g.johnson Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I'm sorry but I'm a geek. Kernighan & Ritchie's (K&R) The C Programming Language. Follows the geek law of showing you, inside three pages, how to make the computer print out "Hello World". It's not often that one can call a technical manual great but that one is. It changed the way I (and about a billion others) write code. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bloviatrix Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 The Complete Metalsmith by Tim McCreight. My edition is so old (twenty years+) that it was not even set-up with non-serif font, but was reprinted from the author's hand-written text and almost childish, hand-drawn line drawings as illustrations. It is still a seminal work. I love that book! It was my go-to text when I started metalsmithing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NeroW Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Mine hasn't been written yet, but it would be called Restaurants: How To Work Your Ass Off, Make Little Money, And Get Totally Wasted Doing It. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mongo_jones Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 didn't bourdain write that one? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NeroW Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 didn't bourdain write that one? Yes, but he's a hack. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GordonCooks Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 During week - "Supply Chain management - Processes, Performance, & Management" Saturday - 'Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, and Quads" Saturday night - "Pimp Tales, Book One - The Gospel of the Game"....'cause that's how I roll bitches Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NeroW Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I gots to see that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ghostrider Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I'm sorry but I'm a geek. Kernighan & Ritchie's (K&R) The C Programming Language. Follows the geek law of showing you, inside three pages, how to make the computer print out "Hello World". It's not often that one can call a technical manual great but that one is. It changed the way I (and about a billion others) write code. Gee, if I read that can I get a new career with that stuff? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Behemoth Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I'm sorry but I'm a geek. Kernighan & Ritchie's (K&R) The C Programming Language. Follows the geek law of showing you, inside three pages, how to make the computer print out "Hello World". It's not often that one can call a technical manual great but that one is. It changed the way I (and about a billion others) write code. Gee, if I read that can I get a new career with that stuff? Sadly, most things worth learning aren't very useful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ghostrider Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I'm sorry but I'm a geek. Kernighan & Ritchie's (K&R) The C Programming Language. Follows the geek law of showing you, inside three pages, how to make the computer print out "Hello World". It's not often that one can call a technical manual great but that one is. It changed the way I (and about a billion others) write code. Gee, if I read that can I get a new career with that stuff? Sadly, most things worth learning aren't very useful. And the useful things in which I am expert are so bloody limited..... Oh well, as Mr. Micawber always said, something will turn up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orik Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I'm sorry but I'm a geek. Kernighan & Ritchie's (K&R) The C Programming Language. Follows the geek law of showing you, inside three pages, how to make the computer print out "Hello World". It's not often that one can call a technical manual great but that one is. It changed the way I (and about a billion others) write code. Which reminds me, I'm starting to see code submitted to us by candidates who have never been exposed to procedural programming. Anthropologically fascinating. I'm still not sure what my field is though. Something like "quantitative truthiness extraction". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bloviatrix Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Yours for the Asking:An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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