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O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% (oreilly.com)
On Friday, O'Reilly Media announced "Our Cyber Monday sale starts now."
An anonymous reader writes: They're offering a 50% discount on every ebook they publish -- over 14,000 titles from O'Reilly, No Starch Press, Pearson, A Book Apart, Make, Packt, and 25 other book publishers. (And they're offering a 60 percent discount on orders over $100.) Just use the code CYBER16 when checking out to claim the discount. The sale continues through Tuesday morning at 5 a.m. PST.
These are all DRM-free ebooks (in multiple formats), and there's even some "early release" editions -- advance copies distributed before their official publication. The discount also applies to new titles like "Head First Python" as well as old-school classics like "Learning Perl". Right now their best-sellers are "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts", "Modern Linux Administration", and "You Don't Know JS: Up and Going" -- but again, the discount applies to any ebook that they sell, and they also still have their selection of free programming texts.
Tim O'Reilly was one of the first people interviewed by Slashdot -- more than 17 years ago.
These are all DRM-free ebooks (in multiple formats), and there's even some "early release" editions -- advance copies distributed before their official publication. The discount also applies to new titles like "Head First Python" as well as old-school classics like "Learning Perl". Right now their best-sellers are "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts", "Modern Linux Administration", and "You Don't Know JS: Up and Going" -- but again, the discount applies to any ebook that they sell, and they also still have their selection of free programming texts.
Tim O'Reilly was one of the first people interviewed by Slashdot -- more than 17 years ago.
Ebook piracy is rampant, does anyone buy ebooks anymore?
Surely these books are only available to assigned males, right? How do they tell exactly who's a womyn-born-womyn and who's a dirty bathroom rapist and who's a cis+het? I just haven't been really clear lately on whether being a bathroom rapist makes me more evil than the cis+hets or not these days. Used to be that having a woman suit meant that you were a metaphysical rapist who could rape the female form itself. But now apparently it's about raping little girls in the bathroom. Seems like a lame waste of advanced infiltrator capabilities.
Anyway, I'm expecting that women are not allowed to buy these at all, right? That's how all us evil assigned males who program are keeping women down, right? 'Cause, after all, there'd be no problem if a woman were able to just sign on to their website, buy a couple books, and learn programming! Gotta keep the hidden knowledge that only assigned males may access nice and hidden so women will never become programmers!
APress does discounts annually for cyber-Monday as well ... 10 bucks per e-book, 12.50 for paper. Makes a fellow all gluttonous ...
I don't know where to find all of them and if they are fairly priced I may buy them.
Anyway what I really wanted to point out is the current book bundle over at https://www.humblebundle.com/b...
It beats 50% off.
UNIX presented by O'reilly:
For free:
* Ten Steps to Linux Survival Excerpt
$1:
* Unix in a Nutshell, 4th edition.
* sed & awk, 2nd edition.
* lex and yacc, 2nd edition.
* Learning the Bash shell, 3rd edition.
* Linux pocket guide, 3rd edition.
Pay $8 and you'll also get:
* Bash cookbook.
* Classic shell Scripting.
* Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd edition.
* UNIX power tools.
* Learning the vi and vim editors, 7th edition.
* Bash pocket reference, 2nd edition.
* Learning UNIX for OS X, 2nd edition.
Pay $15 and you'll also get:
* Essential system administration, 3rd edition.
* TCP/IP network administration, 3rd edition.
* DNS and BIND, 5th edition.
* Network Troubleshooting Tools.
All in all 16 books for $15.
There's a O'Reilly Humble Book Bundle too (for another 11 days)! Worth taking a look at! Nice to have on your tablet/phone...
I need a wiring schematic for a 1909 Hupmobile...
Fiddy percent off?
Years ago O'Reilly and its animal covered tech books helped me a great deal, but things have changed. I haven't read an O'Reilly book (either paper or electronic) in years. A wealth of documentation and instructional material can easily be found online. And it's only getting better while tech books as a whole are getting worse thanks to self publishing and lack of good editing.
I'd rather have one StackOverflow than a million O'Reillys. And even if O'Reilly books were completely free I still wouldn't want them.
Anyone else feel the same? What other sources do you use to learn new things in lieu of books?
Why are you even thinking about the person replacing you? Anyone replacing me will find comment free code with no history in version control. If they're lucky.
I'm his manager now
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Sounds like you're the cuck. Make him buy the books himself you sissy faggot.
6/10 low-energy shitpost.
Same price as paper is 100% expensive for ebooks with almost 0% distribution cost.
Great idea, you can never be promoted and will get a bad reference. Genius.
The person who originally wrote the code I work on used Stack Overflow often. Occasionally it makes for some good laughs as we completely rewrite everything he did. Mostly, his code copied from SO causes much cussing.
Stack Overflow can sometimes be useful for comparing different approaches to one very specific problem, if you can look at each answer and understand what's good and bad about each. To learn a new way of doing things, a new language, or different technology, a book by an expert, structured to explain starting from basic principles, is a far better approach. For something new to you, browsing SO may be worse than not knowing anything - you most often end up with something syntactically correct but logically completely wrong.
I just spent $80 on oreilly (regular price $200). That $80 pays for itself if it eventually saves me 45 minutes of trying things and debugging.
Fantastic deal. Mind you, you don't get free updates as you would from directly purchasing from O'Reilly. I think you can upgrade for $4.99 per title, so pick the ones you want (or are likely to need upgrades) and do that. Still save a lot.
Would have been nice to have Apache (or nginx) and Samba books though.
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For those of you who like books, I recommend these books on JavaScript:
1) "The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript", by Nicholas C. Zakas. That book is great. And if anyone can tell me what the picture is on the front of the book, I'd appreciate it! (Is it a factory?)
2) The series of books "You Don't Know JS", by Kyle Simpson.
I often pirate their books and read the first few chapters. If I like the book I buy the dead tree version. I find I learn from a physical book much better than from reading off a monitor. I would say 75% of my reference books are now O'Reily.