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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by boatzart on Friday December 26, 2014 @01:18AM (#8798238)
Wow, it's going for $3,115.00 (+ $3.99 shipping & handling) on Amazon. Put this next to Sled Driver on my list of books to buy when I win the lottery.
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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by utefan001 on Friday December 26, 2014 @06:31AM (#8798648)
We all win the lottery.

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

http://mirror.xwl.me/Sled%20Driver.pdf

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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by mietek on Friday December 26, 2014 @09:28AM (#8798890)
Would you happen to have a copy of a similarly priced-out book, "How to Avoid Huge Ships"?
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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by utefan001 on Friday December 26, 2014 @11:25AM (#8799191)
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

Google is your friend and Bob's your uncle.

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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by digi_owl on Friday December 26, 2014 @12:15PM (#8799378)
Seems the bots are getting damn creative. Perused the first few pdf links and they were all "spam" pages in PDF form, with embedded download links i don't dear follow.
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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by quotemstr on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:01AM (#8798397)
Isn't algorithmic pricing fun?

Worldcat indicates that the book is available from various libraries: https://www.worldcat.org/title/ignition-an-informal-history-...

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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by cokernel_hacker on Friday December 26, 2014 @05:42AM (#8798609)
I can't help but link to a classic fight between two algorithmic book bots: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by digi_owl on Friday December 26, 2014 @12:02PM (#8799316)
While fun to watch on Amazon, this is a cruder version of what HFT does on the stock market.
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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by quotemstr on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:57PM (#8800340)
Sure, but Amazon pricing is more amusing: the results are visibly and clearly absurd. HFT done right is much subtler.
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