Ackshually, all matter emits black body radiation and is therefore on the spectrum. /s

Sarcasm that needs to be declared with /s is not sarcasm. /s

Please don't use that as an insult.

>Please don't use that as an insult.

Wasn't intended as an insult. Pretty sure I'm on it myself on the mild side

It can be a quite lengthy introduction and still be intended for begginers.

I don't see the contradiction.

This book is great. I would say that it is for beginners as long as they have some semblance of C understanding and spent a few hours (days?) reading up about assembly and machine code topics. These skills take years to truly master and the book starts from the beginning. I think the difficulty of asm is overrated (its not uncommon for young kids to learn this sort of stuff).

I think one of the greatest initial hurdles of being a good reverser is not being afraid to wade through large amounts of disassembly and being comfortable with not understanding whats going on for long periods of time.

Glancing at the table of contents, it seems like it covers an excellent breadth of useful topic for reverse engineers/hackers/those interested in how their computer works. One part of that will be a working knowledge of assembly, of course, so that’s why the book tries to give a somewhat fast-paced intro to it. But you’ll see that there are other things covered too.

Shouldn't we be kinda proud of it?

Be proud of it! It's an asset. I know I can't get through that stuff.

beginners to reverse engineering, nothing otherwise implied

wouldn't "Introduction to Reverse Engineering" imply you're a beginner at RE if you're reading it?

Found the web developer

Real Men program web sites in assembly, and they like it.

Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12371463

I'm a bit disappointed the frontend uses javascript. I was hoping for handwritten webassembly.

I swear the FreeBSD handbook used to (or still does?) have a section documenting writing a CGI program in x86 assembly

Haha opposite actually. More comfortable with compiled code & struggling to wrap my head around the web side of things with no clear execution path. This RESTful/async/api stuff is killing me