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Old 07-02-2011, 03:59 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by newlaza View Post
I'm not worried. He's a techie, writes for Wired and other publications. Anything he does he generally hits the nail on the head, even esoteric stuff a la Cryptonomicon.
I haven't read any of his fiction, but his (book length) essay "In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line" is well written. It gets a lot of the details wrong, but the general thrust is very good.
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