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Methinks mayhaps
Perhaps the Alligator should stick to Perl and stay away from Python(s).
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Buy it here!
You can buy the game here: Dragonshard. And if you use the "secret" A9.com discount, you can save an extra 1.57%!
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Buy it here!
You can buy the game here: Dragonshard. And if you use the "secret" A9.com discount, you can save an extra 1.57%!
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Re:article text
Considering you didn't even get the guy's name right, I have to doubt if anything else you said is correct.
There's a book by Brian LaMacchia: .NET Framework Security -
Re:OpenBSD at the cutting edge on security
You should try Analysing Sentences, it's a great book and starts from the absolute basics.
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101 Uses For A Dead Cat.
101 uses for a dead cat? http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0517545160.0
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Kill Maya Linux? Nope.
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Re:Loopholes?"Culturally influenced my ass."
Talk about self-defeating logic. You say it's not then lead into this next sentence:
"The mostly Arab fighters who inhabit the Iraqi battlefields use whatever Islamic mythology suits them at the moment, be it Mongol, Moorish, or Arab."
So which is it? They are culturally influenced or are they not? Secondly, what has this to do with combative methods and strategic thought? You have failed to elaborate about this mythology makes the bound from myth to combative action.
"Of the 50% of them who can read, I doubt they know who Sun Tzu is other than an infidel."
How does this refute my point? I said they were culturally influenced and they are. Look at the history. Much of the chinese classicists writings on warfare spread throughout the silk road from as far south as Indonesia and as far west as Turkey. Take a look at this map of the silk road. The methods of Middle Eastern fighting stem from Eastern fighting methods that had its roots in a mix of the Steepes people and ancient chinese strategists. For proof of this read up on Thomas X. Hammes, Van Creveld, Keegan , and most importantly Poole.
Oh, if you don't believe that middle eastern groups are not reading current strategy you are entirely mislead. Here is an up-to-date news article from a Kurdish website that analyzes Turkey's war against extremist groups and quotes the American strategist John Boyd Boyd. His material is based on a lot of Sun Tzu. It states that what Turkey is doing is what Boyd has suggested all along, which suggests that the cultural influence of Chinese military thought holds true.
"Furthermore, if what you say is true, then the 'insurgents's support base would be much larger. They would be winning after all."
How did you come to that conclusion? Do you know how large the insurgents support base is? There is suggestions that is up to 184,800. And that is just the Sunni insurgency and support base. That doesn't count the influence from the Iranians .
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Re:Loopholes?"Culturally influenced my ass."
Talk about self-defeating logic. You say it's not then lead into this next sentence:
"The mostly Arab fighters who inhabit the Iraqi battlefields use whatever Islamic mythology suits them at the moment, be it Mongol, Moorish, or Arab."
So which is it? They are culturally influenced or are they not? Secondly, what has this to do with combative methods and strategic thought? You have failed to elaborate about this mythology makes the bound from myth to combative action.
"Of the 50% of them who can read, I doubt they know who Sun Tzu is other than an infidel."
How does this refute my point? I said they were culturally influenced and they are. Look at the history. Much of the chinese classicists writings on warfare spread throughout the silk road from as far south as Indonesia and as far west as Turkey. Take a look at this map of the silk road. The methods of Middle Eastern fighting stem from Eastern fighting methods that had its roots in a mix of the Steepes people and ancient chinese strategists. For proof of this read up on Thomas X. Hammes, Van Creveld, Keegan , and most importantly Poole.
Oh, if you don't believe that middle eastern groups are not reading current strategy you are entirely mislead. Here is an up-to-date news article from a Kurdish website that analyzes Turkey's war against extremist groups and quotes the American strategist John Boyd Boyd. His material is based on a lot of Sun Tzu. It states that what Turkey is doing is what Boyd has suggested all along, which suggests that the cultural influence of Chinese military thought holds true.
"Furthermore, if what you say is true, then the 'insurgents's support base would be much larger. They would be winning after all."
How did you come to that conclusion? Do you know how large the insurgents support base is? There is suggestions that is up to 184,800. And that is just the Sunni insurgency and support base. That doesn't count the influence from the Iranians .
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Re:Loopholes?"Culturally influenced my ass."
Talk about self-defeating logic. You say it's not then lead into this next sentence:
"The mostly Arab fighters who inhabit the Iraqi battlefields use whatever Islamic mythology suits them at the moment, be it Mongol, Moorish, or Arab."
So which is it? They are culturally influenced or are they not? Secondly, what has this to do with combative methods and strategic thought? You have failed to elaborate about this mythology makes the bound from myth to combative action.
"Of the 50% of them who can read, I doubt they know who Sun Tzu is other than an infidel."
How does this refute my point? I said they were culturally influenced and they are. Look at the history. Much of the chinese classicists writings on warfare spread throughout the silk road from as far south as Indonesia and as far west as Turkey. Take a look at this map of the silk road. The methods of Middle Eastern fighting stem from Eastern fighting methods that had its roots in a mix of the Steepes people and ancient chinese strategists. For proof of this read up on Thomas X. Hammes, Van Creveld, Keegan , and most importantly Poole.
Oh, if you don't believe that middle eastern groups are not reading current strategy you are entirely mislead. Here is an up-to-date news article from a Kurdish website that analyzes Turkey's war against extremist groups and quotes the American strategist John Boyd Boyd. His material is based on a lot of Sun Tzu. It states that what Turkey is doing is what Boyd has suggested all along, which suggests that the cultural influence of Chinese military thought holds true.
"Furthermore, if what you say is true, then the 'insurgents's support base would be much larger. They would be winning after all."
How did you come to that conclusion? Do you know how large the insurgents support base is? There is suggestions that is up to 184,800. And that is just the Sunni insurgency and support base. That doesn't count the influence from the Iranians .
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Re:Been tried in standard players too
They provide an interesting alternative to Studio-released movies. Noel was one.
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Re:Read the user reviews, a dev made a comment.
At least now we have more information on the game.
SPOILER WARNING!
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Re:Simple solution
I'd say that in terms of evilness, Mao > Current Chinese Government >> America.
The American government, BTW, isn't holding it's own citizens in gitmo, just people who where a) foreign and b) captured in a war figthing out of uniform for the other side. Back in WWII, spies and saboteurs where routinely shot not just held in dubious conditions. Traitors too actually, which would cover anyone in gitmo with US citizenship if they fought for the wrong side. So gitmo is actually an improvement on WWII. That said, people probably got tortured there, which I can't condone.
But the Chinese government is holding and torturing thousands of people without any pretence of a legal process. It also doing it to it's own citizens purely for peaceful opposition, which the American one doesn't. I'd guess that if you're American, you're not in mortal danger for criticising the US gov your last post, which wouldn't be true if you were Chinese. Also, unlike in America, the orders for the repression are absolutely linked to the people in power - read the Tiananmen Papers if you're interested. Now some memo could pop up tomorrow linking Rumsfeld to torture of course, but if it did it would be covered by the media (unlike China), people would lose their jobs and/or go to jail (ditto) and the US government would end up apologising and paying compensation. So the two US and Chinese government aren't really comparable morally.
And in any case, the misdeeds of the American government in a war isn't really the point here. Democracies do some highly questionable things to their enemies in wars, but dictatorships need to do much worse to their citizens just to survive. And you need to keep in mind that the democracies conduct in recent wars is less questionable than in WWII, where Kabul&Baghdad would have been levelled to the ground, and the people in gitmo would have been summarily executed.
And this is not a 'my country right or wrong' patriotic thing btw, since America isn't my country. I just think it's important to realise that there are good guys and bad guys, even if the good guys are not exactly perfect. -
Re:What I want to know
uhh why would they and why are you modded as insightful??(think carefully before you answer, most CGI farms are custom built solutions and Microsoft has very little to do in that area.. see Pixar etc)
Lord of the Rings was most likely done on RedHat or Fedora btw: http://www.massivesoftware.com/requirements.html
Besides, don't you think Microsoft would have already gotten it leaked to the press and spun it to say how much more superior their software was?
This is just typical /. Microsoft hate-mongering.. is that tin-foil hat nice and tight or do you have anything to support such a rumor?
Hmm sounds like the same kind of crap /. was spewing around the time it was announced Microsoft was buying Bungie about how this meant that no version of Halo would EVER appear on the Mac after that...
Guess we know how that all turned out..
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 06IQTH/103-7401908-0239846?v=glance -
Re:Yes, but...
Which one? I've read a couple. They're not bad. Not high literature, but fun pulp fiction. If you've ever read any D&D, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc book, these fall into the same category. Worth a quick loan from the library if you're a fan of Halo, at the very least (gives you a good amount of backstory to the Halo world that you just don't get from the games).
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Re:You knew it was going to happen...
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How's the temperature?
Busy keeping things hot and cold?
Since it appears we can speak the same language, I'll admit that I had just finished reading about high energy cosmic rays. I still had the thoughts, but failed to bring enough of the context over.
For more, see this pair of books.
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biggest barrier is ease of use.Linux is a pain in the ass from an ease of use perspective. And I honestly wish that I could use Linux, but I don't want to be a system admin.
I want something that:
- I turn on and it works.
- When I want to configure something, there is a GUI that is easily found.
- works consistently across all distros.
I don't care about
.rpm vs redhat vs whatever 'new, improved, way' of packaging programs to install there is. I don't care about journaling file systems. As a user why should I have to care? Isn't it the responsibility of the computer to keep track of such details?Its not better for me as a user if I have to learn all about the differences. If I have to be a sys admin to get my document to print this is bad.
Unfortunately, the indifference to the user who does not want to RTFM permeates Linux (and to be fair most 'enterprise' commercial software) For examples of what I mean: Why I Hate the Apache Web Server and the whole discussion about Eric Raymonds rant about CUPS
For the 2 Linux developers who might care at all, you might read this book
P.S I have worked on *nix off and on for almost 20 years, and I program in Java professionally.
P.P.S. And I would really love it if Microsoft's desktop market share < 50% but it will not happen until Linux developers decide that ease of use matters.
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Good book on the subject
Happiness: The science behind your smile
Despite the trivialised jacket, this is a good book covering the subject. Basically fills out the article with a real review of the science. Worth the money just for the titbit that one way to a lasting increase in happiness is breast inplants;-> -
Re:happiness is overrated
Now, now... anti-depressants don't actually make you happy... they just make the depression subside a bit so you can get moving again and make yourself happy. Taking anti-depressants is like if you have a hole in your boat and you're sinking, the drugs are like pumping out the bilge. It doesn't fix the problem, but it will keep you afloat until you can get to a safe harbour and repair the damage.
So true happiness is not affected by drugs? So true happiness must not be physiological and must reside somewhere other than the body/brain? So precisely _where_ does true happiness reside - in the soul, in the "great all of Buddha", in your mother?
You need to read Listening to Prozac by psychotherapist Peter D. Kramer, M.D. Kramer is a psychotherapist who once used primarily analytical techniques. He then prescribed a new drug, Prozac, to some of his patients. Many whose problems were unsolved by analysis were "cured" by Prozac within weeks - they became "different people": more productive, more outgoing, more intelligent, etc.
At the end of the book Kramer envisions a world where people can take designer drugs to boost their social status: failing to use drugs would result in lower social status, income, sexual success, etc. He also now doubts that analysis is a cure; medication works faster and is more certain.
Happiness is chemistry pure and simple.
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Or you could read something scientific
Such as the book Destructive Emotions(No, not an affiliate link, you can click on it).
There's thousands of years of research out there, and no, it doesn't have to be a religious change, and hell, you don't even have to call yourself one. -
Re:Happiness versus Contentment
1. Life means suffering.
And that is well said in the book The Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck. Like me, it has changed the life of many readers.
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Wow, 16k
16,000 books is small compared to what Amazon started with, 120,000[1]. It's tiny compared to what they have now, which is probably over a million[2] -- and that's just what's live on their website. Who knows how many they have scanned and ready to go? Contrast this to Google Print, who eschew Amazon's "scan what we have" philosophy and instead go for "scan whatever we can lay our hands on." You'd only guess that they have about 200,000 from a simple search[3], but since their program is fairly young it's reasonable to assume that this represents a fraction of the material they haven't yet made live. Plus it was just a search for the number 1, so presumably there are several books that don't contain that particular numeral.
My point, for those of you who were asleep during the first paragraph, is that Project Gutenberg will never come anywhere near to the scope of Google Print, A9, or ultimately Yahoo!.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/507 108/102-4368024-5588945
[2] http://a9.com/4 -- make it show books, not the web
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Somewhere in the middle
Yes, Kurzweil has the uber tech credentials to lend legitimacy to his predicting endeavors. However, He ignores many, many aspects of our current reality that will definitely impinge his utopian dreamworld.
First off, the current fossil fuel based economy needs to be quickly and with as little disruption as possible, moved to a new and low polluting fuel. For the business side of his predictions to take place, this will have to be addressed. There are plenty of opinions about this, including this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871 138883/qid=1128375836/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002- 2835979-1699208?v=glance&s=books
Perhaps we could look at what many biologists are saying is only a matter of time. A world pandemic, similar to what happened in 1918.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385 479565/qid=1128376027/sr=5-3/ref=cm_lm_asin/002-28 35979-1699208?v=glance
Last but not least, when technology gets to the point of enabling humans to live several hundred years, who gets to enjoy such benefits?
No, I think a combination of Kurzweils book and Bill Joys Why the future doesn't need us is more likely.
Let's not forget Murphys Law... -
Somewhere in the middle
Yes, Kurzweil has the uber tech credentials to lend legitimacy to his predicting endeavors. However, He ignores many, many aspects of our current reality that will definitely impinge his utopian dreamworld.
First off, the current fossil fuel based economy needs to be quickly and with as little disruption as possible, moved to a new and low polluting fuel. For the business side of his predictions to take place, this will have to be addressed. There are plenty of opinions about this, including this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871 138883/qid=1128375836/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002- 2835979-1699208?v=glance&s=books
Perhaps we could look at what many biologists are saying is only a matter of time. A world pandemic, similar to what happened in 1918.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385 479565/qid=1128376027/sr=5-3/ref=cm_lm_asin/002-28 35979-1699208?v=glance
Last but not least, when technology gets to the point of enabling humans to live several hundred years, who gets to enjoy such benefits?
No, I think a combination of Kurzweils book and Bill Joys Why the future doesn't need us is more likely.
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Re:Linus has limited engineering future visionMankind's future in computing must build on immoveable foundations of theory and logic if it is to progress into a realm where machines of IQs in the millions work at our behest.
What a complete pipe dream. This sort of mathematics fetish embodies one of the same failings that causes so much pain in modern software development. You refer to "the metaphorical bridges of computer science still [...] falling down", yet you talk like a mathematician not a civil engineer. In my opinion, you've lost either way, because you ignore the real-world problem domain in favor of a Magical Solution.
Michael Jackson (the software development author, not the pop star) put it well in this book, p. 188:
"Some chemists and biologists suffer from 'physics envy'. They wish their own subjects had the character and repuatation and achievements of physics. In the same way, a lot of software scientists suffer from 'engineering envy'." In the same way, you're getting into a wierd mathematics/engineering envy. Jackson goes on to say:The most prominent difference [between software development and traditional engineering] is that the traditional, established branches of engineering are all highly specialized. Chemical engineers don't build electricity generating plants. The automobile engineers at GM or Toyota would not accept a commission to specify a replacement for the Brooklyn Bridge. [...] In fact, the established disciplines are so specialized and so different as to have almost nothing in common. [...] Software engineers would be analogous to 'physical engineers', imaginary polymaths who understand any material, to serve any purpose.
Moreover, you assume that "progressing" into a "realm where machines of IQs in the millions work at our behest" is even a remotely desirable goal. This sounds more like a sci-fi wet dream than a desirable end. The real problems that large-scale software development faces today are not machine problems, but human problems. Questions such as "how do we get a team of developers to efficiently develop software to meet a goal?" and "what _is_ the goal, and how do we tell if the software meets it?" are vastly important, and completely unaddressed by formal methods of the "immoveable foundations of theory and logic" variety. You've got a solution looking for a problem.
This is not to say that formalisms (or specs... ;-) are useless; far from it. Computer science itself is the ugly-duckling melding where mathematics and engineering meet... and some of the most promising modern developments in programming languages and operating systems research have gorgeous (yet practical!) formally based foundations. Yet the successes here are all heavily grounded in real-world problem domains. Formalisms and mathematics here are modelling tools used by folks intimately familiar with these messly, real-world problems.
And to circle back to the thread's topic: specs are downright harmful when divorced from reality, or when treated as a rigid and immutable gospel. OTOH, specs that are deeply rooted in the reality of the real-world problem domain, and which evolve to encompass the knowledge gained through the development process, can be powerful tools for communication about a software project and its goals. -
Re:deja vu all over againOr, perhaps the rise and fall of civilizations is a cyclic process,
Reads ominously like a post from someone who has actually read O. Spengler's Decline of the West. I own a copy, very old, but I've never been able to read it (it's not as inacessible as Joyces' Finnegan's Wake but it's "all Greek to me"). The only comparable experience, in terms of flurid prose, I've had was reading H. Bergson.
I read and liked A. Toynbee but I just can't see that an idea such as you've suggested could ever be substatiated or refuted.
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Re:deja vu all over again... particularly when that character is Socrates, who is known to be purposefully misleading.
There's so little to go on concerning the true character of Socrates. AFAIK there's Plato and Xenophon. I can't remember reading Aristophanes The Clouds wherein Socrates was caricatured.
Burnet (as I read in Russell's History of Wester Philosophy) wrote: 'Xenophon's defense of Socrates is too successful. He would never have been put to death if he had been like that.' Personally I like the bit on Socrates attributed to the prosecution: Socrates is an evil-doer and a curious person, searching into things under the earth and above the heaven; and making the worse appear the better cause, and teaching all this to others. The, perhaps apocryphal, report that near death he asked a friend to pay a debt owed, a cock to Asclepius, is cool, as such a debt was paid when the debtor recovered from an illness.
I think Plato did history a disservice in his fictional representation of Socrates. Given you're posts I think you're better read in terms of Plato than I am (not a difficult feat);) so I'll defer to your characterization. I can't immediately recall the Classical Greek concept of history but I seem to remember their concept of history was radically different than ours.
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Linus Taken to Task-Software engineering.
The Laws of Software Process: A New Model for the Production and Management of Software
I heartedly recommend to anyone in the "engineering" argument.
Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
Microsoft's idea of "software engineering" -
Linus Taken to Task-Software engineering.
The Laws of Software Process: A New Model for the Production and Management of Software
I heartedly recommend to anyone in the "engineering" argument.
Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
Microsoft's idea of "software engineering" -
Confirmed: Russell dies of hiccups
Actually in the graduate math classes I've had, it was pretty much a given that the Grand Dream of Russell was shattered on the rocky shores of Godel. Seems like there was a crisis in Mathematics (due to Godel) as severe as the crisis in Physics (due to QM). It was said that before Physics could procede, a generation of Physicists would have to die out. Mathematics proved more resistant, embraced Formalism, and climbed into its navel instead. (Noteable exception: Tristan Needham's Visual Complex Analysis, also see the book's homepage.
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Re:deja vu all over againWhere did this quote come from?
Both quotes are from a text file I've kept for some time. I'll try to get a source.
I've read Plato and the neoPlatonists (especially Plotinus) but can't recall a source for the quotes. Having read The Republic I've little doubt Plato would have spoken in the quoted terms. The ideas he set out in The Repulic in terms of the training and power of the Guardians seems to me to jive with someone who would see any impropriety as unacceptable; but, it's worth keeping in mind, that he was an aristocrat who saw the destruction of his kind's power base. That he seems to have adopted the "ideals" of Sparta as the underpinnings for his Utopia is suggestive of someone who subscribes to power as a sort of "Dieu et mon Droit" principle. Personally I find his views repugnant the more so for having read K. Popper's Open Society and It's Enemies
You're right in thinking the odds on favourite would be his having put the words into one of his quasi fictional characters. B. Russell characterizes Plato as, above all, a writer of inventive genius.
cheers
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Similar book from a few years back
This sounds similar to some ideas in The Physics of Immortality : Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead by Frank J. Tipler (a prof. of mathematical physics at Tulane U.), which takes this idea even further into something called the Omega Point theory. While portions of the book are so wildly speculative and optimistic as to sound crackpot-ish, the basic ideas and themes underpinning the discussion are serious and merit further discussion.
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Carbon Leaf!
Carbon Leaf has had a few of their albums available, straight through Amazon. For example, Echo Echo
(there are more, dig around)
And at concerts on etree.org he definitely says "spread the word by any means possible" -- though now they're with a "real" label, maybe the latest album doesn't fall under that license.
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Lovecraft question
I've read The Call of Cthulhu and a few other Lovecraft stories that I dug up online in the past few years and really liked them. Does anyone have any suggestions for one or two good comprehensive compendiums of his works? The Library of America book looks pretty good, but I just wanted to see if anyone else had any other suggestions before I order. Thanks for your help!
"Kill your friends, Light your feet, Do what I want, Lovecraft." -Vaselines -
Re:Competition at Work
microsoft security a feature they are trying to copy!? there is your first problem. if you are looking at security as a feature then your product is already an insecure piece of software. security is something that is part of every step of development: design, implementation, testing, deployment, post-deployment.
so no, microsoft is probably not "copying security" they are the ones on the front lines. who does redhat go to when they realize they need security as a part of the product life cycle? who wrote the leading book on writing secure code? let me tell you, it didnt come from oracle, linux, redhat... it was microsoft.
yes, microsoft is definitely reactive. but they also react with a bang. they realized their shit was insecure, and they were losing billions on it. being capitalist pigs they wanted to keep their shareholder value. like everything else they do they have a common pattern: they discover something they want, they go after it, the conquer it. and thats exactly what they are doing with security. just like they did with xbox, office, operating systems, server market.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx?pu ll=/library/en-us/dnsecure/html/sdl.asp
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735 617228/qid=1128243706/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9647 408-6932144?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 -
The Ants
For those of you who have not seen The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, it is definitely worth a read. The drawings alone are worth the price of the book.
For those of you how are not impressed by ants, try to build one.
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Re:Is selling a used car wrong too?
I hope you are being sarcastic. If not (or for the benefit of those who thought you were being sincere) . . .
Why should autoworkers (or the auto company) be paid for doing no work?
They worked to build the new car. They are paid for their work on the new car. The new car is sold so the company can pay the workers for building the new car.
With a used car, the used car salesman paid to buy the used car from the first customer. He paid for the land on which he stores the used car until a second customer can be found. He (if he is an honest used car salesman, and not a crook) worked to inspect the car and make sure it is in acceptable condition, or paid somebody else to perform that work. If there is a second customer, the salesman is paid to compensate for his work and investment.
Exactly what work did the autoworkers (or the auto company) perform in the process of buying, storing, inspecting, and selling a used car? They have already been paid for their work building the car when it was new.
Do you think the lemonade-powder company should make a percentage of every sale from every child's street-side lemonade stand? Of course not — the lemonade-powder company has already been paid for the work they did in providing the lemonade powder. They have no right to dictate, or make a profit from, any further work done by other individuals or companies.
What you are proposing, when you suggest that autoworkers be compensated for performing no work, is Communism. And, if you haven't heard the news, Communism will never be viable, because it rewards the lazy and punishes the productive.
If any of you are confused, and think that it is moral to give money to people who have not done any work to earn that money, I suggest you read some of the works of Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged , in particular, shows what would happen if we lived by your creed. And I'll give you a hint: it isn't pretty. -
Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
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Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
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Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
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Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
-
Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
-
Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
-
Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
-
Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
-
Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
-
Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
-
Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
-
Quality: Addison Wesley, PTRSome of the O'Reilly books are really good, especially the Perl one mentioned above, but over the years, I've found the composition of my bookshelf shifting from the O'Reilly manual/tutorial/reference style books to a broader range of things, including more "classics", many of which come from Addison Wesley and PTR (see below for a gratuitous Amazon-spamming:-). O'Reilly seems to produce books that are really good at covering "today's hot buzzword" well, giving you a good overview of the technology, and enough in-depth knowledge to get what you need done. However (and only time will tell if I'm right), this approach seems to produce books that have a more limited shelf life, compared to something like Knuth, K&R, SICP and the like. In any case, I love books...I'd buy tons of them if I had the money!
- About Face 2.0
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
- Algorithms in C
- The C Programming Language : ANSI C Version
- C++ Programming Language 3RD Edition Special Edition
- Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Learning Python
- Linkers & Loaders
- Linux Device Drivers
- Operating Systems : Design and Implementation
- Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, 4th Edition
- The Practice of Programming
- Programming With Posix Threads
- Python Essential Reference 2ND Edition
- Running Linux
- The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Unix for the Impatient
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
- Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.