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Re:Programmers Don't Read Books – But You Should (2008) by minkles on Thursday August 15, 2024 @03:44PM (#41259636)
The problem is that they're written by developers. And when I say developers I mean developers, not engineers or authors. Everything is about a sausage factory, nothing more. You don't learn stuff other than copying and mimicry. And some of it is absolute monkey excrement. But when you don't know better it feels like you are learning something good.

I am considering writing a bad programming book on purpose. I will call it "how to sling together a badly written Go 'enterprise' app and smear AngularJS over the top"

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Re:Programmers Don't Read Books – But You Should (2008) by Suppafly on Thursday August 15, 2024 @04:50PM (#41260222)
Nah, the worst ones are the ones written by authors, but who aren't developers. Especially the ones that are authors that just write a book for every new trendy language but never get to the point of actually using those languages themselves.
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