Ask HN: Physical Magazines About Programming?

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I'm looking for an actual physical magazine (that you can have delivered to your home) on programming and software. Kind of like the pragmatic progammer's magazine. All I can find now are online magazines. Any suggestions?

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If you program in .NET, Visual Studio Magazine http://visualstudiomagazine.com and MSDN Magazine http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx are both available in print. Visual Studio Magazine is a free sub for qualified Devs, MSDN either comes as package or can be subscribed to separately http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee358702.aspx

It's a bit pricey ($99/yr), but ACM membership gets you a print subscription to Communications of the ACM, which is pretty good. It's somewhat on the research side of programming, but since its 2008 relaunch it's a lot more practically focused (no more journal-length articles; new guidelines of 10-page articles with no more than 10 citations, that must cover a topic of general interest with minimal specialist prerequisite knowledge).

https://campus.acm.org/public/qj/brandingqj/cacm.cfm

http://hackermonthly.com/ focuses on all of hacker news, and is a little pricy, but a very nice publication, and will cover programming, but also other topics HN (and possibly you) would be interested in.

XRDS is pretty cool. It's the ACM's "crazy stuff grad students have done lately" magazine.

http://xrds.acm.org/

http://accu.org/index.php/aboutus/aboutjournals

Thanks everyone!

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