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Re:Acing the technical interview by __debugger__ on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:10PM (#13888716)
I find this style of writing quite playfully elegant. Anyone knows where I can read similar stuff (books, blogs, etc.)?
Re:Acing the technical interview by Nition on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:40PM (#13888970)
Possibly James Mickens' USENIX articles: http://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
Re:Acing the technical interview by vaibhavsagar on Thursday March 16, 2017 @07:28PM (#13890075)
This reminded me of Hao Lian's writing, e.g. http://blog.fogcreek.com/fparsec/. He blogs at http://hao.codes/
Re:Acing the technical interview by krallja on Thursday March 16, 2017 @10:29PM (#13890889)
H.A.P.'s F# code is still parsing Kiln searches to this day.
Re:Acing the technical interview by titanomachy on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:53AM (#13892083)
Charles Stross's Laundry series is great. A talented programmer accidentally rediscovers a CS theorem which allows the summoning of demons and is immediately press-ganged into mandatory employment with Britain's occult secret service.

His wife plays the possessed violin from Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zahn".

Re:Acing the technical interview by devnonymous on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:20PM (#13889717)
When you say 'this style', what do you mean? The subversive intent or the elegant phrasing? If you meant the intent, search and read the BOFH if you haven't already
Re:Acing the technical interview by di4na on Friday March 17, 2017 @08:05AM (#13893303)
Patrick Rothfuss work well too.