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presents the latest findings in a topical field and is written by a renowned expert but lacks a bit in style.ħ – Good. A helpful and/or enlightening book that has a substantial number of outstanding qualities without excelling across the board, e.g. A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning.Ĩ – Very good. Often an instant classic and must-read for everyone.ĩ – Superb. A helpful and/or enlightening book that, in addition to meeting the highest standards in all pertinent aspects, stands out even among the best. Here's what the ratings mean:ġ0 – Brilliant. Books we rate below 5 won’t be summarized. Our rating helps you sort the titles on your reading list from solid (5) to brilliant (10).
We rate each piece of content on a scale of 1–10 with regard to these two core criteria. Helpful – You’ll take-away practical advice that will help you get better at what you do. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria:Įnlightening – You’ll learn things that will inform and improve your decisions. The discussion of Torvalds and David Miller's fight to control the kernel is especially well done.At getAbstract, we summarize books* that help people understand the world and make it better. Moody also supplies some necessary impartial distance. But the book is wonderfully detailed (Moody dug up and reprinted many letters from the developer's mailing-list archive) and almost obsessive in recounting how Torvalds and his compatriots slowly and deliberately added features to the operating system. Glyn Moody's Rebel Code also zooms in on Torvalds' background and the evolution of the Linux kernel. Luckily, the book is very much a collaboration sections written by Diamond appear intermittently in italic type and often supply important background about Torvalds' parents and their lefty politics. For Torvalds, life progresses from a fight for survival to a struggle to maintain the social order, and, finally, to a quest for entertainment.
Sounds like fame has been good to the man. More recently, he wonders whether a truly livable house in the Bay Area really has to cost $5 million. At the beginning of his life, he has his head buried in code. The front section of the book, a breezy account of Torvalds' youth in Finland, offers terse sentences, cavalier insights, and few juicy details. In Just for Fun, Diamond helps to paint a picture of Torvalds as a cocksure guy who just wants to have fun - which, in his case, translates to building software.
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