Learn C The Hard Way

Re:Learn C The Hard Way by speckledjim on Sunday July 03, 2011 @03:40AM (#2723295)

You should stop thinking everyone is attacking you. I think you'd be happier.

Really though, there's no content here. The fact it's been voted to #1 on hackernews shows just how bad things are.

Items should be upvoted on their merit, rather than who did them. Someone writing another book about programming C isn't newsworthy.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by rfrey on Sunday July 03, 2011 @08:03AM (#2723546)

Someone writing another book about programming C isn't newsworthy

However, "someone who wrote a ground-breaking introductory book in xyz modern-popular-hip language is turning his attention to C, of all things" is newsworthy.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by speckledjim on Sunday July 03, 2011 @02:15PM (#2724186)

I had to stop reading at "ground breaking". I'll assume you're being sarcastic and leave it at that :)

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by thebooktocome on Sunday July 03, 2011 @07:07AM (#2723490)

I don't really understand your comment.

1. The post is about Zed's draft; is it really so far of a leap to interpret hp's remarks as a criticism of the book?

2. Is this a fair paraphrase? "Everyone here isn't attacking you, also, your draft sucks and shouldn't have been posted on HN."

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by brown9-2 on Sunday July 03, 2011 @10:00AM (#2723699)

I think hp is making more of a comment about the general state of C books rather than this one.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by baha_man on Sunday July 03, 2011 @09:02AM (#2723613)

' Is this a fair paraphrase? "Everyone here isn't attacking you, also, your draft sucks and shouldn't have been posted on HN."'

No, it's not. speckledjim is complaining that someone writing another book on C is not news, he doesn't say anything about the draft sucking.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by thebooktocome on Sunday July 03, 2011 @09:16AM (#2723635)

Implied by "Really though, there's no content here." Maybe they meant the comments, though.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by TWAndrews on Monday July 04, 2011 @12:30AM (#2725371)

I think he's referring to this topic, rather than the draft.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by speckledjim on Sunday July 03, 2011 @02:22PM (#2724216)

1. I agree 2. He didn't post it someone else did, and no, I don't think it should have been posted.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by Goladus on Sunday July 03, 2011 @09:52AM (#2723687)

If you know a really good beginner-oriented C programming book that is not K&R I would love to see it.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by nonrecursive on Sunday July 03, 2011 @11:27AM (#2723825)

I've really liked http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Modern-Approach-2nd/dp/0...

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by there on Sunday July 03, 2011 @11:18AM (#2723810)

"practical c programming" is not bad: http://amzn.to/m6SOB5

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by hp on Sunday July 03, 2011 @01:24AM (#2723142)

I was just going off on a generic tangent, obviously I don't know what your book will be like. Just talking about C since it's 1am and vaguely on-topic.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by Confusion on Sunday July 03, 2011 @04:13AM (#2723337)

He is not criticising you; he's criticising what others that undertook this kind of project have done.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by brianmatter on Monday July 04, 2011 @05:27AM (#2725963)

hey, you don't know me or shite, but you're a fucking cool guy. probably the most generous dude i've ever not met. cheers!

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by bonch on Sunday July 03, 2011 @02:20PM (#2724208)

Hey, Zed, can you tell us all how much we're losers because we don't get as many blog post hits as you? The irony was a big hit last time.

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Re:Learn C The Hard Way by jnburham on Sunday July 03, 2011 @09:39PM (#2725091)

Reference: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hhef3/in_which_...

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