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Re:A Curated List of Awesome Programming Books by paulliwali on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:12AM (#19634079)
Curated lists are nice but what makes this list "awesome"? Some background or bullet points would be nice to convince a reader to pick any of them up.
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Re:A Curated List of Awesome Programming Books by CharlesColeman on Thursday April 11, 2019 @10:27AM (#19634842)
> Curated lists are nice but what makes this list "awesome"?

I suspect a modern fad of using inappropriately effusive adjectives to hype mundane programming stuff.

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Re:A Curated List of Awesome Programming Books by skaomatic on Thursday April 11, 2019 @10:52AM (#19635055)
This is a rockstar comment.
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Re:A Curated List of Awesome Programming Books by zigzaggy on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:28PM (#19638259)
“Awesome” lists are apparently A Thing on GitHub (1). I’ve been seeing them roll through pretty regularly.

1. https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

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Re:A Curated List of Awesome Programming Books by gmiller123456 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:01PM (#19636664)
Unless the title been has changed since you posted your comment, it is a list of "awesome books", not an "awesome list" of books. But, I agree, to make the list useful, there really needs to be some explanation as to why the book is awesome.
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