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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by msie on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:36AM (#10811059)
Sooo many good books! I'm exhausted! Here are some good ones:

MPEG Video Compression Standard:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b115884

Chaos and Fractals:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97624

Proofs from THE BOOK:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-05412-3

Joel on Software:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-0753-5

Programming Challenges:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97559

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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by userbinator on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @05:04AM (#10811494)
If you are interested in the first one, I'd recommend this too:

Data Compression

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97635

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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by blub on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @08:01AM (#10811876)
None of the links work for me, even though I was able to download a few hours ago. I have the option to purchase...
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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by nikkev on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @08:02AM (#10811879)
Seems to have gone dead. Maybe it was a bug at Springer or a brief promotion.
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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by erdbeerkuchen on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @08:14AM (#10811909)
I cannot download any of these for free. Could it have to do with me accessing the site from Germany?
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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by icebraining on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @08:16AM (#10811914)
Nah, it seems they shut it down already. Probably a bug :)
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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by zappo2938 on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @05:23AM (#10811532)
The Things You Should Never Do, Part One by Joel Spolsky should be mandatory reading for every tech executive.[1] Springer might add more value to the texts by enabling Medium style side comments on an HTML version for readers to either ask for help or for experts to clarify and extend. Use the job posting business model to post jobs in the comments in specific disciplines of the texts to create revenue.

[1] http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4302-0753-5_2...

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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by frik on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @06:37AM (#10811686)
Chapter 4, page 313 is quite an interesting read (2000 vs 2015 point of view)

The corrected link from page 316 (bottom) - hilarious: http://web.archive.org/web/20001203002400/http://microsoft.c...

Page 325 talks about the porting effort which didn't work out, and the Wasabi language was born: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FogBugz#History

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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by jcl on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @02:37PM (#10813846)
Here's the original blog post, for anyone who was interested in reading it after Springer decided to reinstate its $30-per-chapter charge:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

(While I know they charge like this for most of their e-books, this particular example is embarrassing.)

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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by stplsd on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @07:57AM (#10811862)
MPEG Video Compression Standard:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b115884

It says restricted to me and offers me to buy chapter for

$29.95 and whole book for $229.00

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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by muon on Thursday December 31, 2015 @03:36AM (#10816827)
Did you get the book "Proofs from The Book" while it was open to download?
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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by Amanjeev on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @08:23AM (#10811943)
None of these work for me.
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Re:Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for F... by aslammuet on Thursday December 31, 2015 @01:43AM (#10816557)
I am not able to download Programming Challenges book.
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