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Dreaming in Code -- Chapter 1, Doomed
Scott Rosenberg
02.12.2007
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Dreaming in Code tells the hidden story of the making of software -- specifically Mitch Kapor's Chandler. In "Chapter 1, Doomed," provides a peek into the bug repairs for the Chandler project and how the team handles getting all its work done in the little amount of time left.
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Our civilization runs on software. Far more than most people understand, it has seeped into every cranny of our lives. It is in our kitchen gadgets and cars, toys and buildings. Our national defense, our businesses and banks, our elections and our news media, our movies and our transportation networks--the stuff of our daily existence hangs from fragile threads of computer code.
And we pay for that fragility. The FBI, the FAA, the IRS -- each has crash
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Why can't we build computer programs the way we build bridges? Is this work art or science? Why is the meeting of human mind and machine logic so treacherous? Dreaming in Code seeks to answer those questions. Combining fly-on-the-wall reporting, research, and in-depth explanatory journalism, Dreaming in Code tells the hidden story of the making of software -- specifically Mitch Kapor's Chandler -- its frustrations and intoxications.
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