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I finished reading this today, really enjoyable book, very insightful and often thought provoking - it's nice to hear topics from people who have differing pers

I finished reading this today, really enjoyable book, very insightful and often thought provoking - it's nice to hear topics from people who have differing perspectives. Not sure what you mean by hardcore hacker though, unless you mean....most of the programmers in the book come from an era where assembly code and primitive machines were the only tools they had?

silentbicycle 16y ago
As books about programming go, it's pretty accessible to non-programmers. There's plenty of content about motivation, rewards, the relation between technology and culture, etc. It isn't just an avalanche of technical minutiae. I found the part about L. Peter Deutsch (mostly) giving up programming for music particularly interesting.