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Wiz Biz series by Rick Cook is one of my favorite series about programming in magic.
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Yeah, found this series recently, looks good!
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Definitely, thanks for this
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If I'm in the mood, I reach for some Neal Stephenson, so that's a very good start.
Not specifically programming as such, but very engineering/tech based. Snow Crash (below) is described as "like many of Stephenson's novels, it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy."
My personal favourites:
* Interface
* Diamond Age
* Cryptonomicon
* Snow Crash
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Yeah, Recently added his books(Snow Crash & Cryptonomicon) to my list
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Do you mean things like Digital Fortress (Dan Brown)?
What makes it a "programming" novel? (would the movie Hackers count as a book?)
And based on 30+ years of experience... WHY? I live in a fictional Programming world, where we were just asked to deliver a small 12 week project by Feb 1st. COMPLETED, and they are still "working out" the contract they hope to sign by Monday/Tuesday of next week.
I think I get MORE than enough FICTION... LOL...
[On the bright side, if we pound in 90hr work weeks, bring in some extra resources (ROTFLMAO), and put other projects on hold... I am CONFIDENT that by Feb 1st. We will have 80% of the ANSWERS to the questions we gave them last week. LOL)... And you want to read MORE Fiction?
My gosh... Where do you work? (And how do you have time to read?)
LOL
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: Do you mean things like Digital Fortress (Dan Brown)?
I heard that it handled programming things incorrectly/badly even though it's a known novel by a popular author. But this thread has bunch of perfect novels related to programming.
Kirk 10389821 wrote: What makes it a "programming" novel? (would the movie Hackers count as a book?)
Different thread needed for movies later.
Kirk 10389821 wrote: And based on 30+ years of experience... WHY? I live in a fictional Programming world, where we were just asked to deliver a small 12 week project by Feb 1st. COMPLETED, and they are still "working out" the contract they hope to sign by Monday/Tuesday of next week.
I'm also in similar boat with 16+ years of exp.
Kirk 10389821 wrote: My gosh... Where do you work? (And how do you have time to read?)
Thanks to EBooks! I buy ebooks from smashwords, kickstarter, amazon kindle(Also I use kindle unlimited). My laptop, tablet & smartphone loaded with these ebooks so I'll be reading something anytime. This is happening only from last couple of years only(It was hard to read books regularly in past), I'll be continuing this forever. Unfortunately I need to cool myself with more movies & books to escape from nightmare work regularly. I'm better than before.
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Thanks for the last one  Others are already in my list
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From a long time ago, I read this book. Technology is dated but it's still prophetic. The Adolescence of P-1 by Thomas J. Ryan. I doubt you'll get it in digital form, so you'll have to either buy the paperback or try a library (I know, huh?).
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Thanks for this And yeah, there's no digital version.
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You talked me into it: I've ordered a Gaggia Naviglio Silver, mostly because the reviews are good, the price is good, the coffee is (apparently) good, and it's one of the few machines where the water tank and waste bucket are accessible from the front of the machine instead of the back!
Given where I want to put it, that's a good idea.
One of the reasons I didn't use my older Espresso machine (a Kenwood Cafe Retro) too much was that the water tank needed the machine pulled away from the wall about 50cm to fill it (or even check it). Plus the steam wand was poor and hard to clean.
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I was right . . . you're in a much better pay-grade than I.
My last two coffee-makers (admittedly I put the scoop in the coffee and add the water myself) were (1) free after rebates, and (2) ca. $25, refurbished.
Both featured reusable filters and you poured the water in from the copy you wished to brew into, thus assuring a precise measurement (sans that absorbed by the coffee). The former, which also included a ceramic mug, only lasted about ten years.
The later has helped bring me to a better place this very day and will likely continue to do so. ☕
So - will what you got really make coffee over 40x better? What am I missing?
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I was right . . . you're in a much better pay-grade than I.
Or as my father says:
Quote: I am too old to buy cheap.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I learned that a long time ago: there is a reason it's cheap, and it ain't gonna last.
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It should be better - purely because the grind-to-brew time is minimal - but incrementally, rather than exponentially. The coffee I make in the Cafetiere is pretty good (I think, at least), so I'm looking for "parity or better" rather than vast improvement.
But it should be quicker and easier.
And a toy - it's a birthday present for me after all! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: And a toy - it's a birthday present for me after all!
Now I haven't shopped around or anything, but that coffee maker probably cost as much as purchasing a concubine from overseas.
It seems that that particular purchase, as a present to you, of course, could not only make you your coffee but supply other important services. Send said purchase out to work and it's a self-sustaining investment.
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If I desired a divorce, then that would be a service that course of action would indeed provide ...
And I suspect that the "running costs" would far exceed the "purchase price"!
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OriginalGriff wrote: If I desired a divorce,
Now that's where you need to put all of your talents and skills to work.
Convince her you're acquiring an assistant for her to ease her through her busy days. How hard could that possibly be?*
* She accepts the sheep, already, if I'm not mistaken.
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Obligatory Dilbert arc
(1997-Jan-06 to 1997-Jan-10)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I drink 1-2 cups a day.
So, I installed an instant-on hot water heater, and a high-end water filter [LOVE IT].
I use folgers instant coffee... And you know what? I never have to wait.
It tastes great. No extras.
And the CLEANUP is ONE CUP! (Honest).
I think my coffee costs me a few pennies a cup. I can make like 6 cups in a row, if we have guests...
We just never tell them it is instant... LOL
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Folgers was what my grandmother used - as far as instants go, it's near the top end. I have a brother who did exactly as you, coffee-temperature-demand-hot-water and all - but he has since lowered his standards and now use Keurig. It recent time, if you'd had a chance to try them, StarBucks came out with an instant coffee that I could only tell from fresh-brewed by the tiny specs of debris in the real coffee. A side-by-side test, too. Not cheap.
Fortunately, I'm not a gourmet with coffee - different degrees of near-swill will do if the caffeine need is great. To avoid the free swill (at work when I went to that place) I would put beverage-hot water from a water 'cooler' into my cup containing very finely ground coffee. Not as instant as your instant, but it is real brewed coffee, as fresh as possible. I have the option (missing with your route) of varying the coffee type (espresso, Sumatra dark, Cafe Caribe, etc.). Extraordinary cheap. too, and only the one cup to clean up.
(a funny thing: Folger's ground coffee falls flat).
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%$&*! Half a childs' horse, uncooked 59 times? (7)
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What? No, that's not the answer.
We seem to have gone from easing in gently, (yesterday), to...  
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