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by TheDom 807 days ago
One of my favorite genres!

Any book by Steven Levy is great, he is the master! He wrote multiple books about Apple, and also about Google, Facebook,…

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The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph (Netflix Cofounder)

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Does "Console Wars" mostly exam from the business perspective, or does it go through the technical decisions as well? Would love to read why the engineers adopt this or that architecture, and why this many RAM/ROMs, etc.
It only talks about the business perspective, sorry!
Thanks, I wish there is one talking about the technical details, but not as technical as the specification documents.