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This post is by the same author as the Lost Art of Logarithms. https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/ https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/ Discussed about a year
by lioeters 12d ago
This post is by the same author as the Lost Art of Logarithms. https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/ https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/
Discussed about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314 (196 comments)
- adrian_b 12d agoAlso the author of the famous "Programming Windows" books.
- devilbunny 12d agoAnd the marvelous book Code. He explains how a digital computer works. Not sophisticated ones, not how it works on silicon, but how you turn relays into computation.
- lioeters 12d agoTrue, this book is a classic and worth mentioning. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold Some reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code
- mdp2021 12d agoWhen I discovered it, "the Petzold" was called "the Windows bible".