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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment Read through it, worked many of the examples. Had a 20 bump in salary.
by nullserver 6y ago
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
Read through it, worked many of the examples. Had a 20 bump in salary.
- undo123 6y agoIs that $20k or 20x? Could legitimately see either.
- nullserver 6y agoLol. 20k. I was a competent programmer and a Linux user, but system stuff always seemed like black magic. With this book I was able to tackle much harder problems
- giantg2 6y agoI'd be interested in the details of how reading a book and doing examples impacted your salary.
- poletopole 6y agoHoly crap I have that book. Can you elaborate more? I’m learning C right now for a variety of reasons but I didn’t think learning posix c would bump my value as a web dev.
- nullserver 6y agoOne example was being able to write native gems so that I integrate ruby directly with other C based services. Writing ruby code that directly interacts with mail servers, databases in a thread safe manor was quite useful. Like learning assembly, sometimes it’s not directly useful, but it does make you write better code; since you understand more of what’s under the hood.
- besnn00 6y agoIn which chapter was this again? And which edition?