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0 pointskqr13d ago0 comments

I'm not sure how you came away with that impression. Three out of three reviewers say they overall enjoyed the book. The complaints fall mostly into four buckets:

- "I wish the book was simpler" (Jesse)

- "I wish the book was more advanced" (Murat)

- "I wish software engineering was more advanced" (Andrew)

- "I didn't understand the arguments the author made for why studying single-server exponential response time systems helps with drawing conclusions for time-sharing, heavy-tailed response time systems" (Jesse)

None of these paint the book in a bad colour, as far as I can tell. They say more about the reader's expectations than the book itself.

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pdhborges13d ago

Sure. But I'm trying to connect what you said:

> you'll come out with superpowers you didn't have before.

with the impressions from the reviewers.

I don't think they got super powers from the book. In fact their outcomes mirrors my own outcomes when going deep into some math topics and then bringing them to work.

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