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The Pragmatic Programmers (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Strange New World of JavaScript

Even then, when you wrote the book, Google was barely even in the... No, we didn't do it. We were using Alta Vista,. And again, if you go back and read the original, there's almost this sort of idea of breathless excitement about the internet. But on the other hand, trying to keep up is difficult. I think that the actual rate of change, people have become accustomed almost like adrenaline junkies, you know, to the rate of change. You're constantly dealing with stuff that's almost working or that almost integrates into other things. It's kind of a fire hose. Just the amount of ideas and attempts and things people are trying and doing

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