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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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