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Recommend fun books on tech industry failures

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Post by sqldba » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 6:52 AM UTC

My favorite is “In Search of Stupidity” going over a lot of DOS era company failures.

Do you have others to recommend?

Re: Recommend fun books on tech industry failures

Post by MilnerRoute » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

"Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software."

Post by sqldba » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 11:26 AM UTC

MilnerRoute wrote: post #2

"Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software."

Oh yes thanks love that one too! Also it’s prequel