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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by pbnjay on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:22PM (#11604710)
I remember actually going to my local library and finding some detailed technical books (in my case DOS Interrupts I think), and reading a lot to find out WTF was going on.
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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by ArkyBeagle on Monday May 02, 2016 @10:21AM (#11611570)
Our team lead bought us all a copy of "Advanced MS DOS" for that. We'd have "Taylor Thursdays" where we'd all eat lunch close to a Taylor's Books and spend an hour or two scouring the shelves.

I did once go to the library for a reference to a 1950s book on relevance trimming of search indexing - probably about 10% of "MapReduce".

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