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Re:Programming Notes for Professionals books by outsidetheparty on Friday January 19, 2018 @10:21AM (#16186842)
I haven't compared the text to see how much editing was involved here, but based on the credits line in the books this appears to be the abandoned StackOverflow Documentation beta in PDF form?

https://stackoverflow.com/documentation

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Re:Programming Notes for Professionals books by firefruit on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:33AM (#16187486)
Why did StackOverflow shut it down? It was really useful.
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Re:Programming Notes for Professionals books by happy-go-lucky on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:00PM (#16188733)
> Why was this decision made and why now?

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...

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Re:Programming Notes for Professionals books by farresito on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:59AM (#16187704)
It's explained in OP's link. Among other things, because people didn't really use it and stackoverflow is good enough.
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