Z totaliztycznym salutem!
Do USA bookstores look like this nowadays?
<https://fqa.9front.org/books.jpg>
?
What I meant was the For Dummies series on the top shelf.
At Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:11:38 +0200, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> wrote:
Z totaliztycznym salutem!
Do USA bookstores look like this nowadays?
<https://fqa.9front.org/books.jpg>
?
What I meant was the For Dummies series on the top shelf.
I'm not sure what that has to do with Linux...?
But I'll bite: No. Is that what you see in Poland, by Jingo?
Also, take a look at my ObLinux:
ObLinux: Friday, I had trouble where an office worker saw
a digital signage display "not working", so they hit the
"off" button on the remote. (This is actually "standby".)
It's a Fire TV -- an Android device -- and I did a kind of
"hail Mary" and sent it a wake-on-lan packet from the tiny
Linux controller box -- and it woke up!
etherwake(8) to the rescue! :)
Also used to be a fair selection of books on various programming
languages and systems. For some reason a lot on "Perl" ... maybe they
didn't sell ?
Again not sure if they can be found now.
The Barnes & Noble brick and mortar store used to have several full rowsSame here. I like the feel of actual books. Something about the pages
of programming books. I went in a month ago and found the programming
books were in one small section about 3' wide.
I like the feel of actual books. Something about the pages
spread out before me seems more appealing than keeping a terminal with
Most open and my program in another (or in Emacs, etc).
We live in a time of information overload. What a time to be alive.
Do USA bookstores look like this nowadays?
<https://fqa.9front.org/books.jpg>
?
What I meant was the For Dummies series on the top shelf.
Today there's just a small spot. I'd imagine most people are getting
their computer science information online rather than buy expensive
books.
My Java book is around $50+,
The "for dummies" series was pretty popular for awhile. Last time I
checked the physical store, there were only a couple books about games
in Python, something non-trivial to do with C, and maybe a few about
specific applications in the Microsoft orbit.
On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:11:38 +0200, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:
Do USA bookstores look like this nowadays?
<https://fqa.9front.org/books.jpg>
?
What I meant was the For Dummies series on the top shelf.
LOL at the fact that none of those books are about “Computer Science”.
Do they have “λ-Calculus For Dummies”?
On 2026-06-23, jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:
We live in a time of information overload. What a time to be alive.
Yup. But it's like drinking from a fire hose:
you can do it, but you have to be careful.
The Internet is like a big city: full of bright lights
and excitement, but also dark alleys down which the
unwary get mugged.
On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:11:38 +0200, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:
Do USA bookstores look like this nowadays?
<https://fqa.9front.org/books.jpg>
?
What I meant was the For Dummies series on the top shelf.
LOL at the fact that none of those books are about “Computer Science”.
Do they have “λ-Calculus For Dummies”?
On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:20:57 -0400, jayjwa wrote:
Today there's just a small spot. I'd imagine most people are getting
their computer science information online rather than buy expensive
books.
When we started the Angular project I bought 'ng-book The Complete Book on Angular 6' 6 was May 2018. By the time I became involved a year the
project had moved to Angular 8. One of the programmers gave me the ebook version. It's up to 22 now, with even more changes. My calculus text from
60 years ago, if I still had it, would still be pertinent. A software book from last year, not so much.
My Java book is around $50+,
I bought 'Java in a Nutshell' in the 2nd edition. It was a fairly slim
book to match the slim, lithe Java of '97. Like the high school hottie
that turned into a 350 pound harridan I lost interest about the time Swing reared its head.
The "for dummies" series was pretty popular for awhile. Last time I
checked the physical store, there were only a couple books about games
in Python, something non-trivial to do with C, and maybe a few about
specific applications in the Microsoft orbit.
I've got 'Flute for Dummies' and it's pretty good. I can play an Irish flute/tin whistle but they only have 6 holes and do D and G. I bought a
cheap Boehm flute and it has a lot more moving parts to figure out. An
Irish flute has zero moving parts so that's a low bar.
I think I had JIANS too ... it went into the trash when I retired
because by then I realized I'd never use Java.
Do NOT remember seeing any for 'computer science' per-se.
But that's not ACTUALLY about real computers ... more stats and
formal method analysis and other stuff that won't get anything done.
On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:08:28 -0400, c186282 wrote:
I think I had JIANS too ... it went into the trash when I retired
because by then I realized I'd never use Java.
We had one application that used Java and I tried to stay well away from
it. In its defense it started life as an applet that could be easily installed in remote sheriff substations to give them an overview of what
was happening. Then it grew and browsers stopped running applets.
Microsoft's Visual J++ wasn't all that bad but a suit by Sun shut it down.
C# has a lot of J++ DNA.
My first attempt with Java was a simple AVR simulator. If you expect to
bang bits don't use Java. Then it kept grow and getting slower and slower. The answer on Java forums was 'you need a faster machine.' I haven't used
it in a long time but Eclipse was slower than shit. NetBeans was worse.
Moving from Java in the Arduino v1 IDE to Electron/Javascript in v2 was an improvement.
Z totaliztycznym salutem!
Do USA bookstores look like this nowadays?
<https://fqa.9front.org/books.jpg>
?
What I meant was the For Dummies series on the top shelf.
On 2026-06-23, jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:
We live in a time of information overload. What a time to be alive.
Yup. But it's like drinking from a fire hose:
you can do it, but you have to be careful.
The Internet is like a big city: full of bright lights
and excitement, but also dark alleys down which the
unwary get mugged.
Still have "Algorithms In 'C'" (Sedgewick) and a fewTh advent of the internet caused me to throw most of my books out.
other 'right down to it' guides - and, of course, my
K&R book.
On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:22:31 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:11:38 +0200, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:
Do USA bookstores look like this nowadays?
<https://fqa.9front.org/books.jpg>
?
What I meant was the For Dummies series on the top shelf.
LOL at the fact that none of those books are about “Computer Science”. >>
Do they have “λ-Calculus For Dummies”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy
Well before dummies...
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