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Twenty years?!? My god I feel old. Also, 1999 was an especially good year wasn't it? The Matrix, Fight Club, Eyes Wide Shut, American Beauty, The Iron Giant, B

• drivers99 8y ago
  Cryptonomicon as well. Coming up on its 20 year anniversary (May 1999.) Refactoring (Martin Fowler). Speaking of the Matrix, eXistenZ (very strange), and the Thirteenth Floor (didn't watch it), and probably some others with a similar theme like that also came out that year.
  • nickelcitymario 8y ago
    Cryptonomicon too?! Well I'll be darned. Refactoring... wow. How many programmers have been redefined by works published that year alone? I can't say eXistenZ was a particularly good movie in any objective way, but I enjoyed it and watched it several times. Thirteenth Floor has been on my Netflix queue for a while... I should really get around to it.
  • justbaker 8y ago
    >Refactoring (Martin Fowler) I've heard very good things about this book, is it worth a read for a more seasoned dev?
    • abdulhaq 8y ago
      The first one third is worth a read, the rest is kind of filler
• onemoresoop 8y ago
  And Napster...
• tonyedgecombe 8y ago
  Plus all that work fixing the millennium bug.