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  • P PIEBALDconsult

    Who buys book from Amazon? I go to a store and put my hands on the actual items to get a feel for them -- and then not wait a week for it to arrive.

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    Lost User
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    PIEBALDconsult wrote:

    I go to a store

    I would go to a store too but they don't carry books that I need/want.

    Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy Individuality is fine, as long as we do it together - F. Burns Help humanity, join the CodeProject grid computing team here

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    • C Christopher Duncan

      Rocket surgery made easy What you call your book when the lawyers say that Rocket science made easy is already taken. :rolleyes:

      Christopher Duncan
      www.PracticalUSA.com
      Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
      Copywriting Services

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      Lost User
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      Brain Science Made Easy just didn't have the same ring to it.

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      • C Christian Graus

        tat ?

        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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        martin_hughes
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        Indeed, "tat".

        Books written by CP members

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        • L Lost User

          Brain Science Made Easy just didn't have the same ring to it.

          L u n a t i c F r i n g e

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          It does if if you do it right[^]!

          Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

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          • L Lost User

            It does if if you do it right[^]!

            Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

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            Lost User
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            :laugh: Or... like this[^]!

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            • Q QuiJohn

              "How to improve your marriage without talking about it" Yeah, I can see how that'd be for programmers.


              He said, "Boy I'm just old and lonely, But thank you for your concern, Here's wishing you a Happy New Year." I wished him one back in return.

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              Steve Mayfield
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              a book about sexting? :-O

              Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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              • M martin_hughes

                Indeed, "tat".

                Books written by CP members

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                Steve Mayfield
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                and I though he frequented a book store with a tatoo parlor in the back :laugh:

                Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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                • M merridus

                  It means junk/rubbish :D

                  - Rob

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                  RCoate
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                  Tat == Lace (as in what girls like on their knickers!) Old Tat == old and worthless lace.

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                  • Q QuiJohn

                    "How to improve your marriage without talking about it" Yeah, I can see how that'd be for programmers.


                    He said, "Boy I'm just old and lonely, But thank you for your concern, Here's wishing you a Happy New Year." I wished him one back in return.

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                    Mark_Wallace
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                    David Kentley wrote:

                    "How to improve your marriage without talking about it" Yeah, I can see how that'd be for programmers.

                    It tells you how to install a little door in the back of your wife's head, to insert a couple of EEPROM chips. Very useful during arguments.

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    • M Mark_Wallace

                      David Kentley wrote:

                      "How to improve your marriage without talking about it" Yeah, I can see how that'd be for programmers.

                      It tells you how to install a little door in the back of your wife's head, to insert a couple of EEPROM chips. Very useful during arguments.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                      OriginalGriff
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                      Mark Wallace wrote:

                      It tells you how to install a little door in the back of your wife's head, to insert a couple of EEPROM chips

                      Oh, I wish! I could fit a volume control! A pause button!

                      You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        Mark Wallace wrote:

                        It tells you how to install a little door in the back of your wife's head, to insert a couple of EEPROM chips

                        Oh, I wish! I could fit a volume control! A pause button!

                        You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy

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                        Caslen
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                        A mute button? A fetch me a beer button? :)

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                        • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                          This book[^] ranks 4th on Amazon.com bestsellers in the category of programming. Best sellers in programming books[^] I am not sure what to say about it.

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                          Tomz_KV
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                          It IS a programming book, but not about software.

                          TOMZ_KV

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                          • P PIEBALDconsult

                            Who buys book from Amazon? I go to a store and put my hands on the actual items to get a feel for them -- and then not wait a week for it to arrive.

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                            Jacek M Glen
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                            not wait a week for it to arrive There's that thing called Next day delivery. It works pretty well. You order your book during the lunch break, and next day in the morning et voilà! the book is on your desk!

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                            • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                              This book[^] ranks 4th on Amazon.com bestsellers in the category of programming. Best sellers in programming books[^] I am not sure what to say about it.

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                              RogelioP EX DE HL
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                              "Talking about it" is perhaps akin to commenting the code, real men don't comment their code, so there :-\ -- Rogelio

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                              • R RogelioP EX DE HL

                                "Talking about it" is perhaps akin to commenting the code, real men don't comment their code, so there :-\ -- Rogelio

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                                RogelioP / BASIC-Pascal-C-Logo Spoken Here wrote:

                                real men don't comment their code

                                So, real men are poor coders?

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                                  Tat == Lace (as in what girls like on their knickers!) Old Tat == old and worthless lace.

                                  modified on Friday, March 12, 2010 1:14 AM

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                                  Mike Devenney
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                                  Awesome! Second random Brit reference in one week. Heard "Bob's your uncle" while my kid was watching Phineas and Ferb the other day. :thumbsup: Some explanation - I say random becuase I ride with a guy who will occasionally drop what we call Simon-isms while we're out for a long ride. Most times we let them go but Bob's your uncle got us wondering. Why do we never hear these things anywhere else? Now I've heard two in one week coming in from far and wide. Sorry for taking the topic even further off course, but had to share. As you were. :suss:

                                  Mike Devenney

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                                  • S SIRVACodeGuy

                                    RogelioP / BASIC-Pascal-C-Logo Spoken Here wrote:

                                    real men don't comment their code

                                    So, real men are poor coders?

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                                    RogelioP EX DE HL
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                                    SIRVACodeGuy wrote:

                                    So, real men are poor coders?

                                    Not a blanket rule. Commenting code has nothing to do with its performance once it compiles and runs; on that note I could say a thing or two about establishing the quality of a relationship once the "we need to talk" rears its head, but I'll let others come Forth with their own theories. Feels like I already talked too much about it :zzz: -- Rogelio

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                                    • R RogelioP EX DE HL

                                      SIRVACodeGuy wrote:

                                      So, real men are poor coders?

                                      Not a blanket rule. Commenting code has nothing to do with its performance once it compiles and runs; on that note I could say a thing or two about establishing the quality of a relationship once the "we need to talk" rears its head, but I'll let others come Forth with their own theories. Feels like I already talked too much about it :zzz: -- Rogelio

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                                      SIRVACodeGuy
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                                      RogelioP / BASIC-Pascal-C-Logo Spoken Here wrote:

                                      SIRVACodeGuy wrote: So, real men are poor coders? Not a blanket rule. Commenting code has nothing to do with its performance

                                      Has plenty to do with its maintainability, though. I'm a Code Complete fan, and put readability on an equal level with performance. I don't even like maintaining my own code when I fail to comment.

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                                      • A AspDotNetDev

                                        I have the first edition. :)

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                                        Battlehammer
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                                        Is it good? useful?)

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                                        • N Nemanja Trifunovic

                                          :wtf: Half of the books on that list are not about programming.

                                          utf8-cpp

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                                          YSLGuru
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                                          I believe the reason you are seeing that 4th bestselling book (now listed at #5) listed in programming is because Amazon is not distinguishing the difference between computer programming and human programming, a specialization in human psychology where you are programming the mind. This is just a guess.

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