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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
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Re: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
#12This seems great! Would love to join however I can only seem to find the 2008 and 2012 pdf of The Art of Multiprocessor Programming for free, is there a link for the 2020 version?
It’s not a free book. I believe that comment was a gentle nudge to remind people they actually need to buy it to support the author.
Thanks! I was just confirming because the older versions were available for free, but I do agree
Re: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
#13This seems interesting. Any specific reason why it's over emails instead of something like a forum or discord?
Re: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
#14Thanks for this! Signed up. Do we get an invite to the group.
Re: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
#15This seems interesting. Any specific reason why it's over emails instead of something like a forum or discord?
Google groups is a forum but discord has horrible historical retention.
Re: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
#16Hey folks, this is the 7th book in a series of readings I run over Google Groups. There are about 1800 people in the group and 300-800 join each reading. While we often read books on database internals this one seems pretty relevant to any developer working on systems that scale. Hope to have you in the group! Also even if you don't want to join this particular reading, join the mailing list for the overall book club…
What a cool idea! I'll join if my schedule allows. Thanks for doing this.
Re: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
#17This seems interesting. Any specific reason why it's over emails instead of something like a forum or discord?
Discord would be unpleasant for something like this with so many participants. It's a similar reason to skipping out on Hangouts, Zoom, etc. It forces synchronization, if you're not online during the discussion you're effectively barred from it. It can be very hard to catch up and very hard to respond to any particular thread of discussion. Discord is also, by design, essentially single-threaded. You can reply to specific comments but it's still presented in an interleaved format which makes tracking difficult when multiple threads of discussion are occurring at once.
If the discussion is light, it's a non-issue, but with 300-800 (per eatonphil's comment) it's likely that it will not be light.
Re: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
#18This seems interesting. Any specific reason why it's over emails instead of something like a forum or discord?
Discord would be unpleasant for something like this with so many participants. It's a similar reason to skipping out on Hangouts, Zoom, etc. It forces synchronization, if you're not online during the discussion you're effectively barred from it. It can be very hard to catch up and very hard to respond to any particular thread of discussion. Discord is also, by design, essentially single-threaded. You can reply to spe…
Your criticism of discord for this use case is valid. I didn't mean it has to be discord, it could be any platform as long as it allows having proper discussions without being a pain. I believe something like a flarum forum would be way better for this use case.
Re: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
#19Hey folks, this is the 7th book in a series of readings I run over Google Groups. There are about 1800 people in the group and 300-800 join each reading. While we often read books on database internals this one seems pretty relevant to any developer working on systems that scale. Hope to have you in the group! Also even if you don't want to join this particular reading, join the mailing list for the overall book club…
Sir, would you care to perhaps elaborate as to how this club business works. Potentially lots of folks interested. Thanks.
Re: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
#20Hey folks, this is the 7th book in a series of readings I run over Google Groups. There are about 1800 people in the group and 300-800 join each reading. While we often read books on database internals this one seems pretty relevant to any developer working on systems that scale. Hope to have you in the group! Also even if you don't want to join this particular reading, join the mailing list for the overall book club…
Sir, would you care to perhaps elaborate as to how this club business works. Potentially lots of folks interested. Thanks.
Do you have a specific question beyond what's on this page?