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Hackers

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syngrog66Aug 8, 2016

Steven Levy's Hackers, to a boy considering a career in computers Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, to a fan of history

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DarrenStuartMar 12, 2008

designing the obvious - a common sense approach to web application design by Robert Hoekman Jr The New New Thing Masters of Doom (story of id software, great story) Smart Start-ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities steven levy's Hackers and crypto also for the history.

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