Robbery of a dot-com-startup. Set in 2018, in independent Scotland. Alas.
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Halting State
| author: | Charles Stross (2007) |
|---|---|
| series: | Halting State #1 |
| date added: | 2019-07-19 |
| date read: | 2015-08-17 |
| pages: | 351 |
| author: | gender:male, origin:british |
| awards: | hugo-award-nominees |
| genre: | scifi |
| rating: | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ |
Quotes
You’re a grown-up, these days. You don’t wear a kamikaze pilot’s rising sun headband and a tee-shirt that screams DEBUG THIS! and you don’t spend your weekends competing in extreme programming slams at a windy campsite near Frankfurt, but it’s generally difficult for you to use any machine that doesn’t have at least one compiler installed: In fact, you had to stick Python on your phone before you even opened its address book because not being able to brainwash it left you feeling handicapped, like you were a passenger instead of a pilot. In another age you would have been a railway mechanic or a grease monkey crawling over the spark plugs of a DC-3. This is what you are, and the sad fact is, they can put the code monkey in a suit but they can’t take the code out of the monkey.
They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can’t take the code out of the monkey.
But you’re more at home with SQL than socialization: Innuendo wasn’t a language they taught in CS lab.
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