Прочитал Код Дурова. Спасибо, [id51825278|Николай]! Все кто мог...

I read the code of Durov. Thank [id51825278 | Nikolay]! Everyone who could have already written a review, so nobody cares. Anyway.

At first it seemed that the book was so-so. But towards the end, it is exciting and inspiring. There was a feeling that the book was in a hurry to release. What for? This is not a VKontakte code, it cannot be fixed a minute after launch. The book is released, the letters are already imprinted in papyrus, as ancient .. [here for the banter it was necessary to suddenly mad literature, but too lazy to invent]. As a result, the book contains many factual errors, and it is with facts that it is most valuable (for me). There are even errors in the biographical information, which is verified through VKontakte in two clicks in the user profile. They mixed up a bunch of opening the wall for everyone and launching a microblog, and much more.

But the book has a lot of sudden literary turns. The author retweetes: "sophisticated phrases are sexy." And although they promised to kill literature, they remained (they simply turned from completely unreadable into tolerable). It’s not bad when it’s a single style. But the journal alternately includes either the journalist or the author of the art book. And it turns out strange, because the organic style of the book is just journalistic, there is the impression that artistic momentum was inserted only in order to turn the article into a book, although most likely the author really loves them. But they are so sudden and overloaded that it would be better if they were not. New stories begin with a literary paragraph, followed by 95% of an interesting investigation. Each time, such revolutions are knocked out of a rut by suddenness and swirling drawn over the ears.

To the good. The book is really addictive as a detective and inspires, motivates to become real (honest, independent, devoted to oneself). Many thanks to Nikolai for investigating the facts. I read with enthusiasm about investors, the experience from this book is very useful in a startup. Many stories are revealed that were desperately curious, but whose reasons I did not know. The story with (finger) Mail.Ru - actions took place when I was inside, but I missed Paul’s story about what happened. The most interesting thing was to find out about the reasons for the ultimatum for games when they were forbidden to post applications on other social networks earlier than on VKontakte, threatening to disconnect payment systems. In the history of VKontakte there are only a couple of solutions that I always considered incorrect and did not understand. This was one of them, and now it’s clear that this is a necessary measure that contradicted the convictions of the social network. About Surkov and riot police - just fine. As Kuzya-atas pushed out (although it’s so exciting to read in a book, such stories in life look unpleasant). It is interesting to read a book about people with whom I am familiar. They write about a fight, and you remember how I saw Dobromyslov in the morning with a fingal. You read about Matsanyuk, and a month ago I googled this name, studying the background of various investors. But some facts are not enough. Who is id2, for example? Durov vegetarian or eat fish? Various little things, which of course are not as important as global stories.

Durov’s code tells the story of how the war was fought beyond VKontakte and it was won. The book teaches you not to betray your values. But the story is not over. On the contrary, it breaks off on acute issues: a conflict at the very heart of the project, the removal of id3 and id4. We will wait for the second part in a few years (just don’t need a movie, please; we don’t know how to shoot it yet, although the level is growing).