Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of reading books?

Re:Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of read... by scott31 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @02:25AM (#23954901)

I'd say go with HN. As a NodeJS developer, I found books to be lacking of the latest JS frameworks and modules. Books have been obsoleted since the internet was created 15 years ago.

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Re:Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of read... by fortran77 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @10:58AM (#23957504)

As a Rust developer, it's very important for me to be on HN to make sure than everyone knows about Rust, and to introduce Rust into every discussion about other programming languages.

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Re:Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of read... by barbarbar on Sunday July 26, 2020 @04:57PM (#23960127)

This comment is great in every way I can think of.

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Re:Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of read... by danfraticiu on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:39AM (#23956976)

Spoken like a true JS developer.

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Re:Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of read... by veddox on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:58PM (#23969301)

Because anything that was created before the Internet spontaneoulsy generated in 2005 is obviously so not worth reading about.

HN is about more than just the latest JS fad: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of read... by gitgud on Sunday July 26, 2020 @06:54PM (#23960795)

Additionally, a book can't even be updated or patched, which makes it inferior to the npm package manager.

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