Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore

Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by DANmode on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:03PM (#48273323)

Too early to call, but that is a crazy stat. Wow.

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by Gigachad on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:09PM (#48273375)

Too early to call? It's hit rock bottom. I've never seen a major site die so completely before.

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by Grokify on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:12PM (#48273411)

Digg was a major site that had a surprisingly fast turn of events. There are some good lessons from that.

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by antiframe on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:14PM (#48273419)

MySpace comes to mind. Slashdot maybe.

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by Gigachad on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:18PM (#48273461)

Both before my time. These days it seems like every site is able to withstand pretty much every controversy. Facebook should have died about 5 times by now but the company is as strong as ever.

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by DANmode on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:03PM (#48274504)

LifeLog doesn’t ever die,

it just takes the form it needs to.

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by DANmode on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @01:24AM (#48275348)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by dwd on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:55PM (#48273726)

Groupon? Did an IPO with a 12.7b valuation and was mostly dead within a year.

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by DANmode on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:16PM (#48273867)

Google Search was looking bleak at one point, recently, based on deltas alone.

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