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    <h2>Coders at Work</h2>
    <p><em>Coders at Work</em> by Peter Seibel is a great book which I recommend everyone read.
It relates the experience and learning journey of some of the best programmers of all time, and gives precious insights into their work &ndash; what drove them to become great, what they think is important when programming, and what are their visions for the future.
These 3 subjects together with answers corroborated from all interviewees form guidelines on how one can become a great programmer themself.<br>
Here is what I think about each chapter and person.</p>
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<li><em>Jamie Zawinski</em></li>
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<p>Jamie Zawinski currently owns a nightclub in San Francisco, the <a href="https://www.dnalounge.com/">DNA Lounge</a> (imagine how cool this is) and he does not do much programming nowadays as he used to.
Nevertheless, he began work on Netscape which later evolved into Mozilla Firefox.
Jamie is a person that has a very outspoken political views and opinions about certain things, which you can read about on his great blog <a href="https://jwz.org/">www.jwz.org</a>.
I both agree with him on many current worldwide issues and admire him for his past contributions.</p>
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<p><em>Douglas Crockford</em></p>
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<p><em>Joshua Bloch</em></p>
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<p><em>Joe Armstrong</em></p>
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