Coders
The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson · first published 2019
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"From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers - where they come from, how they think, what makes for greatness in their world, and what should give us pause"--
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on “Ask HN: Material on early computing history and innovation?” ↗Clive Thompson's book "Coders" goes into this demographic shift in considerable depth - currently reading, would highly recommend. At least in those days, if you were reasonably smart and detail oriented, it was possible to find a…
on “The most surprising Unix programs” ↗"Coders: who they are, what they think and how they are changing our world" by Clive Thompson, 2019. I think this is exactly what you are looking for. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44037236-coders
on “Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?” ↗…https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41181600-the-mastermind Technology: - Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Zetter, Kim, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465875-countdown-to-ze... - Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Thompson, Clive, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40406806-coders Fiction: - Vengeful (Villains, #2) by Schwab, V.E., https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26856502-vengeful…
on “Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2019?” ↗…https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41181600-the-mastermind Technology: - Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Zetter, Kim, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465875-countdown-to-ze.... - Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Thompson, Clive, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40406806-coders
on “Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019?” ↗…help clarifying which approaches, technologies, and services should be used to solve a problem in the most efficient way. In 2022 I was brought into a project after the founder read about me in a book ("Coders", by Clive Thompson). Together with this founder's team, the software I designed and led the development of has won many international innovation awards -- so many that she was nominated for Person of…
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2024)” ↗…share of women in tech. This is likely what played out in the united states. Women were displayed into computing due to sexism in other fields. Several of the women interviewed in Clive Thompson's book Coders, explained that they chose to study computer science because law firms told them explicitly that they would not let women be trial lawyers. The reduction in the share of women in computing was due to…
on “The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)” ↗The whole quote makes your clip sound different: Some of the most advanced programming, as Clive Thompson notes in his 2019 book Coders, was pushed forward by long-haired weirdos who hung around university labs after hours, hackers who considered themselves as much artisans as logicians. And it was not said in relation to agile.
on “Agile and the long crisis of software” ↗Your comment resonates with me and a book I recently read - Coders by Clive Thompson. It too points out how the emphasis has been on pure code, pure logic, merit over individuals, code over opinions, and of course the hero developer who doesn't want anyone else to work…
on “How to do a code review” ↗…let women be trial lawyers [1]. This isn't unique to the US, but part of a broader trend of more gender equality being associated with lower rates of women in STEM fields [2]. 1. From Clive Thompson's "Coders" chapter 2. 2. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” ↗…computer science (CS1) at the University of Illinois (https://www.cs124.org/). What book should my students read to help introduce them to the field of technology? In past years I assigned chapters from "Coders" by Clive Thompson for students to read, assessed by a few points of multiple-choice questions on our weekly quizzes. My goal was to complement the technical content and get students thinking about some…
on “Ask HN: What book should my CS1 students read?” ↗Just finished "Coders" (Clive Thompson)
on “Ask HN: What Are You Reading?” ↗