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I had something I bought off eBay on the 2nd of December. Tracking shows it floated about the USPS processing stations until it arrived in Wisconsin somewhere. It's been there since the 8th and every day I check... and it's still there. Lot's of other stuff took a long time but eventually arrived - but this is getting excessive considering the "estimated delivery date was the 7th!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have found USPS deliveries to be uniformly very efficient, except for one package that was rerouted a bit. During the holiday rush, anything is possible, but remember that a lot of their sorting equipment had been removed and other things done that greatly hampered their efficiency.
Although a court ordered it to be reversed, that doesn't mean the current postmaster-general (a political appointee) was in any hurry to do so.
Actually, for all the apologies I've seen in my mail tracking (check out Informed Delivery if you don't already have it), they've been outstanding.
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You would think as we entered a new year, you would have turned over a new leaf..... I guess you just have to wait for it to be delivered first.
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As Bob Seger once said; Turn the page.
Hows the new scope working out?
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Which one? 
The 11" Edge is a beast and can see so much more, still trying to get used to it and optimise my worklow and guiding etc. Only played with it for a short while.
The 11" Rasa is sitting at home waiting for me, I have been away since beginning of November and don't get home until end of January, still doing these long rotations due to covid.
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Ugh, long rotation sucks.
New toy and can't play, that sucks even worse.
We went to Peru last year and the place we stayed was way out from nearest town and they had a small observatory and we got to see rings of Saturn, I was awed.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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( My jaundiced opinion ) you are suffering from the joy of Louis.
( Package track; shipped, south side of Detroit
central Ohio
eastern Ohio
western Pennsylvania - sat there
north side of Detroit
Lansing - delivered. WTF
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My worst package routing experience was just recently, when I ordered 32GB of RAM for my work laptop. It left a Dallas suburb to be delivered to me in a suburb of Cincinnati (935 miles, according to Google). It went to St Paul Minnesota, then to Boise, then to Reno, then Salt Lake City, from there on to Salem, Oregon, then to St Louis, then to Columbus OH (yay, only 100 miles away!), then to Philadelphia, back to Columbus, then to Lexington KY (presumably passing through Cincinnati on it's way!), up to Indianapolis and finally to Cincinnati (total per Google roughly 8100 miles). I guess since it was a small padded envelope, it must have gotten overlooked a few times at various depots along the way.
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks).
I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software.
Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share.
(Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
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The greatest programming fiction of all times. "My code doesn't have any bugs."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Agree. And I have few more to compile.
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Hi,
Check out the fiction by Mark Russinovich[^], it's called the 'Jeff Aiken' series. I don't want to put a direct link because it would probably qualify as spam.
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The series gets my vote. I have all three books, but only read the first one so far.
The only criticism I have is its unnecessary "guy gets the girl at the end" side-story that I felt was rather contrived, and only present in hopes that Hollywood would buy the movie rights and it's only there bring some general appeal for the masses.
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I'll add this to my list. Thank you 
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Check through the various business related sources (books, magazines) that convinced a generation of management that it was cheaper to buy then to build and then, when that didn't work out so well, how they fall-back plan was to outsource overseas because the labor is cheap.
Based upon true events, both plans were embraced by innocent and gullible captains of industry - the articles and books fall under the category of "Fairy Tales" but the actual events, as they unfolded, into many a nightmare.
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Unexpected reply for my question. Corporates.
It's been long time I bought technical books. Course websites like Lynda, Pluralsight & Udemy reduced that.
From last decade, I'm more interested on arts. But still day job is mandatory for now. Recently spending time on writing. Somehow got a thought about writing(not yet) fiction set on this field. That's why I want to read fiction books related to this field.
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Science Fiction can take a lot of somewhat less expected forms. Kurt Vonnegut's bucks aren't really SciFi, or are they?
If you've read them you'd know about the Tralfamadorian concept of time. A thread of literary thought that runs through his books - has always run through his books and will always run through his books.
The border between fiction and science fiction is rather vague - you will come to the place you want to be. Try to make sure it is like yourself and not like anyone else. Like food - you need to sample food from various chef's to get various tastes - but that's only to give you tools for your own recipes.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Science Fiction can take a lot of somewhat less expected forms. Kurt Vonnegut's bucks aren't really SciFi, or are they?
He written Sci-fi too. EPICAC (short story) - Wikipedia[^] by him is related to my question.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: If you've read them you'd know about the Tralfamadorian concept of time. A thread of literary thought that runs through his books - has always run through his books and will always run through his books.
Haven't read any of his books yet. I'll.
I'm a movie fan basically. Due to time constraint, I used to watch movies mostly instead of books(Prime, Netflix, youtube). Only recently, I have started reading more books. For writing, reading is more mandatory & necessary.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: The border between fiction and science fiction is rather vague - you will come to the place you want to be. Try to make sure it is like yourself and not like anyone else. Like food - you need to sample food from various chef's to get various tastes - but that's only to give you tools for your own recipes.
Strongly agree with what you're saying.
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It's sci-fi and has coding as part of the story, an interesting form of coding - The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I heard about this one last last year. Some notable people endorsed this book at that time. Thanks for bringing this.
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I have read better sci-fi but it's definitely worth reading in my opinion.
I also think, without giving anything away, it's very appropriate for the world many of us find ourselves living in at the moment.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: I have read better sci-fi ....
I know. That's why limited this thread with just our field related things instead of including typical Sci-fi.
For example, Office Space[^] is not Sci-fi movie, but it has elements(Programmers, bug-Virus, Workspace & Printer  ) related to our field. So expected this kind of fiction.
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I started this one and got bored to tears and dropped it. Does it get better later on in the book?
One vote against.
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I kind of know what you mean, the characters are very cold and it's hard to remain engaged at times.
I found it was worth sticking with, I enjoyed reading it through to the end.
I am someone who really likes character development in novels and my criticism is that there is no real character development, but the ideas in themselves kept me going.
[Edit] the pace of the novel does pick up after a bit.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 7-Jan-21 9:54am.
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If you can understand german there is a tech-magazine (CT) that comes twice in a month and always have short histories (15 - 20 mins read max) at the end.
95% of them are matching your criteria and there are many that are really good too.
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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