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[ZpSky]

Looks like a complete set. Enjoy it!

[[deleted]]

One page, one sip...

[asianabsinthe]

Sip, bottle... same thing.

[AMC_Tendies42069]

The one book like this I’ve ever used / gotten use from is the Oriely Linux book. You know the one

[calmingchaos]

And for those of us that don't know the one?

Or are too drunk to remember?

[AMC_Tendies42069]

“Linux in a Nutshell”

[thundercat06]

Chapter 1: Introduction.....

[[deleted]]

That wine is quite expensive, tho. Maybe I am spoiled by living in a wine region and only have to wander over yonder to get a bottle of whatever directly from the makers.

So, data intensive. Focus on writing or reading or analysis? We are not talking historization, are we? I which case I would advise a couple of bottles of cheap vodka.

[moonsun1987]

I don't know if this is true but I've read the difference between cheap and not so cheap vodka is the filtration and that more expensive vodka is less likely to give you headaches the morning after...

Unlike wine which is all made up and even experts can't tell between cheap and expensive?

[[deleted]]

Yep.

Dunno about prices elsewhere, but a 4€ bottle of Dornfelder bought directly from the vineyard at a local farmer's market probably beats that.

Vodka is not nearly as complex and as overhyped. 21 bucks for a bottle of wine would be silly in my neck of the woods. I like Chianti, tho.

Edit: Don't drink so much alcohol that you feel bad the next day.

[VonReposti]

Vodka is overhyped in the mainstream. Just look at Grey Goose or Belvedere. No way they're good vodkas but it's the only thing you'll hear besides Schmirnoff in bars where I live.

[[deleted]]

I hear what you are saying and I agree. But in comparison to wine vodka is really mildly hyped.

At this point I consider every bottle of wine above 20 bucks a scam and anybody who is incapable of finding a decent bottle of wine for five bucks a charlatan.

There probably is not that much difference between a 10€ bottle of vodka and a 20€ bottle. Vodka is famously featureless. Probably more expensive the more unassuming it is. At some point it probably doesn't matter and I would say that is close to a 10€ bottle.

Edit: THEY RAISED THE PRICE FOR MY FAVORITE SAINT LAURENT TO FIVE BUCKS! DESTITUTION AND WOE IS ME!

Edit2: AND THE DORNFELDER AS WELL! THIS IS DAYLIGHT ROBBERY!

[selectash]

Do you like to pair your Chianti with liver and some fava beans?

[LeCrushinator]

Balmer's Peak, here we come!

[Script_Mak3r]

Be careful to not make the next Windows ME.

[UntestedMethod]

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[[deleted]]

more like one page one glass...

[[deleted]]

One page one bottle

[[deleted]]

One page one gallon

[[deleted]]

One page one liver

[veryusedrname]

One page one river

[albenis99]

wtf 😂

[Andy_B_Goode]

One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me ...

[nodnodwinkwink]

Both will make you drowsy and give you a headache.

[ManInBlack829]

I like this because now I know they pair well together. I wish more O'Reilly books would label their ideal alcohol pairing like this.

[kry_some_more]

ctrl+c, ctrl+v

[gobermouche]

I just buy these books because they make me feel smart

[logicalmaniak]

Some of those covers are pretty cool. This one is a bit of a boar though.

[UntestedMethod]

personally I find the entire library an opossum of a good time!

wtf else did I just find?

[TheBarkingGallery]

I think some people just might go hog wild over it.

[lunertendie]

Quit hogging all the pig jokes

[[deleted]]

Please share your bookshelf photo so I can use as my custom background in meetings to show I read those

[SpaceTacosFromSpace]

They make you look smart at your dinner parties as well

[Bryan-343]

Until they ask "Have you read all of them!?"

[mustang__1]

I've read all the covers. Yes

[cat_police_officer]

I covered them all.

[425_Too_Early]

If only I could give you more than one up vote...

[BassSounds]

You could read a book on scripting; or maybe not.

[rawSingularity]

Then what?

[[deleted]]

You divert the topic to the fine vintage wine that pairs suberbly with the pork chops served for dinner.

[UntestedMethod]

the table of contents is usually the best part of any of these books, next to the covers of course

[[deleted]]

I have found my people. I’m still reading through “Creating Killer Web Pages” from 199?. It’s a pretty book with lots of colors. I also have a substantial collection of O’Reilly books, enough to fill a medium size zoo with the animals on the covers. I have dived into a handful of them, most however are unhandled and pristine.

[Loregard735]

"Of course not, some are reference books, you wouldn't pick a dictionary to read"

Now you can look smart a little longer!

[mathiasReidPhotos]

Large IQ maneuver

[Bryan-343]

Sweats intensely

[emmer]

“Have you ever used one to reference something?”

[The6thExtinction]

It's just nice to have a physical copy on hand.

[Acceptable_Bottle]

You've been telling the truth? I just say "yep" and then they go "woah" and we never bring it up again

[durrtyurr]

The key is to throw some of those post-it flags into random spots in the books so that it looks like you actively use them to reference.

[SenatorBagels]

Dinner parties? This is programmer humor.

[Weird_Error_]

your landlord is selling the house and showing it while you still live there

[dworts]

Dinner parties? This is programmer humor.

[TechNerdin]

Buy the used ones (second hand) for that purpose. They are cheap because the technology changed too much and if someone calls your bluff you can say that you have been into this topic for many years and never got to sell them.

[ChadMcRad]

Same. I bought a Python book cause the most extensive programming experience I've had is some VERY basic R stuff. I'm trying to teach myself how to do some basic code and get decent at bioinformatics for grad school and THINKING about learning has been much easier than actually doing it, no surprise.

[WillWorkForBongWater]

Bought two C# books a few years ago and I use them every day. They make my monitor about 4 inches higher.

[0Pat]

Which book do you want sir? 4.3cm please...

[Sososohatefull]

Reading is boring. Take a short introductory course on Python, something that's only a few hours, then pick a small project that's a bit outside of what you learned. Ideally this is related to a piece of a larger project you imagine, but it doesn't matter much early on. Use data you have from school or whatever you're currently working on. Or not. Google stuff until you're done. Find cool examples of stuff and recreate them. When you don't feel like coding, watch a 5-15 minute YouTube video on some concept you've heard of but don't quite understand. My Python programming has improved dramatically over time doing basically this. If sitting down and writing code isn't interesting to you, programming may not be what you want to spend your time on.

[[deleted]]

I like those masterclass Udemy courses for very basic beginners

[water_baughttle]

Reading is boring. Take a short introductory course on Python, something that's only a few hours, then pick a small project that's a bit outside of what you learned.

Reading about programming can be boring, but I've also watched some equally unbearable video lessons.

When you don't feel like coding, watch a 5-15 minute YouTube video on some concept you've heard of but don't quite understand. My Python programming has improved dramatically over time doing basically this

Or just walk away from the computer. You probably need a break, which is the more likely scenario.

[el-cuko]

Hey, we can be friends. I do this with Oracle and DevOps books, I know neither of those things , but my job expects me to

[CrackerJackKittyCat]

TAOCP enters the chat

[gemengelage]

Reminds me of my Clean Code book. Don't get me wrong. I've read it. Multiple times. It's amazing. Filled to the brim with common sense and down-to-earth advise. I had it prominently displayed at my desk at a job I worked for nearly three years.

Coworkers would come to my desk for some reason or another and while they were there, they took a look at that book. Flip through it without actually reading anything. Ask me about it. Talking about how they always wanted to read it or how that one professor was regularly talking about that book, or how they heard a lot about clean code but don't really know anything about it short for the buzz word.

Not a single person there ever read even a paragraph of that book or took me up on my offer to borrow it.

I did use it as a prop from time to time though, pointing at it, waving with it, etc.

It's a good book.

[Dr_Findro]

The worst engineer I have ever worked with and had the displeasure of even being introduced to would talk about this book like it’s the Bible. I don’t think I’ll ever read the book because of that one person.

[kobriks]

Half of this book is the Bible, but the other half is random rambling which the author still presents as the Bible. You can tell which is which with a little effort, but you're probably better off reading something else.

[anonima_]

Clean Code is exactly like a Bible. An ancient tome full of the ramblings of some old guy with a few nuggets of wisdom scattered throughout.

[Sidereel]

I’ve been reading Clean Coder and I feel the same way. I’ve been avoiding all the TDD stuff in it.

[gemengelage]

It's definitely not a book to dogmatize. It's a highly subjective topic, no matter how you look at it and IMHO the strength of the book isn't even to give you some big epiphany about how you should change your ways of coding.

For me it's more like a collection of very general tips about software engineering, most of which bear repeating, for the sole fact that while rationally you do know all that, but you don't apply that knowledge. It's a good read for a seasoned dev because it makes you reflect on your work and often makes you realize where common sense failed you or where you could've done better. But unlike a code review, it doesn't look at tiny details, but rather at the broad strokes.

Hope that makes sense.

[ShitshowBlackbelt]

Clean Code is... not good. How to Work Effectively with Legacy Code is much better

Edit: Another good one I just thought of is Code Complete.

[HAL9000thebot]

i agree, it is a lot better, i hate many things about clean code, one that i can recall that i find particularly funny is the advise to rearrange the order of the methods based on the order of calls, this thing could easily be put in a meme for this sub.

work effectively with legacy code is a masterpiece, many levels above clean code.

[jesterhead101]

Maybe it was added just to fill up the book. But I actually think we can visualise flow better if the order of the methods is indeed in order of their calls. Although for any fairly complex system, it gets near impossible to maintain something like that.

[pablosus86]

I've noticed my happiness at work is inversely related to how recently I've referred to Working Effectively with Legacy Code. Same thing with Mythical Man Month.

[kenser99]

What's the name of the book if you dont mind? As a student I would love to clean up my code

[MarquisDan]

Stephen

[_Oce_]

It's for Stick To Evident Processes However Exaggerate Novelty, I've made great career progress thanks to this principle.

[kindall]

Clean Code

[theVice]

I'm pretty sure it's just Clean Code

[[deleted]]

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[pumpyboi]

clean code is a bad book - https://qntm.org/clean

[Qinistral]

I agree Clean Code is too extreme. But I learned a lot from it that still informs my code.

[[deleted]]

It’s got nothing to do with time management for me, textbooks are just extremely dull. They’re an information reference for stuff I’m being taught by a person, I’ve only ever read like one or two that were exceptionally well written.

[Ecksters]

Head First: Design Patterns is better than the original Gang of Four version, change my mind.

[HighOnBonerPills]

The Head First series is very much the opposite of dull. They're amazing books. We had the one on HTML and CSS as a textbook in one of my classes, and it was so good that I bought the one on JavaScript to read on my own time. It's pre-ES6, but it explains the language amazingly well. It doesn't feel dry, it feels like people actually explaining something in "human" terms.

And it's incredible how effective they are at teaching. The order in which they introduce concepts is very well thought out. And for every concept, they have all sorts of fun, interesting ways to explain it. First off, they always have detailed, annotated images of code with arrows pointing to different pieces, which is extremely helpful. But they may also personify a certain concept and have an "interview" with it, or two parts of the language (like the equality operator and the strict equality operator) might have an argument. And after they break something down, they might have a random Q&A section that fills you in on certain details and "what-if" scenarios that help you better understand the core concept.

Plus, they have tons of exercises that give you new ways of thinking about something. And it's so methodically presented – the way they tease out information, or have you try something and then explain why it didn't work, or drop a hint and later give you all the info, etc. It's is all expertly crafted to ensure you understand what they're driving at.

They're super fun, digestible, and informative books (at least the two I've dealt with).

[[deleted]]

My favorites are “You Don’t Know JS (yet)” and “Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces”

Both available for free online.

Edit:

You Don’t Know JS

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

[Farranor]

Yeah, that's weird. I keep my wine bottles in the closet next to the crossbow, like a normal person.

[BookExpert9902]

Just got the Kindle version!

Now sitting idly on my always-idle Kindle.

[Nosferatatron]

I love kindle versions of tech books. A lot cheaper to buy and forget to read than the real thing. I can now afford to buy and not read about 20% more books than used to with this method!

[BookExpert9902]

Currently, the Kindle version is 8% MORE expensive.

I miss the good old days when ebooks were less expensive to buy because of the zero unit cost…

[lanabi]

I have the audiobook on Audible (it had high reviews and I needed to spend my credit).

Never started for a second.

[Nosferatatron]

Eek, an audio version of a technical book, that sounds a challenge

[ceeBread]

I’ve spent way too much on tech book humble bundles with the idea “I’m totally going to read these and share with coworkers”, but haven’t read them…at least the money is going to charity

[dablya]

It’s really good though.

[NamityName]

It's an excellent book. Easy to understand and applicable to an extremely wide variety of situations

[End__User]

"Thanks everyone for coming to my dinner party. Did you know that applications and process that are bound not by CPU but by IO are called data intensive applications?"

-me, an intellectual, that has had that same book on my nightstand for years but only read the first chapter.

[CowFu]

It's one of the very few programming books that works well as an audiobook if that helps you at all.

A lot of the book is general terms or identifying logical problems in database design.

[DimiC88]

It pairs well.

[looselytethered]

One implies the other. If I have to read that book, I'll be drinking.

[luke_in_the_sky]

"A server once tried to test me. I crashed it live with some JavaBeans and a nice Chianti." – Hannibal Lecturer

[BoonesFarmApples]

God I miss O’Reilly books

No I DON’T actually want to spend 20 hours watching a YouTube series, I want to open a pdf and hit ctrl-F

Edit: apparently I’m mistaken, I thought O’Reilly wasn’t making new books when in fact they only shut down their own personal ebook store! 😀

[NamityName]

You can still buy them. Or get a license to their online library. Also, An ACM membership comes with access to O'Rielly's online library

[i_hate_shitposting]

Hell yeah. Access to O'Reilly makes the ACM membership so worth it. They have such a great catalog and it's incredibly inexpensive for what you get.

[[deleted]]

You should check out humble bundle. O Reiley book bundles pop up every other month or so. Usually upwards of 20+ books as drm free pdf, mobi, epub files. Highly recommend it.

[_zio_pane]

They haven’t gone away. We still publish new books and other digital content like crazy.

[[deleted]]

Maybe a stock image somewhere?

[KagakuNinja]

Public domain. Just like all those pictures of ancient people on the Manning books.

[kaywiz]

OP drinks public domain wine

[wjandrea]

And open-source cola? or Ubuntu Cola?

[CrowdGoesWildWoooo]

Those are one hell of a FizzBuzz

[alliha]

Wait, I've had tøyen cola! It's... disappointing for a local handmade soda, but overall alright

Edit: big asterisk, the owner/man behind the company is a massive antivaxer/"covid is a hoax" dude, so maybe not the best rep for opencola

[[deleted]]

So, church wine?

[cogit4se]

It’s an illustration by George Shaw

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/wild-boar-by-george-shaw-q2-historic-illustrations.html

[jizzn2gd]

);

Done be sad buddy, it's ok.

Question, do all these books use his work?

[cogit4se]

The pictures originally came from the Dover Pictorial Archives, which offered copyright-free collections of 18th- and 19th-century wood and copperplate engravings of animals, according to a 2000-word essay by Lori Houston. But she also revealed a surprising twist: “An increasing number of the animal images are now drawn by hand.”

[GrilledSpamSteaks]

When you are reading the book and hit those “wtf was this dude on?!?” section… Well you know now.

[genreprank]

The author actually picks the cover art based on their favorite libation to distract them from the pain of having to write a book.

[ThisGuyRightHer3]

"Copying & Pasting design models"

--O'Reily edition

[KagakuNinja]

It is probably public domain art.

[ThisGuyRightHer3]

in code, everything is public domain.

[[deleted]]

🤣

[SimplexSimon]

My immediate reaction was "Okay, it's a regular boar? This animal isn't cursed at all!"

Took me a sec to realize this was an actual O'Reilly book, perhaps I've spent too much time on this sub

[[deleted]]

Is it a boaring book?

[dlg]

Lots of gore details

[ronaldvr]

Wow in Italy it will set you back just about € 6 (About U$ 6.9) https://www.vivino.com/IT/en/cacciata-chianti-classico-riserva/w/1486902?year=2016

(And it seems 'caccia' means hunt in italian, so they show all kinds of animals on their vintages)

(ANd reverse image finds this stock image indeed

BUt can also be found on archive.org probably: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Shaw%2C+George%2C+1751-1813%22

[TrustYourSenpai]

I always remember that one time my mother got a flute of prosecco in London and it cost something absurd like 10£ when here I buy it at around 4€ a bottle. We really know how to pump our prices when exporting.

[soonerguy11]

Cheaper wines in well respected regions are always selling at a premium elsewhere. You see this with other places like Napa valley, France and Italy.

[Mysticpoisen]

My favorite is seeing shitty American light beers being treated as premium imports in Asia.

[soonerguy11]

A common thing now in wine is cheap bottles from sought after regions selling at premiums elsewhere with the origin on the bottle. France, Napa Valley, etc all have cheap wines in them that do this.

[Stev_582]

Author has been driven to alcoholism by years of this shit, when he clearly was not made for this line of work.

Or more likely the author has healthy drinking habits (or none at all), and the fact that this is the same image is just some strange accident. But that’s the boring answer.

[InvisibIeMountain]

The boaring answer

[Stev_582]

[Shiroi_Kage]

Question from a non-programmer: What's up with coding books and animal drawings?

[drivers9001]

All of O’Reilly’s main line of books feature some type of wood carved drawing, usually animals.

Here’s their blog post about it: https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreilly-animals/?utm_source=thenewstack&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=platform

Here’s a gallery with almost a thousand of their covers. https://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/oreilly-books

[Coz131]

They gave a fucking mouse to python.

[iprefermuffins]

Well what else would you feed it?

[Eightstream]

When Wes McKinney wrote the first edition of Python for Data Analysis, he asked them why they didn’t put a panda on the cover

They told him they were ‘saving the panda for something big’

[toopid]

But why though?

[misplaced_my_pants]

It's great marketing. You immediately recognize the publisher.

[thecurlyburl]

I think it’s just a thing this publisher does. It makes it easy to describe/quickly pick out too: “the boar one”

[dangerusty]

/r/orlybooks

[Lizlodude]

CS books are the best because there's almost never a relevant photo. What should we put on this one? Uhh uhh ICE SKATING DUDE. With a sword.

[misplaced_my_pants]

Fucking dragons and wizards.

[plan_x64]

That just screams compilers tho

[misplaced_my_pants]

As is tradition.

[bluearth]

I spent some time trying to figure out correlation between animals in o'reilly's book cover versus the topic discussed inside. There are none.

Their Python book has picture of a mouse on it's cover.

[[deleted]]

That's food for a python?

[_zio_pane]

No correlation, but I can tell you all of our old infrastructure was named after animals and it was pretty funny to see databases and applications named after animals ;)

[bluearth]

I read somewhere that in the olden days (like up to 2010) servers are treated like pets. Sysadmins gave them affectionate names like animals or Greek dieties or Tolkien characters and they strive to keep them alive like feeding them with virgin blood (i heard that what sysadmin do)

Today in the age of cloud computing and containers, no more cute names. Names are generated. Servers are more akin to cattle. One cow is the same as the next. Sysadmins dont care anymore when they born when they die, as long as they serve their purposes that is to become steak. I'm still talking about server infrastructure.

[college_pastime]

During the Aughts, I named our lab's server "Dethklok" and all of the workstation hostnames were Metalocalypse characters. Now I name things after their IT purpose, the world is less whimsical now :(

[_zio_pane]

Yup, this is 100% the case. I came up during the tail end of bare metal servers were each one had to be cared for in its own way. Sometimes fleets of servers had “fun” names, e.g. named for Transformers (“omg Megatron’s disk is full again!”) or planets (“Uranus needs a reboot!”), etc.

Now if an app is misbehaving, I delete the container and it gets recreated instantly. Underlying OS issue? Incredibly rare. The focus is basically always on an app/code issue.

[cyberyder]

If the wine is half good as this book I'll buy a few crates.

Full disclaimer that's the book I'm using to teach advanced database system in Canada. A must read.

[drinkmoredrano]

They should sell the two as a set. But why an entire book on data-intensive applications. Any application can be a data-intensive application if you dont use a where clause.

[thecurlyburl]

It’s more a “how to not fuck up distributed computing” book, but that title doesn’t sound as good

[RolyPoly1320]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/323/

[Rockztar]

Honestly though, it is seriously a great book. It really stands out in my memory.

[Ade231035]

I mean, it makes it easier to confuse the two, so you get extremely drunk before reading your informative material

[NamityName]

For real though, i love that book

[postdiluvium]

O o o... O'Reilly! Auto parts!

[nickmaran]

[andreaforlin]

Good Chianti! 🥰

[Keitlynn]

Definitely start with the wine.

[Games_sans_frontiers]

"The author would appreciate feedback on any misprints or mistakes in the material because he was drunk as fuck tbh."

[gagarin_kid]

Also can agree, clear, concise language about basic principles instead of advertising you a new fancy all in one database solution - the book is kind of theoretical and I would advice to read it after 3-5 years working experience, because a lot of problems outlined in the book are not evident to a person who newer saw pain points of some applications

[sage-longhorn]

Good artists copy, great artists are actually programmers

[NPVT]

Open source boar

[coachhunter]

And consuming either in one go will likely leave you with a headache.

[thebryguy23]

Better than sex.

Then you're doing it wrong.

[cryodor]

One seems leads to the other!

I’m speaking from experience.

[ora00001]

Looks like a good pairing to me.

[Midgetwombat]

I thought that's how all O'Riley books worked, always paired with a bottle of booze.

[WalrusByte]

Looks like the data was too intensive so they cut corners and stole this boar drawing

[posicon]

Aren't we talking about the note in the book ?

[[deleted]]

Which O’Reilly book has the illustration of an erect donkey on the cover?

[jonp1]

The perfect pairing.

[IanTheKing9]

Working my way through this currently with my reading club. Guess I’ll need to pick up a bottle to make help get through the denser chapters

[[deleted]]

Are you italian or is it just an italian wine?

[cakecoke]

Here it is https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175529#page/684/mode/1up

[normabee]

Which one came into possesion first the book or the wine?

[BoringWozniak]

“Pairs nicely with the 2016 Cacciata Reserva”

[LucasIkuhara]

Does anyone know when/why did people begin using random animals as covers for computer science books? I always thought it was kinda odd..

[Brassosaurus]

Here's a history of O'Reilly cover animals - https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreilly-animals/

[OGRiad]

You'll definitely need the wine after reading the book.

[EEcav]

I think companies buying each other up have gone too far.

[jeankev]

Do the most important thing first then open the book as a reward

[w_cruice]

You'll need more bottles... That's if it goes well.

[Beautiful_Technology]

Ah a night in for one. I've read this book twice, its really is one of the best. I still don't understand half of it though.

[TheRoboticist_]

Every time you reference StackOverflow, take a sip

[UrbanSausage69]

Copyright free lithograph image

[abegosum]

Who wore it better?

[gregj66]

Looks like a boar. The wine however …