The Autodesk File (2017)

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Post by tambourine_man » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 3:15 AM UTC

The Autodesk File (2017)
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Re: The Autodesk File (2017)

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Post by jsnell » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:51 PM UTC

This isn't really from 2017, it's just a reformatted version of the 1994 version.

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 6:42 PM UTC

lots of files on this website

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Post by eisstrom » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 7:31 PM UTC

Does anyone know similar books? I. e. about the history of a company from an insider's perspective?

Re: The Autodesk File (2017)

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Post by iTokio » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 8:02 PM UTC

eisstrom wrote: post #4

Does anyone know similar books? I. e. about the history of a company from an insider's perspective?

Big Blues, about IBM/Microsoft is an interesting read.

Re: The Autodesk File (2017)

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Post by bluedino » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 8:42 PM UTC

eisstrom wrote: post #4

Does anyone know similar books? I. e. about the history of a company from an insider's perspective?

Almost Perfect, about WordPerfect’s rise and fall.

Re: The Autodesk File (2017)

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Post by wrycoder » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 9:08 PM UTC

Richard Gabriel, "Patterns of Software"

http://dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

Among other things, read the section "Into the Ground", which is the story of Lucid, Inc. in the late '80s.

Re: The Autodesk File (2017)

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Post by Jugurtha » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 9:31 PM UTC

eisstrom wrote: post #4

Does anyone know similar books? I. e. about the history of a company from an insider's perspective?

For memo, I just created a file so the list could be augmented at: https://github.com/jhadjar/Notes/blob/master/creation_proces...

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Not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, but I really liked:

- The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner - Masters of Doom - David Kushner. - Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston (aggregate of stories)

Pretty cool in different ways:

- The first shows how the author documented a good chunk of the process (like solving the problem of the Prince's alter ego).

- The second by the journalistic work the author went through and access he had.

- The third by the context it gives on many things (for example, you get a glimpse on Palantir's current work by looking into Paypal's history and the work Max Levchin, CTO at the time, and his team did on fraud detection, or Hotmail's growth tactics).

Re: The Autodesk File (2017)

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Post by jumelles » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 10:49 PM UTC

I wish this sort of thing were more common. For all the power they have, corporations are remarkably opaque.

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Post by wbl » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 10:53 PM UTC

eisstrom wrote: post #4

Does anyone know similar books? I. e. about the history of a company from an insider's perspective?

Soul of a New Machine.