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I think its most easily described with the following platitude the whole is greater than sum of its parts
My familiarity with the folks being interviewed varied some i knew well some in passing and some i had never heard of like ber... Read More
Now interviews of great practitioners generally dont come off wellthe quality of the interview is limited by the knowledge of t... Read More
To me thats an indication of the quality of the interviews and of the value i got out of the book
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Also the price is affordable even for students
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- This product had a total of 129 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 19 2020.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Although the idea of an interview book is so simple go talk to abunch of people good at what they do and write down the interestingstuff they tell you they somehow differ wildly in quality the goodones being rather rare and the bad ones being many and really bad
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There are a number of topics seibel questions everyone about
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The agreement here is unanimous on the academy beingpreoccupied mostly with the wrong topics such as formal proofs whichall see as irrelevant to application development and missing thereally difficult topics which occupy programmers such asconcurrency
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One of these concernstesting zawinski provides the perspective of someone who had to shipa piece of software or otherwise see the company go to ruin whereassteele talks about how he had to start writing tests for hisfunctional programming excursion because there was no way to insertprint statements
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While some of thedevelopers could understand everything going on in the computers theyprogrammed for ken thompson guy steele others wrote software thatran on complicated platforms and had to deal with all kinds of otherproblems which steele admits is more difficult than what hisgeneration faced
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Thissense of community was lost with the insular pcs and not recovereduntil the advent of the internet
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I think coders at work will be the first interview collection that iwill keep around to have a peek into one of the interviews every nowand then
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This work is a classic which should not be going out of print for the next 5 years
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