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Wow! Those last three are really difficult ones.
I wish I could finish any one of those three.
I've dipped into them, but never finished.
There are two others on which rightfully deserver to be there:
1. Modern Software Engineering[^] by Farley I honestly believe that this one is fantastic and will stay on top lists for many years to come. I read it twice and am planning on reading it again.
2. The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd ed[^] by Petzold
I read the originally version (released in 2000) and have been reading this new 2nd ed. and it is absolutely the best pairing of hardware/ software knowledge ever. It's readable, contains some history to lock things together and explains computers in a way that really no one else has ever done.
The 2nd ed. has a web site[^] that has interactive circuits to help explain how things work. Very cool.
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raddevus wrote: I've dipped into them, but never finished.
I don't know anyone who has. I have gone through them, and I can say that you keep the interesting bits with you and revisit for something more from time to time.
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raddevus wrote: best software dev books:
As based on some list of people.
Yet it does not have the Dragon book nor the GoF book. Both of those are known by those names rather than the titles. Far as I know no others are. So it certainly suggests those are important.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Sander Rossel wrote: And I was looking at this All of us do
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Just in time!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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I thought it was a Jackson Pollock
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modified 22-Nov-23 11:05am.
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I think you're right. It's an AI transcoding of radio frequency noise from Jupiter interpreted as a single image which coincidentally resembles sheet music written by Jackson Pollock as a teenager, prescient of the rock & roll era.
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 23-Nov-23 11:00am.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I recognize that piece, it's a Sonata in E-Minor for the Comb Kazoo. Who is the composer? Looks like it could be P. D. Q. Bach, but I am unable to find in in the Shickele catalog.
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So am I, but I'm also immensely glad that people did and some still do.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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If I pull a USB cable from my Android phone (Samusung Galaxy S7 edge, 2016 vintage) to my Win10 PC, I can access both the memory card and the internal phone memory as if they were local disks.
Opening the Properties of a file on the phone, I can read that it is of "Size: 419 KB (429 399.00 bytes)". Well, that makes sense, except that the correct unit would be "419 Ki bytes - we are accustomed to software developers making unit mistakes, especially binary/decimal.
But if the exact size had been reported as, say, 429 399.42 bytes, I would have stalled.
Why is the size reported down to deci- and centibytes? Do all Android phones have the same reporting format, or is is specific to a Win10 driver, or driver specific to my model Samsung phone?
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I'd put it down to sloppy programming. A floating point value makes sense when they're scaling to KB/MB/GT/TB. They didn't bother handling the size as a simple integer when not scaling.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I think they are missing a decimal: if your file is 429399 bytes and 1 bit that makes 429399.125 bytes. Rounding it to 429399.12 is just sloppy
Mircea
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I was waiting for you to make a Hellraiser reference right up to the end of your post.
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