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Re:Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired? by RangerScience on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:30PM (#34729878)
Apparently a lot of us also like really old books?

(mmmm 1910 manual on steel production.)

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Re:Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired? by palmtree3000 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:38PM (#34730024)
Wait, can you link to that?
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Re:Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired? by RangerScience on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:39AM (#34736816)
(this comment to be replaced by a link or other information as soon as I remember to put the book in my hand when I'm next standing near it)
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Re:Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired? by RangerScience on Sunday February 12, 2023 @05:04PM (#34767589)
Finally remembered!

It's a copy of this: https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/CompositionandHeatTr...

Mine is a dark red hardback, printed by McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1911.

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Re:Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired? by mywittyname on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:11PM (#34731522)
Seriously?

I mean, I have a collection of very old engineering books, including one on Petroleum Refinery Engineering and a Reinforced Concrete Design Handbook printed when text books where $2. But I had no idea this was a "thing" among developers.

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Re:Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired? by RangerScience on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:44PM (#34731973)
Apparently. I went into the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles, found that manual, and... had to have it. Didn't understand why. Mentioned that to the clerk, who said: "You're a software developer, aren't you? A lot of you have that reaction."

So, very very anecdotally: yep it's a thing.

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