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Also, they're AMAZING And if you like them, you may like https://www.xorpd.net/pages/xchg_rax/snip_00.html , a book of x64 poems (full disclosure: I was a reviewer)
I know some assembly, but I'm having a hard time appreciating the poems. Can you give me some tips on what to notice or consider about them?
They're very much like koans in the sense that there's something to be learned from each one, they encode some deep gem of knowledge that a master low level programmer or reverse engineer will probably recognize.
Some are very self explanatory, like 0x00, which I consider a sort of tutorial on how to read the book. Others require careful thought and a few glances at the instruction set manual to figure out. Some, like 0x04, are so hard to figure out that either you ran into the solution once in your career and you know it, or you didn't. Try asking colleagues if it rings a bell. My personal favorite is 0x13, because how rewarding it was to figure out what's going on.
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I know some assembly, but I'm having a hard time appreciating the poems. Can you give me some tips on what to notice or consider about them?
They're very much like koans in the sense that there's something to be learned from each one, they encode some deep gem of knowledge that a master low level programmer or reverse engineer will probably recognize. Some are very self explanatory, like 0x00, which I consider a sort of tutorial on how to read the book. Others require careful thought and a few glances at the instruction set manual to figure out. Some, lik…
Oh, thanks. Somehow I was imagining "poems" in a very different sense. The way that you've described it makes sense, and I look forward to taking a look at them with this understanding.
Re: Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're very much like koans in the sense that there's something to be learned from each one, they encode some deep gem of knowledge that a master low level programmer or reverse engineer will probably recognize. Some are very self explanatory, like 0x00, which I consider a sort of tutorial on how to read the book. Others require careful thought and a few glances at the instruction set manual to figure out. Some, lik…
Oh, thanks. Somehow I was imagining "poems" in a very different sense. The way that you've described it makes sense, and I look forward to taking a look at them with this understanding.
They are poems in both senses, I think. As in, they are designed as works of exceptional beauty under strict linguistic limitations. They also usually encode a gem of knowledge.