Pages at the bookstore to find everything on the Internet.

https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Yellow-Pages-3rd/dp/0078821827/

FRACTAL COMPRESSION AND ANALYSIS ON REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY: An advanced Compression and Analysis Method for Remote Sensing Images

I loved that book when I was a kid.

"Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" by Jerry Kaplan is one of my favorite books about Silicon Valley startup culture. Kaplan's pen-based computer company, Go Corp, got torn apart in the end from subsequent funding rounds as shareholders pushed the company in different directions. Company went through $75M in funding before closing.

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Adventure-S-Jerrold-Kaplan-ebook/dp/B00L0M749M/
Go Corp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GO_Corp.