Thanks so much Ed. I was looking forward to buying this when it was first posted on HN, but it was not available in my country. Now it is :) , thanks to you ! And a very Happy Birthday :)
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#52These pearls of wisdom are no less than PG's essays. What I find most impressive about his wisdom is that it had withstood the test of time....it's not just about finding the next big idea and executing it when you are 20/30 something and then do what? It goes much more deeper than that. It is about how to maintain genuine interest in programming, over a period, measured in decades(spanning all different type of envmts) and not years/months...To me that is the ultimate measure of success(for a hacker atleast).
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#53> 87. What got you "hooked"? Loved this story, and I enjoy coding the more I do this. The problem is to keep it focussed on "productive" output - otherwise you end up like that guy who wrote TeX instead of The Art of Computer Programming; or Blart Versenwald III¹; or 6. It automatically classifies unread comments based upon similarity to classified comments and some rules. (The idea was to classify the first 300 comm…
Blart Versenwald II seems to have done rather well though, no?
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#54First of all, this is awesome. Thank you! Secondly, I am reading through this and came across this: 14. Should I still be a programmer? "I lack the fundamentals of Computer Science, the things every programmer should know: Algo's, Data Structures, Operating Systems an understanding of compilers and being profficient with linux." Relax. That's true for 99% of all programmers. I feel like I am in the same exact boat as…
> Is there any further advice someone can give me?
Yes. Stop interviewing with Google.
There are plenty of places that need smart folks, who get things done, who are not jerks. And can look things up or ask around when they need to.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe a silly question, but where can I buy it?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52729281/The-Best-Of-edw519
Ah, this is annoying.
Selling is only allowed to people in the US? What on earth for?
I realize it's available free but I wanted to buy for the principle of the thing.
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#56This is amazing stuff - thanks much! I made a slightly more readable HTML version (with linked TOC and back links) here -> http://bit.ly/lSLTVT This could be converted to an ePub I think, with the linked TOC. If this a problem let me know and I will take it down, or maybe you could post it on http://edweissman.com/53640595 to get the linked TOC?
Thank you hieronymusN. Much prettier than mine. One problem though - you lost most of the paragraph formatting and spacing; you can see the difference on almost every entry if you look closely enough. Fix that and I'll just put your version on my blog. [Once again: thank you everyone for the kind words and feedback. You made my day!]
Facepalm - you're right, my regexes got a little too aggressive. I've reposted it with the formatting intact.
I also posted a version as PDF - again it has the linked TOC which makes it easier to navigate. The PDF isn't as nice as the HTML though.
[PDF] http://bit.ly/inAWAc
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
...it would be nice if titles linked to their comments... I purposely omitted references to the original Hacker News threads because I wanted the book to stand on its own. Hope this helps: http://edweissman.com/index-from-the-best-of-edw519-to-the-o... [Many thanks to everyone in this thread for the well wishes. You guys are helping to make my day!]
Thanks! I actually meant links to the comments lower down on the same page (eg for clarity: 87. What got you "hooked"? ... 87. What got you "hooked"? ), and then people could link to specific entries - but I like your interpretation better. [I had trouble expressing this in the GP, and went for over-conciseness, as "comment" is ambiguous. I still can't think of a brief but clear way to say it - there's probably some…
I agree - you can check a linked TOC version here http://bit.ly/lSLTVT
and [PDF] http://bit.ly/inAWAc
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you hieronymusN. Much prettier than mine. One problem though - you lost most of the paragraph formatting and spacing; you can see the difference on almost every entry if you look closely enough. Fix that and I'll just put your version on my blog. [Once again: thank you everyone for the kind words and feedback. You made my day!]
Facepalm - you're right, my regexes got a little too aggressive. I've reposted it with the formatting intact. I also posted a version as PDF - again it has the linked TOC which makes it easier to navigate. The PDF isn't as nice as the HTML though. [PDF] http://bit.ly/inAWAc
Do you have code handy to convert from html (with a TOC) to epub?
I looked up some python examples to start with:
python epub docs http://www.egofile.com/2010/01/convert-openofficeorg-writer-...
http://code.google.com/p/python-epub-builder/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/se...
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#59Hope you are not angry with me for taking it through readability, saving it to pdf and converting it to mobi. Wishing you a very happy birthday!
oh mobi may reformat better than pdf on my phone. Is that similar to epub format? That works wonderfully on the phone.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
No problem. I'm kinda curious what it would look like, too. Thanks for the interest and the well wishes, chanux.
Now that you are ok with it (You are amazing) here I post the zip that contains the pdf, mobi and epub. http://www.mediafire.com/?b736ucvz8rn7phu
Sweet! epub here I come.