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Re:Books I Recommend by tugberkk on Monday February 25, 2019 @06:49AM (#19244928)
I would be glad if there was a little information about the author of the blog. I do not know who jess fraz is, why would I bother to see his/her recommendations?

It would be pretty nice for posters to put some additional information about the topic rather than just posting a link.

Re:Books I Recommend by code_scrapping on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:02AM (#19245006)
My logic is in reverse - I look at the list of books to judge whether the person is someone I want to know more about (also irl).

So, the short explanations of why the books are interesting is your introduction to yourself, your overlap (books I already read) is the evaluation material, and the rest of the blog/notes is the thing that it's really being discussed.

Re:Books I Recommend by kojackst on Monday February 25, 2019 @08:20AM (#19245379)
What I know about her is that she was a member of the Docker team and now works for Microsoft. She seems like a good professional and is popular among those who are into twitter, blogging and events, but I don't know if there's anything particular remarkable about her (if you are thinking about celebrities such as Ritchie, Linus, Stallman and others).
Re:Books I Recommend by codemusings on Monday February 25, 2019 @08:53AM (#19245591)
According to her Twitter that gig at Microsoft already ended.
Re:Books I Recommend by tejinderss on Monday February 25, 2019 @09:10AM (#19245679)
She also joined GitHub recently and left in couple of weeks.
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Re:Books I Recommend by karim on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:24PM (#19247992)
This is unnecessarily harsh. Sometimes there are circumstances outside of your control. I don't think it's a good idea to judge someone's career when you don't know them.
Re:Books I Recommend by metal13 on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:14PM (#19248994)
That means nothing when it comes to ability. It's also pretty standard these days. You don't move up, you move out.
Re:Books I Recommend by fogetti on Monday February 25, 2019 @09:06AM (#19245660)
For the same reason that you read hacker news I guess? You don't know who submitted the links and you still read them. So your point is moo (yes moo, not moot, like a cow's opinion). (It seems people really can be offended by anything these days, even by a book recommendation)
Re:Books I Recommend by tugberkk on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @01:28AM (#19252380)
Yes, because I believe in the community. I was not stating the blog poster was not worthy, I was simply saying that even a single line of information by the OP would help to everyone. No hard feelings.
Re:Books I Recommend by readittwice on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:10AM (#19245043)
Because she is famous (over 100K followers on twitter) ;)

On a more serious note: Because there are some books in this list that at least I've never heard about but sound interesting.

Re:Books I Recommend by yakshaving_jgt on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:46AM (#19245198)
Twitter may be open to all, but it is not representative of the general demographic, even in this industry.

In the grand scheme of things, Twitter fame means little.

Re:Books I Recommend by quaice on Monday February 25, 2019 @08:29AM (#19245437)
I honestly can't even imagine a personality that takes in to account an individuals number of followers when assessing their relevancy. I just can't grok that.