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Can I just second that these are an engrossing read. See the HN discussion here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=952029 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

• wallflower 17y ago
  Thanks!!! Plowing through it, enjoying the read, sad it will soon be done. It's like reading Coders at Work in autobiographical form. One of the best non-book books I've read in months. > We chatted for an hour about peripherally related topics. Broderbund, corporate America, the rat race, capitalism, freedom. I was seducing him. At the critical psychological moment, I remarked: “You know, all my clipping is done on the byte boundaries.” There was a pause April 3, 1989 > The other thing is, I liked them. Lately I’d been starting to feel jaded about this whole enterprise – “Oh well, it’s just a computer game” – but watching Chris and Stu, I realized: These guys love games. They love games the way I loved movies in college. Even more, because they’re not interested in girls yet. Computer games are like the air they breathe. If I can make one that they can get excited about, that’s a real accomplishment. That’s something I can be proud of. So I worked till ten with renewed enthusiasm. May 6, 1989