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62 up-votes on this link so far, #1 on HN, and it's not even true. A good title goes a long way.
by coderdude 16y ago
62 up-votes on this link so far, #1 on HN, and it's not even true. A good title goes a long way.
- nolok 16y agoOr maybe people upvote it because of the content, not because of who made it ? If it turns out it's one of the publishers (or even a fan) instead of the author, this bug report will still be just as awesome.
- coderdude 16y agoMaybe. But I'm pretty sure it was upvoted because of the sensationalist title.
- sfphotoarts 16y agoIt has Google in the title, instant upvote for any article with Google, Quora or Stackoverflow.
- pero 16y agoWould have been even more popular if it read 'her book.'
- Jd 16y agoAnd included a link to a very colorful but incomprehensible resume.
- petercooper 16y ago.. in only 300 lines.
- Rantenki 16y agoWhy is it not true; the bug reporter never claims to be the author, just notes that the book isn't owned by the repo owner (those names don't match) and that the ebook is most likely pirated. If it is not pirated, and wright.edu has access to the Thomson course technology materials, then distributing/making available publicly is certainly a violation of the epub license agreement.
- sorbus 16y agoThe headline is a pretty clear statement that the author reported the bug; "Author finds pirated version of his book in a Google Code Project, files bug" can't really be read to mean anything else than that the author filed the bug. Coderdude was referring to the headline, not the content of the article.