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If there's a book with a proper title, it's this one. Hacker's Delight is a book made for nerds, by a nerd.
As time goes by, knowledge is consolidated into snippets of great importance, delegating some of the grunt work and backbone tricks and tips to a second plane. This means that the newer generations don't get a lot of exposure to what makes some of the systems we're using tick. This book will show you what it was like to be a programmer eons ago (in a computer science scoped calendar) and there's a chance you will gain a whole new level of respect by our ancestry, where they weren't given everything in a silver plate and their code didn't just work everywhere, disregarding performance, the architecture, and so on...
I loved it, and I still check it out every once in a while when I need to find how to do certain operations faster, you know, those that we take for granted :)
As time goes by, knowledge is consolidated into snippets of great importance, delegating some of the grunt work and backbone tricks and tips to a second plane. This means that the newer generations don't get a lot of exposure to what makes some of the systems we're using tick. This book will show you what it was like to be a programmer eons ago (in a computer science scoped calendar) and there's a chance you will gain a whole new level of respect by our ancestry, where they weren't given everything in a silver plate and their code didn't just work everywhere, disregarding performance, the architecture, and so on...
I loved it, and I still check it out every once in a while when I need to find how to do certain operations faster, you know, those that we take for granted :)
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