* [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html GNU Philosophy], hardline but worth reading.
* On that note, the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPLv3] and [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPLv2]. Dense legal style, but also worth reading once, to understand what free software is about
* [http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ The Cathedral and the Bazaar], by Eric Raymond: an overview of closed-source ("cathedral") vs. open-source ("bazaar") design and participation philosophies
- * [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html Making Wrong Code Look Wrong], from Joel On Software (see below)
* [http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html Why Nerds are Unpopular], by Paul Graham
* [http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/info/athena How Athena Works], by Greg Hudson, longtime Athena engineer and SIPB member
+ * [http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html The e-mail threading algorithm], by Jamie Zawinski (jwz), old Netscape hacker. Interesting not only for the algorithm per se, but for his description of the process leading to its development, and his [http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html lost argument with Netscape 4's engineers] against replacing the algorithm with something overengineered
= Books online =
Don't forget about [http://safari.oreilly.com/ Safari] -- O'Reilly books online, free for MIT people.
-= Blogs =
- * [http://www.joelonsoftware.com Joel on Software], a software developer in charge of a small company
- * [http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ The Old New Thing], an engineer for MS who writes about stupid hacks in the name of backwards compatibility
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+= Blogs, etc. =
+ * [http://www.joelonsoftware.com Joel on Software], a software developer in charge of a small company who writes well
+ * [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html Making Wrong Code Look Wrong]
+ * [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html The Law of Leaky Abstractions]
+ * [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Things You Should Never Do], i.e., rewrite software from scratch
+ * [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)]
+ * [http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ The Old New Thing], an engineer for MS who writes about stupid hacks in the name of backwards compatibility
+ * [http://www.jwz.org/doc/ Jamie Zawinski's] writings / rants. jwz developed Netscape 1-3, and played a role in the open sourcing of Netscape as Mozilla.