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By: Jim G.

Jim G. — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:59:15 +0000

Richard,

Thanks for taking a topic that I’ve read, talked and thought about for almost 10 years now and doing a much better (and more entertaining) job covering it than I ever could.

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By: Bill Walsh

Bill Walsh — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:28:11 +0000

Terrific read, Mr. D., although my love of your novels makes me sympathize with your agent’s comment in the acknowledgments. (And it’s semi-pro love, as I’m a writer manque.)

One correction: the totemic icon of the SubGenius is J.R. Bob Dobbs, not R. Bob. (225, note)

Thank you so much for the hours of enjoyment and thought you’ve provided over the years.

And I’ll bid you no “Hail Eris!” but that which we’d say at my Jesuit school, AMDG, MF.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:37:55 +0000

just as a heads up..
it might not actually be a coding error on ur part. might have something to do with the way it has be formatted. idk
but the same thing happened with the emily dickinson poem, ‘=’ was used instead of ‘==’. found in the if statement in the hold() function.
maybe there is some weird auto formatting going or something… but every time there should by ‘==’ there is only ‘=’.. very strange

By: Richard Dooling

Richard Dooling — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:00:53 +0000

Dang! Thanks for catching that, Dylan. Will fix for trade paperback edition.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:37:41 +0000

wow amazing book. read it 3 times.

one problem.

Code Box 5:… if you re print the book. fix the coding error
u used the assignment operator instead of the equality operator :O! broken code

haha still an amazing read though

By: frog

frog — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:14:01 +0000

Entertaining read but FYI your assertion on p. 71 ‘Modern computer science had lots of fathers and no mothers’ is wrong — Admiral Grace Hopper was assuredly a first-class mother. Look her up.

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Au secours, mon livre est sous licence Microsoft ! | Alterdigue — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:24:21 +0000

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