I can resist everything except temptation.
I read pretty much anything with a halfway interesting title, although mostly technical books about programming.
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33% complete! Attaboy has read 4 of 12 books.
From the back cover:
The Man Who Sold The Moon
D.D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream …
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. The book was edited by …
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. …
There's a wonderful Unix command called "strip," with which you force programs to remove all their debugging information. Unix programs (such as the Sun window system) are stripped as a matter of course, because all the debugging information takes up disk space and slows down the booting process. This means you can't use the debugger on them. But that's no loss; have you seen the Unix debugger? Really.
— The UNIX-haters Handbook by Simson Garfinkel (Page xxv - xxvi)
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. …
Modern Unix is a catastrophe. It's the "Un-Operating System": unreliable, unintuitive, unforgiving, unhelpful, and underpowered. Little is more frustrating than trying to force Unix to do something useful and nontrivial. Modern Unix impedes progress in computer science, wastes billions of dollars, and destroys the common sense of many who seriously use it.
— The UNIX-haters Handbook by Simson Garfinkel (Page xix - xx)
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. The book was edited by …
My favorite ones were (order in which they appear in the book):
"[...] I call myself The Misfit," he said, "because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment."
— Fifty Great Short Stories by Milton Crane (Page 244)
In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she had meant to answer with; bitter alternatives and intolerable substitutes worse than nothing, and yet inescapable: the long patient suffering of dying friendships and the dark inexplicable death of love -- all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.
— Fifty Great Short Stories by Milton Crane (Page 227 - 228)
Bedingungsloser Zugang zu den Gütern, die unser Leben möglich und schön machen – und das für alle: Das ist Öffentlicher …
Bedingungsloser Zugang zu den Gütern, die unser Leben möglich und schön machen – und das für alle: Das ist Öffentlicher …
Bedingungsloser Zugang zu den Gütern, die unser Leben möglich und schön machen – und das …
Wenn es beispielsweise in Berlin-Neukölln einen Abbau der Jugendhilfe und der Sozialdienste gibt, bei einem gleichzeitigen Ausbau der Polizei, dann wird ein sozialer Brennpunkt erschaffen und zugleich kriminalisiert.
— Öffentlicher Luxus by communia & BUNDjugend (Hrsg.) (Page 102)
