Werner Vogels

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Werner Vogels is the chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon in charge of driving technology innovation within the company. Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities.

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What If?

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe (Sep 02, 2014)

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4.16 - 119,862 ratings

Categories: NonfictionScienceHumor & ComedyFiction

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were argui...

Werner Vogels

Feb 16, 2019

Thoroughly enjoying Randell Munroe's (of @xkcdComic fame) book "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" - Funny and smartly written, and highly educational. With great illustrations of course. – source

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The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 Bsd Unix Operating System

Answer Book (Addison-Wesley series in computer science)

by Samuel J. Leffler (Mar 01, 1991)

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3.6 - 5 ratings

Categories: ProgrammingTechnology

This answer book provides complete working solutions to the exercises in the definitive Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System. It covers the internal structure of the 4.3BSD system and the concepts, data structures, and algorithms used in implementing the system facilities....

Werner Vogels

Jul 12, 2020

Got my hands on a nice version of the best OS book ever written. It made me become the kernel engineer that I grew up as. It was essential in getting BSD 2.9 to run on the PDP11 that I inherited (Although the Multics papers had their influence as well). – source

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