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Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by Derbasti »

Miademora wrote: post #43

Due to copyright restrictions, the Kindle title you're trying to purchase is not available in your country: Germany.

Unless, of course, you were to look at amazon.de, where the book is just as freely available as at amazon.co.uk or amazon.com.

At least it was a few hours ago. Now it is back to its normal price.

Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by feefie »

soitgoes wrote: post #46

Looks like the offer has now ended. I'm seeing the US version for $4.79 and the UK version is £3.02.

True. It was $0 for me yesterday but not today. This reinforces my unhealthy belief that I must check my news feeds constantly throughout the day, everyday, nonstop, lest I miss out on... saving $5. :)

Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by [deleted] »

amitdugar wrote: post #50
webmanoffesto wrote: post #44

It says $6.60 when I check the page. Because I'm browsing from outside the US? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HUMTO0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

I think the offer is closed. I was able to download the free copy from outside US. Maybe just a 24 hour offer.

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Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by markburns »

ta12121 wrote: post #29

You mean the guy who thinks you should email yourself your passwords to store them safely?

Do you have a reference for that? Was quite shocked by that and searching his site found a couple of sensible articles about security, but nothing about emailing yourself your passwords. May just be that my google-fu isn't good enough.

Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by laacz »

I think, that this kind of post ir misleading. During past month there has been several of those "Kindle edition for free", which does not represent actual price (at least for people not from USA). Same here - edition I see (from Latvia) is priced at $7.59.

Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by ta12121 »

markburns wrote: post #54
ta12121 wrote: post #29

You mean the guy who thinks you should email yourself your passwords to store them safely?

Do you have a reference for that? Was quite shocked by that and searching his site found a couple of sensible articles about security, but nothing about emailing yourself your passwords. May just be that my google-fu isn't good enough.

Second to last paragraph: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hac...

Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by markburns »

ta12121 wrote: post #58
markburns wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a reference for that? Was quite shocked by that and searching his site found a couple of sensible articles about security, but nothing about emailing yourself your passwords. May just be that my google-fu isn't good enough.

Second to last paragraph: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hac...

Presumably that is based on his assumption that once the web app receives an email via https and it is to a gmail user, they don't send the message via email (i.e. it never travels over an insecure channel). It may be a reasonable assumption, but seems a little strange to boast about exactly how secure it is.
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