Programming sounds like cookery.
On 27 March 2014 19:35, Chris de Morsella <cdemorse...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks Russell, just ordered a copy as well. It will dovetail in nicely > with Max Tegmark's book, about to embark on Chapter 12 into the meat of his > argument; wish I had more time to finish it a single read. Going by your > sig I suspect you will get it... am in the middle of a spot of pretty intense > programming that has been swallowing my time and filling my thoughts. Kind > of walked into inheriting a hot potato that had been promised some time > ago, and never delivered, because the service that had been developed was > this byzantine bowl of spaghetti that nobody wanted to touch with a ten > foot pole. After struggling with this artfully horrible code for a month to > try to understand it well enough to take it on I finally convinced them > that it was a lost cause by showing that it was outputting a lot of bad > values. That was two weeks ago and in two weeks I essentially rebuilt the > entire thing from scratch. > > So Max has to fit within my lunch hour, in fact there are a few smudges on > some of the unlucky pages. Meaning no disrespect, I am afraid, my life > being what it is now that your translation of Bruno's book will also share > that same lunch hour risk... a little inadvertent splash off the plate of > curry perhaps, landing on the page . > > Apologies for the random detour into life... looking forward to reading my > copy when it arrives. > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 26, 2014 1:12 AM > *To:* f...@googlegroups.com; everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [foar] Amoeba's Secret now available in paperback > > > > Thank you Russell, I have ordered my copy. > > > > On 26 March 2014 17:39, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > From your Amazon store near you. > > http://www.amazon.com/Amoebas-Secret-Bruno-Marchal/dp/1495992799/ > > Cheers > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Fabric of Alternate Reality" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foar+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to f...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/foar. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
