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Re:Design Books Every Hacker Should Read by timc3 on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @03:45AM (#5059337)
Exactly like discoverability of APIs, or the documentation of a library.
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Re:Design Books Every Hacker Should Read by riffraff on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @05:05AM (#5059509)
Latin is related to many things, but surely we can agree it's not a "must learn" for someone designing a device driver.

Something as general as "don't make me think" may make sense for API design, but honestly I doubt the applicability of "The Elements of Typographic Style" or "Grid Systems" to library documentation and API discoverability.

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Re:Design Books Every Hacker Should Read by netcan on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @08:16AM (#5059897)
Perhaps you are taking the headline a little to seriously, literally. How about.

"Design Books Every Hacker Who Would Like to Read About Design Should Consider Reading Unless They are Designing an API"

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