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Alain De Vos

Alain De Vos

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I hate you so much, guys :p Except for mechanical/electrical engineering books, I have only four books about programming topics. I'll be in shame to post pictures.:(
 
doul said:
I hate you so much, guys :p Except for mechanical/electrical engineering books, I have only four books about programming topics. I'll be in shame to post pictures.:(
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I'm ashamed, too, but that's not going to stop me. ;) These aren't all on-topic as some are just computing books and some aren't even computing but just in the frame. I'm also no programmer (beyond some shell scripting for personal use and some contributions to a project or two), so what can you expect? But I love books and seeing pictures of books and posting pictures of books, so here goes - an expensive way of subscribing to this thread.

#1 is the stuff in the top-right corner and on the floor (the backwards one is a non-computer book keeping stuff from falling over since I'm re-reading Classic Shell Scripting along with the stuff on the floor). I don't know how common copies are but imagine how pumped I was to find the actual 1978 Bell System Technical Journal describing Unix.
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Then I found an old picture on my old Dell of stuff I was storing away - I used to have a lot more but had to get rid of many and at least box up some more. This includes the manuals of my first (not counting a Vic-20) computer (long story), the book that had an out-of-date-even-then Caldara OpenLinux CD in it and was about the first, if not the first, OS OS I installed. The magazine that had the CD of the full Slackware 9.0 (or 9.1?) on it which was the first real Slack I had after only playing with small derivatives (I had an intermittent dial-up connection at the time, so this was a must.) Also, on the bottom-right, in what was apparently an omen, The Berkeley UNIX Environment. :)
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Andrey Lanin Nice All the Stevens. Me too.
Anyone else have "The TCP/IP Guide" by Charles Kozierok? It's a nice "light read"

C Programming Language by K&R
I have 2 copies of the first edition. One the binding is taped back together, both came from Bell Labs in Holmdel NJ (courtesy of dad working there)
 
Andrey Lanin said:
I have "The TCP/IP Guide" by Charles M. Kozierok only in pdf (1618 pages), but I just can't find the time to read it :)
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I don't know of anyone who has "read it" but I know plenty that have grabbed it, flipped through to the section they need, shoved in a manager face and said "See? THIS is how it works"
 
One thing about threads like this:
I grew up in the Golden Era of Technical Publications.

How many O'Reilly books do you have? Quick math, probably half of mine are.
Que books, Addison-Wesley were others.
NoStarch, TiltedWindmills.

Now everyone winds up at Stack Overflow.
 
doul said:
I hate you so much, guys :p Except for mechanical/electrical engineering books, I have only four books about programming topics. I'll be in shame to post pictures.:(
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Don't be!
Having a book doesn't mean it was read.
Being read doesn't mean it was understood. 🤓

Bill Gates shall have said about Knuth's "The Art of Programming":
'Anybody who read and understood that thing can send me an mail, and I give him a job.'
Nobody who read and understood that thing wants a job at MS. 😁
 
Maturin said:
"Medieval Combat" is about Windows 95SE?
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No, it is about Social Skills, in crowded rooms. It comes in handy when you need to show someone the door or politely telling off the young entepreneur in movable things who approaches you at 2AM at the train station with a business proposal about all that heavy stuff you carry around. Also, I told my GF about the illustrations by Albrecht Dürer, she is a lover of the arts but had no idea he made that kind of images.

Maturin said:
Nobody who read and understood that thing wants a job at MS.
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That would be quite a demotion, yes? I'm collecting the last volume whenever a new chapter comes out and I can proudly say I understand some of it.
 
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