FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION
In every high-tech company I've known, there's a war going on between the geeks and the suits. Before you start reading a book full of propaganda from software marketing wizard and über-suit Rick Chapman, let me take a moment to tell you what the geeks think.
Play along with me for a minute, will you? Please imagine the most stereotypically pale, Jolt-drinking, Chinese-food-eating, video-game-playing, Slashdot-reading, Linux-command-line-dwelling dork. Because this is just a stereotype, you should be free to imagine either a runt or a kind of chubby fellow, but in either case this isn't the kind of person who plays football with his high-school pals when he visits mom for Thanksgiving. Also, because he's a stereotype, ...
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