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  • Recommendations for short, dialogue-heavy/description-light audiobooks with lively narrators?

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  • Cradle by Will Wight is a page-turner. 12 book completed series and audio is great based on gushing reviews I've come across.

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  • Programming for kids

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  • Reading the Python Official Documentation is rugged

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  • If you are looking for books, check out:

    Intermediate:

    • Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python — Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques, OOP, Practice Projects
    • Pydon'ts — Write elegant Python code, make the best use of the core Python features
    • Python Distilled — this pragmatic guide provides a concise narrative related to fundamental programming topics such as data abstraction, control flow, program structure, functions, objects, and modules

    Advanced:

    • Fluent Python — takes you through Python’s core language features and libraries, and shows you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable at the same time
    • Serious Python — deployment, scalability, testing, and more
    • Practices of the Python Pro — learn to design professional-level, clean, easily maintainable software at scale, includes examples for software development best practices
    • Intuitive Python — productive development for projects that last

  • Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises

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  • I have a book for Perl One-Liners as well, which I'm currently revising :)

  • Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises

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  • I've written books on regex too, if you are interested in learning ;)

  • Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises

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  • Thanks a lot for the feedback on Coreutils book! It's so nice to hear that it helped in your thesis.

    Regarding the ebook versions, I use pandoc to convert GitHub style Markdown to PDF/EPUB (wrote a blog post about my process here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/). I had to search through stackexchange threads to customize the few things I could. I don't know how to fix the kind of page breaks you mentioned. But, I'll try to find a solution. Thanks again for the feedback :)

  • Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises

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  • Request for Nonfiction must reads

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  • Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

    Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.

  • Bought these from a book fair, thoughts?

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  • "To Kill a Mocking Bird" is great.

  • Just in case anyone is interested, Humble Bundle has a Tad Williams bundle containing 21 ebooks for $18. The offer ends in about 1.5 days.

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  • I've read his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy. Epic dark fantasy, great characters and worldbuilding. The plot is good too, but the pacing goes off rail sometimes.

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  • I read three progression fantasy books in the past three days, so I'm going to take a break and get some of my actual work done :D

    Card Mage: Slumdog Deckbuilder by Benedict Patrick (book 1 of a new series) was well written and a compelling read, but I'd have enjoyed it a lot more if it was lighthearted.

    Overpowered Dungeon Boy by Benjamin Barreth (2 book completed series) was a lighthearted fun read. The OP main character took a while to warm up to, but many of the side characters were easy to root for.

  • Linux Command Cheat Sheet

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  • Looking for comeuppance heavy series

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  • Thanks, that looks interesting, added to my TBR.

    Also, just remembered The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester as another candidate for your request. This is also sci-fi.

  • Looking for comeuppance heavy series

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  • If you don't mind sci-fi: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

    And there's the classic The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

  • What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

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  • You can do it in Bash as well. Put this in .inputrc:

     
        
"\e[A":history-substring-search-backward
"\e[B":history-substring-search-forward

# or, if you want to search only from the start of the command
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

  • Anyone know of a reverse command script or package to parse args for flags, expand them, and condense a man or help page(s) to just the relevant flags?

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  • Inspired by explainshell, I wrote a script (https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help) to be used from the terminal itself. It is a bit buggy, but works well most of the time. For example:

     
        
$ ch grep -Ao
       grep - print lines that match patterns

       -A NUM, --after-context=NUM
              Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines.  Places a
              line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of
              matches.  With the -o or --only-matching option, this has no effect
              and a warning is given.

       -o, --only-matching
              Print  only  the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with
              each such part on a separate output line.

  • Question For Digital Readers

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  • I bought a Kindle but hardly ever use it. I was using the web app on my large desktop monitor and I found that comfortable (especially the solarized-like theme) compared to the Kindle device.