Fast forward a year, and I felt that I knew more about programming than half the people I worked with
SICP turns you into a misguided elitist. They might as well call it How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
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Anonymous2012-12-28 22:31
The book that has changed my life the most, so far, has been The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman.
In 2010 I started a job that was far, far ahead of my skillset. I'd written fewer than 10,000 lines of code in my life, and I was completely ill-prepared for the work I was supposed to be doing. I picked up SICP about a month or two into that job.
Fast forward a year, and I felt that I knew more about programming than half the people I worked with, and I'd moved to a smaller, more awesome company doing work that I think is much more fun.
A year since then and I've picked up half a dozen new languages, given talks at user groups on some of them. Next year I'm aiming for conferences.
Pick up this book. It gives you superpowers.
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Anonymous2012-12-28 22:37
>>6
Knowledge turns you into a misguided elitist. They might as well call it How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
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Anonymous2012-12-28 22:40
>>7
he turned so smart, he now posts on hackernews.
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Anonymous2012-12-29 0:47
SICP is a good book, it is not the holy grail of computers. it's just a good book, fuck
What happened to you /prog/? We used to love SICP around these parts. Remember Satori? The new generation of /prog/riders are reddit rejects who have never achieved it. Hell, even hackerjews have achieved it. How shameful.
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Anonymous2012-12-29 1:18
sicp is not even a good book. and there is no such thing as satori.
>>17
You seem to be a faulty theorem prover. While >>13,16 are similar, they could be written by two different people who feel the same way about the referred subject. Thus >>13,16 may or may not be written by the same person. However, based upon your language pattern, I can deduce with high probability that you are from g, and I sincerely ask you to fuck off back there.
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Anonymous2012-12-29 10:48
>>18 theorem prover
take your useless pseudoscientific mathematics, break it up and rearrange it to be the size of the sun (as in Banach-Tarski bullshite), then shove it up you ass, ``faggot''.
>>23
If your axiom is that all people associated with prog are idiots, then you are calling yourself an idiot by posting here. You are aware of this, no?
Nevermind, I would rather you not kill yourself. I wouldn't expect one sentence to be a trigger but it might be for some people. I'm sorry. I would appreciate if you took yourself more seriously though.
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Anonymous2012-12-29 18:28
>>29
it's too late, you hurt my feelings :(
goodbye cruel world!
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Anonymous2012-12-29 18:34
Mersenne prime get
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Anonymous2012-12-29 18:41
fuck
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DUBZ2012-12-29 18:41
33 (thirty-three) is the natural number following 32 and preceding 34.