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Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals

86 points by asicsp 6y ago

roland35 6y ago
Here is a link to the full .json file with all the titles and animals: https://gist.github.com/briandfoy/d68915eb425e1fc4932ceac5cdf2d60d https://gist.github.com/briandfoy/d68915eb425e1fc4932ceac5cd...
- grahamlee 6y ago
  Interestingly the title _Learning Cocoa_ (colophon says the animal is an Irish Setter, as is the cover of _Cocoa in a Nutshell_) is missing. https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-cocoa/0596001606/cover.html https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-cocoa/059...
- faitswulff 6y ago
  Huh, why are the images gifs?
  - frakt0x90 6y ago
    gif is lossless for images with < 256 colors and good for sharp-edged art according to this. http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~anderson/images/GIFvsJPEG/compression_rates.html http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~anderson/images/GIFvsJPEG/compressi... That would be my guess.
    - faitswulff 6y ago
      Thanks!
- pony_soprano 6y ago
  I love O'Reilly's animals. Especially their original tarsier.
- jonshariat 6y ago
  I don't see my book listed there. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tragic-design/9781491923603/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tragic-design/978149192... Is this specific to programming topics?
  - cafard 6y ago
    He does not give an exhaustive list, rather the head of a couple of lists, and a couple of lists matching on one attribute or another. The animal on your cover looks like a Portuguese man of war, which would not match the "ama" search on animal, and of course your title does not include Perl.
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smlckz 6y ago
* ''Women armament workers'' (Linux Cookbook) * ''Woman Blacksmith'' (Linux Networking Cookbook) * ''Woman on Circus Trapeze'' (Network Security Tools) huh! not animals!!
- slobotron 6y ago
  Article comments on this nearly immediately: > even if “animals” is a bit of a loose term that encompasses “Catholic Priests” (Ethics of Big Data) or “Soldiers or rangers, with rifles” (SELinux).
- bombcar 6y ago
  Technically depending on who you ask, women are a subset of human which is a subset of animal.
- apocalypstyx 6y ago
  Humans are animals, too. Read Your Darwin!
staplung 6y ago
What about the database? https://wiert.me/2019/04/17/essential-drop-table-animals-now-with-user-generated-content-thepracticaldev-o-rly/ https://wiert.me/2019/04/17/essential-drop-table-animals-now...
RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
> Show me a paginated resources and I’ll show you the program I automated to unpaginate it. I also hate pagination when browsing the web. Does anybody know of a Chrome or Firefox extension to automatically unpaginate and show as a single page?
markus_zhang 6y ago
O'Reilly animals give such touch to the books!
type0 6y ago
I almost wish they would publish a book about "Ugly hacks" so that there could be an Aye-aye on its' cover.
- eu 6y ago
  I wouldn't say aye-ayes are ugly..
  - type0 6y ago
    They're kinda cute but their finger is "Natures ugly hack"
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago
  Fascinating animal: The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow[4] and a special thin middle finger. Among the aye-aye's signature traits are its fingers.[24] The third finger, which is much thinner than the others, is used for tapping, while the fourth finger, the longest, is used for pulling grubs and insects out of trees, using the hooked nail.[15] The skinny middle finger is unique in the animal kingdom in that it possesses a ball-and-socket metacarpophalangeal joint.[29] The aye-aye has also evolved a sixth digit, a pseudothumb, to aid in gripping.[30] Unfortunately endangered: The aye-aye was thought to be extinct in 1933, but was rediscovered in 1957. Nine individuals were transported to Nosy Mangabe, an island near Maroantsetra off eastern Madagascar, in 1966.[38] Recent research shows the aye-aye is more widespread than was previously thought, but its conservation status was changed to endangered in 2014.[1][2] This is for three main reasons: the aye-aye is considered evil, the forests of Madagascar are being destroyed, and the farmers will kill aye-ayes to protect their crops and for poaching. However, there is no direct evidence to suggest aye-ayes pose any legitimate threat to crops and therefore are killed based on superstition.[39] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye
  - nullsense 6y ago
    I'm now imagining a ship coming ashore as some spots one of these creatures and shouts "aye-aye captain!"
Zigurd 6y ago
The list is missing the book, and the quoll on the cover of Android Application Development.
tpkahlon 6y ago
In case someone wants to see oreilly animals: https://oreilly-animals.herokuapp.com/ https://oreilly-animals.herokuapp.com/ The heroku deploy has limited free dyno capacity each day.
1MachineElf 6y ago
O'Reilly books were my first introduction to Perl, so the domain name certainly fits here.

86 points by asicsp 6y ago

Here is a link to the full .json file with all the titles and animals: https://gist.github.com/briandfoy/d68915eb425e1fc4932ceac5cdf2d60d https://gist.github.com/briandfoy/d68915eb425e1fc4932ceac5cd...

grahamlee 6y ago
Interestingly the title _Learning Cocoa_ (colophon says the animal is an Irish Setter, as is the cover of _Cocoa in a Nutshell_) is missing. https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-cocoa/0596001606/cover.html https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-cocoa/059...
faitswulff 6y ago
Huh, why are the images gifs?
- frakt0x90 6y ago
  gif is lossless for images with < 256 colors and good for sharp-edged art according to this. http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~anderson/images/GIFvsJPEG/compression_rates.html http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~anderson/images/GIFvsJPEG/compressi... That would be my guess.
  - faitswulff 6y ago
    Thanks!
pony_soprano 6y ago
I love O'Reilly's animals. Especially their original tarsier.
jonshariat 6y ago
I don't see my book listed there. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tragic-design/9781491923603/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tragic-design/978149192... Is this specific to programming topics?
- cafard 6y ago
  He does not give an exhaustive list, rather the head of a couple of lists, and a couple of lists matching on one attribute or another. The animal on your cover looks like a Portuguese man of war, which would not match the "ama" search on animal, and of course your title does not include Perl.

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smlckz 6y ago

* ''Women armament workers'' (Linux Cookbook) * ''Woman Blacksmith'' (Linux Networking Cookbook) * ''Woman on Circus Trapeze'' (Network Security Tools) huh! not animals!!

slobotron 6y ago
Article comments on this nearly immediately: > even if “animals” is a bit of a loose term that encompasses “Catholic Priests” (Ethics of Big Data) or “Soldiers or rangers, with rifles” (SELinux).
bombcar 6y ago
Technically depending on who you ask, women are a subset of human which is a subset of animal.
apocalypstyx 6y ago
Humans are animals, too. Read Your Darwin!

staplung 6y ago

What about the database? https://wiert.me/2019/04/17/essential-drop-table-animals-now-with-user-generated-content-thepracticaldev-o-rly/ https://wiert.me/2019/04/17/essential-drop-table-animals-now...

RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago

> Show me a paginated resources and I’ll show you the program I automated to unpaginate it. I also hate pagination when browsing the web. Does anybody know of a Chrome or Firefox extension to automatically unpaginate and show as a single page?

markus_zhang 6y ago

O'Reilly animals give such touch to the books!

type0 6y ago

I almost wish they would publish a book about "Ugly hacks" so that there could be an Aye-aye on its' cover.

eu 6y ago
I wouldn't say aye-ayes are ugly..
- type0 6y ago
  They're kinda cute but their finger is "Natures ugly hack"
YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago
Fascinating animal: The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow[4] and a special thin middle finger. Among the aye-aye's signature traits are its fingers.[24] The third finger, which is much thinner than the others, is used for tapping, while the fourth finger, the longest, is used for pulling grubs and insects out of trees, using the hooked nail.[15] The skinny middle finger is unique in the animal kingdom in that it possesses a ball-and-socket metacarpophalangeal joint.[29] The aye-aye has also evolved a sixth digit, a pseudothumb, to aid in gripping.[30] Unfortunately endangered: The aye-aye was thought to be extinct in 1933, but was rediscovered in 1957. Nine individuals were transported to Nosy Mangabe, an island near Maroantsetra off eastern Madagascar, in 1966.[38] Recent research shows the aye-aye is more widespread than was previously thought, but its conservation status was changed to endangered in 2014.[1][2] This is for three main reasons: the aye-aye is considered evil, the forests of Madagascar are being destroyed, and the farmers will kill aye-ayes to protect their crops and for poaching. However, there is no direct evidence to suggest aye-ayes pose any legitimate threat to crops and therefore are killed based on superstition.[39] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye
- nullsense 6y ago
  I'm now imagining a ship coming ashore as some spots one of these creatures and shouts "aye-aye captain!"

Zigurd 6y ago

The list is missing the book, and the quoll on the cover of Android Application Development.

tpkahlon 6y ago

In case someone wants to see oreilly animals: https://oreilly-animals.herokuapp.com/ https://oreilly-animals.herokuapp.com/ The heroku deploy has limited free dyno capacity each day.

1MachineElf 6y ago

O'Reilly books were my first introduction to Perl, so the domain name certainly fits here.