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The link says “Published by Kindle direct publishing” but I can’t find the kindle version on amazon. Or indeed any ebook version. Do Kindle books not show up for pre order usually?
The link says “Published by Kindle direct publishing” but I can’t find the kindle version on amazon. Or indeed any ebook version. Do Kindle books not show up for pre order usually?
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The irony of using Kindle Direct publishing but not putting out a Kindle version is palpable :-) I have stopped buying paper books over past several years as they simply accumulate moisture and mould in the climate I live in and make rooms smell musty. It is incomprehensible to me why primarily textual books would be published without and ebook version these days.
Oh it's vanity press? That explains the...cover. You'd think Kernighan would have no shortage of technical presses willing to put something out on whatever terms he dictated.
This is already #243 out of all Amazon, so I'd say he was correct in this ...
Is there a kindle/digital/ebook version of this book? I can't seem to find it.
This is very frustrating. From what I understand of the publishing industry, the Kindle sales are not counted towards the main NYT best-seller list, so all the focus on the initial launch is around selling the physical copy. This is said to be done to prevent gamification and manipulation, but this still goes on with the hard copies also, where would-be best-selling authors often pay third-party companies to buy a lo…
I can’t remember a single mainstream title that hasn’t had an ebook version for preorder and first day sales. This includes “Bad Blood”, “Super Pumped”, and “Catch and Kill”.
I've always felt we don't appreciate history very much in our industry. I've been lucky enough to work and hang out with some of the co-founders of very impactful projects, such as OpenStack and Cloud Foundry, and there are so many stories I've heard that I'm sure would be insightful and valuable lessons for whomever is embarking on new ideas. And yet, we all move so fast, that there is no time to stop and write them…
The Computer History Museum in San Jose is a great place. I spent an entire day there. They have an excellent YouTube channel with thousands of hours of interviews with important people in the industry. They posted an interview with Brian Kernighan last week. https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTWv-l0JhAc
I've always felt we don't appreciate history very much in our industry. I've been lucky enough to work and hang out with some of the co-founders of very impactful projects, such as OpenStack and Cloud Foundry, and there are so many stories I've heard that I'm sure would be insightful and valuable lessons for whomever is embarking on new ideas. And yet, we all move so fast, that there is no time to stop and write them…
The Computer History Museum in San Jose is a great place. I spent an entire day there. They have an excellent YouTube channel with thousands of hours of interviews with important people in the industry. They posted an interview with Brian Kernighan last week. https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTWv-l0JhAc
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When it comes to Unix, history and the present are one and the same. We have been locked into the same model, the same OS, for decades now. Unix is being developed through small, incremental changes on top of a base that is massively out of date in 2019. We appreciate history far too much . Unix is holding computing back, and it needs to go. It served its purpose, but it's done. It represent very few of the things th…
Let's have this new, wonderful thing or set of things up and running before we retire what we've got, eh?
I bought the book, and read it, enjoying it greatly. Amusingly, Alexa notified me when it arrived, and the notification was "Your purchase UNIX has arrived."
Anyone able to comment on his recent non-programming-language books? For example, how's "Understanding The Digital World"? http://kernighan.com/udw.html