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2005年 10月 10日

Microserfs

最近読み始めたのが、Microsoftの初期のエンジニアのハードな生活を面白おかしく綴った"microserfs"という本。読みやすいので、手軽な英語の本を読みたい人にお勧めです。Wikipediaの紹介分を載せておきますね。
Microserfs is a novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 1995.
Factually, it provides insight into two tiny, but globally significant subcultures of the 1990s. The first glimpse is into the lives of employees of Microsoft: the people that create the technology that sits on the majority of office desks in the world. We see the role of both technology and the personality of Bill Gates in their lives. The second is a view of the same characters after they have moved to California to work as a tiny start-up company. We get an intimate view of this phenomenon—the struggle for capital, to get to the market first.Thematically, the book explores ideas of identity, man's desire for independence, and above all, the desire to belong.The book involves a fictional simulation program, "Oop!", short for object-oriented programming.
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by tomo_gt | 2005-10-10 08:58


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