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Book Review: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 4th Oct 2005 23:18 UTC

Addison-Wesley sent us in the hardcover second edition of the popular book title "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" and we had a quick look at this classic.

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just an ad

by doug on Wed 5th Oct 2005 01:21 UTC

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2005-07-07

How much money does osnews gets by buying the book via that link?
The actual review content of this story is pretty thin.

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RE: just an ad

by on Wed 5th Oct 2005 01:27 in reply to "just an ad"

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Duh.
How do you think the business models on these sites work?
The sky is blue, as well.

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Re: The sky is blue, as well.

by Lazarus on Wed 5th Oct 2005 01:29 in reply to "RE: just an ad"

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2005-08-10

Is not! It's black!

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RE: just an ad

by Eugenia on Wed 5th Oct 2005 01:28 in reply to "just an ad"

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2005-06-28

First of all, the book deserves its reputation as one of the best tech books in the trade.

And to answer your question about the link, it's about 1% per copy *sold*, I think. And it's not myself who gets that (very little) money btw, none of the osnews editors are getting paid. So, I hardly find this to be an 'ad' on my part. I have nothing to gain other than making a worthy book more known to the tech community. And I don't happen to be married to Mr Stevens either.

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RE[2]: just an ad

by skx2 on Wed 5th Oct 2005 01:41 in reply to "RE: just an ad"

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2005-07-06

Getting married to him would be difficult as he is sadly no longer with us.

A great coder, and a great writer. I own a copy of the book and it is definitely worth the cover price.

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RE[2]: just an ad

by on Wed 5th Oct 2005 01:43 in reply to "RE: just an ad"

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Well, Mr. Stevens is dead. His coauthor took over duties for this revision, from what I've heard, and did quite a good job. But I have the first edition and Rochkind's revised book and have other uses for $70 at the moment.

Paul G

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