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A truly worthy book of Software Engineer Dark Arts that’s come in handy multiple times. The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Expert'

• NtochkaNzvanova 5y ago
  To each his own, but I found that book to be badly written, outdated, and not applicable to my day-to-day work. Published in 2006, it feels like it was written for a mid-90s world of waterfall process and shrink-wrapped software (6-month death marches to immovable ship dates). No mention of agile methods or the idea that web applications might be developed and deployed differently. It plays upon Dilbert-esque stereotypes of managers and marketing folks, and assumes a 100% adversarial relationship between the brilliant programmers and everyone else. Maybe I've just been lucky, but this isn't at all representative of the world I live in. I guess I'm fortunate not to have to adopt such a cynical worldview as the author. Then again, don't take my word for it, I only read half the book before I put it back into the huge stack of unread books next to my desk.