Those are amazing! Thank you for sharing.

Not sure if trolling..

I don't think so; he seems bitter about the state of the OCaml community and the ability to build companies with it that has maintainable code.

People may be used to different technologies. Many of us just google or see the doc on the fly for such trouble shooting or configuring settings.

But these types of skills/knowledge is different from understanding a computer scientist would require. I would be more worried if someone who claims to know networking doesn't know popular protocols or algorithms like for example the sliding window protocol.

The issues you face in designing, understanding and analyzing such algorithms will change you more than understanding where windows stores the setting to configure one of their protocol parameters.

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Finally some use of the GRE English exam that I had to take before joining CS program!

This may work with narration but the text in itself ,at least for me, is completely useless.

I think other attempts from "Manga Guide" series and even the "Transnational College of LEX" series are far more effective than this one.

The author seems too optimistic in many occasions. Case in point: "You don’t need Quora, if you can ask detailed questions in G+ and share them with specific Circles, etc." doesn't really resonate with me. Many of these platforms(stackoverflow, metaoptimize, quora) rely on the expertise of strangers.

What is CS69A? My google search didnt return anything relevant other than this page itself.

That must have been a typo; the course is CS61A.

Any reviews if you have bought it

Can you guys recommend other books on CS that touch on the topics mentioned in the review?

I assume you've read GEB. That wanders all over the map, and is fascinating for it.

"Complexity" by Roger Lewin is a sort of journalistic take on the early history of the slightly vague field of complexity science. But its fairly interesting.

"The Computational Beauty of Nature" by Microsoft R&D dude Rob Flake might also be a good candidate.

"The Jaguar and the Quark" by Gell-Mann, complexity theorist and Feynman nemesis, is enjoyable too.

A complexity theorist friend of mine also recommended Rudy Rucker's "The Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul" to me, but I haven't read it.

"Darwin Among the Machines" by Freeman Dyson's son (!) is frigging great, but that's now getting off topic.

Great Stuff. Thanks!