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Can you expand a bit on both? Why you liked them? What was so special?
by newsoul 4y ago
Can you expand a bit on both? Why you liked them? What was so special?
- coder4life 4y agoI'm going to say Soul of a New Machine made me cry and, especially if you do low level stuff or hardware, is one of the best books which shows overwhelming passion for the art. https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316491977 https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316...
- ggm 4y ago100% agree.
- ggm 4y agoGEB said "strange loops" are part of life and made something out of tiny nothing very real. My dad had a prepress copy for review. Mind officially blown like reading samizdat. He had huge grins reading this fat wadge of paper, my brother and I fought over who got it next. He'd just finished his CS degree, I was starting mine. It felt like the secrets of the Freemasons were being revealed to us. (79) Tracy Kidder captures some of the engineering spirit. You can't bottle it. Making machines is amazing. It's 81, I was a year off graduating, and working on pdp11s and a dec10 so could relate to the birthpangs of a minicomputer with the Vax about to enter my life.