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The Grid Kindle Edition

by Peter Seibel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Moore's Law has crashed. Peak Oil has hit. Computing is no longer cheap and is controlled by the few. Alan Gregoire spends his days squeezing minute optimizations out of code until an unexpected bug leads him into a world of underground hackers bent on changing the system.
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    June 7, 2017
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B072K1JM33
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 318 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 129 pages
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Peter Seibel

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Peter Seibel is either a writer turned programmer or programmer turned writer. After picking up an undergraduate degree in English and working briefly as a journalist, he was seduced by the web. In the early '90s he hacked Perl for Mother Jones magazine and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic and later taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. Peter is also one of the few second-generation Lisp programmers on the planet and was a childhood shareholder in Symbolics, Inc.

In 2003 he quit his job as the architect of a Java-based transactional messaging system to hack Lisp for a year. Instead he ended up spending two years writing a book, the Jolt Productivity Award winning Practical Common Lisp. His most recent book is Coders at Work, a collection of Q&A interviews with fifteen notable programmers and computer scientists.

When not writing books and programming computers Peter enjoys practicing tai chi. He live in Berkeley, California, with his wife Lily, daughters Amelia and Tabitha, and their dog Mahlanie.

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  • B. Meike
    4.0 out of 5 stars Page turner!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2018
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    "The Grid is a sci-fi thriller sent in a world in which Moore's law no longer solves exponential problems in linear time and in which the cost of energy put the cost of computing out of the reach of most people. A band of elite hackers attempt to re-democratize the Grid and wrest it from the control of corporations and their thugs. Great fun in the first fiction work from an author known for his excellent non-fiction.
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  • Patrick Oscar Boykin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating view of an alternate computing future
    Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2017
    Really enjoyed this book set in a world where computing is not the ubiquitous force it is today limited by very expensive energy.

    In such a world, things we enjoy daily are incredible luxuries and the job of computer programmer is vastly different. Set in this world an exciting heist unfolds.

    Highly recommended.
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