You bright and risen angels
by William T. Vollman · first published 1988
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If you're not actually going to read anything, you can probably use any book to equal effect. I recommend Vollman's You Bright And Risen Angels.
on “Applied Cryptography Engineering” ↗…details are probably exaggerated, and he particularly tends toward a certain kind of luxuriant self-deprecation, so, pinch of salt and all ... I believe the dueling meta-narrators of his first book, You Bright and Risen Angels, were also programmers, or something like that. It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember Electric Emily's origin story and the parts where the programmer-narrators fucked with the "source…
on “Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent” ↗