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Re:Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I... by sateesh on Monday June 05, 2017 @12:51PM (#14489096)
The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll. This book taught me how important it is to keep a log of events. These logs come in very handy when the problem one trying to debug spawns multiple complex systems.
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Re:Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I... by hyperdeficit on Monday June 05, 2017 @12:57PM (#14489150)
Seconded. This is also a great read on how to track down a deep problem, going through all of the steps required to figure out where it was coming from. That's on top of it being an entertaining view of early computer networking.
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