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Even if it's done for marketing, I think it's a small price to pay if it can inspire even one visually challenged person to take up programming professionally.

Perhaps someone who loved computers might be wondering around the world if he/she can ever work as a programmer. He/She might not have explored how to go about it or he/she might not be confident enough to try.

So if this story can change one person's mind, I think it's a sin worth committing.

This reminded me of RubyConf India talk I attended back in 2013 titled “Turning blind eye to rails development by Siddhant Chothe”, that was also quite inspiring.

It made me realize, how rarely we think about accessibility when developing software.

Here is the link to the talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqL89VcYd6g

I am seriously going to miss Dr. Dobb's Jolt awards, it helped me find so many interesting books overtime (Release it!, Specification by example, Taming text, Team geek, Masterminds of Programming etc to name a few, here is the complete list if anyone else is interested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt_Awards)

Can't believe there won't be any jolt awards next year :(

While I agree it's dated in lot of ways but it is still a great read. I am not a game dev but I love to write performant code, it's just a personal satisfaction when I know my code is making the best use of the hardware.

I think you should read the first chapter at least, on how he approaches code optimization, first by design and then by code.

This book teaches you to think like a performance programmer like no other. In the first chapter he challenges assumptions, for example how lib C code is not really optimally written (its written for portability and general purposes) and you can easily write more efficient algorithm to do the same.

The mindset of not being at mercy of the library is a powerful one, it inspires you to dig deeper and find out how things really work. Thus, you make the best choices for the problem in hand.

PDF, HTML(zipped) and the source code http://orangetide.com/graphics_programming_black_book/