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Even technical books like Hardcore Java: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hardcore-java/059600568... are god-awful, and even further away from the seminal texts on computer science that came before.
It does feel like authorship was once heralded in higher esteem than it deserves today.
Seems like people agree: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/18cvy9e/rant_bestsel...
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Even technical books like Hardcore Java: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hardcore-java/059600568... are god-awful, and even further away from the seminal texts on computer science that came before.
It does feel like authorship was once heralded in higher esteem than it deserves today.
Seems like people agree: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/18cvy9e/rant_bestsel...