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I'd recommend The Soul of the New Machine that bugged me to really learn computer engineering.
by markus_zhang 4y ago
I'd recommend The Soul of the New Machine that bugged me to really learn computer engineering.
- fsckboy 4y agoalong with Steven Levy's Hackers
- porknubbins 4y agoI heard about that from On the Metal podcast a few years back. Couldn’t believe I hadn’t come across it sooner. Its really fastinating to read about computers before the internet and big tech era when the job was unglamarous and done for the love of the game. It made me sad I missed it.
- markus_zhang 4y agoMe too. That era is gone. I'm sure the spirit is here but in other fields that I don't have access to. I kinda realized that one has to be exceptional to enjoy that spirit. Exceptional enough to only care about the content of the work, not the other things linked to it.
- jnsaff2 4y agoIt made me suspicious that the original post did not include this book.