Venkat,
Thanks, responses within.
jrs
On Jan 13, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Tracy Kidder's book "Soul of a New Machine"
Added the book to my reading list. What kind is it?
Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book about a team of hardware
engineers working for Data General Corporation 1978-80 who design a
computer under enormous time pressure in order to save their company
from being put out of business by their main competitor, Digital
Equipment Corporation, which had just come out with much more
powerful and cheaper machines. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in
1982 or so, and has been in print continuously since, having sold
millions of copies. Some people consider it, still, the best
description of who hackers are and how they (we?) think. I myself
think it's an excellent book. Tracy Kidder is a wonderful writter
who has gone on to write a dozen or so non-fiction books, many of
them best-sellers and award-winners.
I want to do both of them sometime. Considering I learnt driving on a
truck while working for Ashok Leyland.
There is a certain romance in driving a truck from Massachusetts to
Key West, Florida, making a few stops along the way to load and
unload cargo. But it's hard work and doesn't pay very well.
Why is it not red in color? :-) Awesome truck though.
Studies have shown that yellowish-green vehicles are more visible
than red ones. However, most fire departments in the US still use
red. For example, there are six towns on the island of Martha's
Vineyard and six fire departments (although some of them are tiny,
with only a handful of firefighters). Tisbury's trucks are green. All
five other departments have red trucks.
Cheers,
Venkat
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