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The Pragmatic Programmers (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Importance of Oral History

We have the entire world available to us now, thanks to the uppercase I internet. And that means that we've also got opportunities to play with things that we never used to have. You can start off by cutting and pasting out of, you know, whatever you find online or developing applications that way. But if at some point in your life you want to go back and understand the theory that's been done before, then you've got to go ahead and do it. It doesn't come for free. We had to learn a bit more about Boolean logic and transistors and chips and assembly and gates and all this kind of stuff when we first started our careers. That's

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