Very good, but, Heisenberg is watching over him.

Very good! This is not only an amazing technical book but it's also a politician book about the truth behind the software industry. All I have to say is that you must read it before you even think about rate yourself as a "good" programmer. But like everything in life it has only one big problem. The author states that by using a debugger you run out of "Heisenberg principle" and it's not true! The effect that a debugger has on timing related problems is not trivial. Even made a debug build will change timing. Anyone who had problems with threads once in life, will know how hard is to debug a thread problem with a debugger (or debug build), just because as your program slowdown your threads may work fine and you will never know what's happening to your concurrency management. Debug without change timing only work for single thread process and only those ones that do not take timing on account to work properly. By the way, I must recommend this book; you will find a lot of useful tips & tricks on it!

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