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As an avid reader (and sometimes writer) of technical books, it's sad to see the, perhaps inevitable, decline of the space. I still remember in the early 2000s Barnes and Noble would still have massive shelf space devoted to every technical topic you could imagine. I could spend hours just exploring what languages and topics there were I didn't even know existed. Powell's Technical Books used to be an entire separate…
> As an avid reader (and sometimes writer) of technical books, it's sad to see the, perhaps inevitable, decline of the space. When I think about this, I get a little bit scared. Imagine books going away, even if it's just the subcategory of technical books. The printed word has been around for a long time. The number of things that have been printed has always gone up. It really bothers me that that's changing. PDFs…
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It went un-noticed here, I think, but The Pragmatic Bookshelf recently fired most of its staff and are taking on no new books. In the email they sent to authors, they quoted a 40% YoY fall in non-fiction sales, industry-wide.
As an avid reader (and sometimes writer) of technical books, it's sad to see the, perhaps inevitable, decline of the space. I still remember in the early 2000s Barnes and Noble would still have massive shelf space devoted to every technical topic you could imagine. I could spend hours just exploring what languages and topics there were I didn't even know existed. Powell's Technical Books used to be an entire separate…
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We should all take the train to Powell's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell%27s_Books
Which one? The original one in Chicago or that other one in Portland?
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To be clear, my question was about whether there is a situation where it is rational from a management accounting perspective to define a unit's budget like this.
Imagine you own a factory that makes plastic widgets. The factory has a widget-making machine. You'll pay rent on the factory and interest on the loan you took out to buy the widget-making machine whether you make one widget or a million. But the amount you'll spend on plastic and machine operator wages goes up the more widgets you want to make. So you can plot a line, y=mx+c where y is the amount you spend and x is…
This is purely a problem if you have to get a loan or something. If you’re the sole owner of the business, you can count money the normal way, since it’s all the same money to you. I.e. you don’t have to spend silly amounts on renting when owning is actually cheaper.
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I’m similar to you. I recently went as far as to buy a pdf for an out of print book and then paid to have it printed and bound. I suppose a remarkable would be another route but… they are pricey.
Same; avid reader of printed books here. I have more pdfs I can count (most coming from Humble Bundle impulse buying), but nothing beats physical books for me. I got a remarkable pro, and it's just slightly better than screen. Being able to annotate books is actually a welcomed addition, and the screen is pretty decent. But flipping screen is slow (compared to a printed book), and going back and forth between pages i…
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How are you able to download the videos to begin with?
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Which one? The original one in Chicago or that other one in Portland?
Elliott Bay is in Seattle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Bay
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Same; avid reader of printed books here. I have more pdfs I can count (most coming from Humble Bundle impulse buying), but nothing beats physical books for me. I got a remarkable pro, and it's just slightly better than screen. Being able to annotate books is actually a welcomed addition, and the screen is pretty decent. But flipping screen is slow (compared to a printed book), and going back and forth between pages i…
I don't know if HN gives you notifications when you get replies so I'm going to reply to this post regarding https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=46179347&goto=item%3Fi... How are you able to download the videos to begin with?
If you're an OMSCS student, most courses offer the download through Ed or Canvas. Usually it's a big zip file under the first lesson, but I've seen some available in the shared Dropbox. I've seen this for GIOS, ML4T, ML, and a few others. Or you can just reach out to the TAs.
If you're not a student, then it gets a bit tricky. Some courses are available as YouTube playlists or on Coursera, but then it becomes a hassle to download and piece together hundreds of individual files.
Feel free to drop me a note (email in my profile), or open an issue on github.
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I don't know if HN gives you notifications when you get replies so I'm going to reply to this post regarding https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=46179347&goto=item%3Fi... How are you able to download the videos to begin with?
oh hi! If you're an OMSCS student, most courses offer the download through Ed or Canvas. Usually it's a big zip file under the first lesson, but I've seen some available in the shared Dropbox. I've seen this for GIOS, ML4T, ML, and a few others. Or you can just reach out to the TAs. If you're not a student, then it gets a bit tricky. Some courses are available as YouTube playlists or on Coursera, but then it becomes…
Seems like I'm stuck using Ed.
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oh hi! If you're an OMSCS student, most courses offer the download through Ed or Canvas. Usually it's a big zip file under the first lesson, but I've seen some available in the shared Dropbox. I've seen this for GIOS, ML4T, ML, and a few others. Or you can just reach out to the TAs. If you're not a student, then it gets a bit tricky. Some courses are available as YouTube playlists or on Coursera, but then it becomes…
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I'm not a student there. I just saw that they were making some of their lessons publicly available and wanted to organize the material for myself. I'm experiencing their courseware through the 2 minute long micro lessons on the Ed platform and I don't see any way to download the videos. Seems like I'm stuck using Ed.
So yeah, it's a bit of a hassle, and but you can probably still piece it together for some/most courses that are publicly available.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/@manx6092/playlists [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/comments/zjbh8i/cs_6200_lectu...