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Post by eik3_de »

Pitarou wrote: post #42

"Down for maintenance." I guess it's the Hacker News effect.

the Varnish "Guru Meditation"[1] page never fails to give me a little smile, reducing the anger about unavailable pages

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation

Re: Packt Publishing ebooks free today with DOTDEBOOKFREE promo code

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Post by Pitarou »

eik3_de wrote: post #44
Pitarou wrote: post #42

"Down for maintenance." I guess it's the Hacker News effect.

the Varnish "Guru Meditation"[1] page never fails to give me a little smile, reducing the anger about unavailable pages [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation

I wondered about that. I thought "Guru Meditation" was an AmigaOS only thing.

Re: Packt Publishing ebooks free today with DOTDEBOOKFREE promo code

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Post by slimbods »

smoyer wrote: post #27

It looks like you can get a second e-book for free if you allow them to send seven days worth of daily deals (I unsubscribed from everything before noticing the message).

Not sure if they've just changed it, but the offer for the mailing list is now 50% off your next book. Or is that a different offer?

Re: Packt Publishing ebooks free today with DOTDEBOOKFREE promo code

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Post by muyuu »

herokusaki wrote: post #11
kelmop wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

script anyone?! :D

Why not torrent them instead? I mean it: I assume that collecting bogus data doesn't do them any good and torrenting would save the publisher some server load. A script that buys every book, on the other hand, doesn't even contribute to popularity statistics.

I'm just going to go ahead and get just 1 the legit way. However I wish they made some sort of volume discount that wouldn't mean paying £300+ for a 10-15 book collection.

Honestly most of these books are on topics that would make them obsolete quite soon. The real practical use for these is as references across several topics. I understand it's hard to monetise that kind of thing though.

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Post by JPKab »

hackerboos wrote: post #12
eik3_de wrote: post #6

Any recommendations for well-written books?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=packt+publishing&... I got "Building Machine Learning Systems with Python".

Great book. I'm one of the suckers who paid for it months ago.
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