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I mean no disrespect to the maintainers, but am I the only one who doesn't find lists like this particularly useful? They're the kind of thing I used to bookma
by aynsof 5y ago
I mean no disrespect to the maintainers, but am I the only one who doesn't find lists like this particularly useful?
They're the kind of thing I used to bookmark, thinking that I'd come back to it at some point when I wanted to learn more about X (containers, networking, etc), but I'd never return.
I think the problem is that lists like this _feel_ good but aren't useful. They feel good to write and good to read, because you feel productive. But they don't actually fit into any flow - a learning flow, a problem-solving flow. They're just productivity porn.
- andrey_utkin 5y agoIt feels like it's meant to follow the mission of the Whole Earth Catalog. But I agree that it's hard to imagine the real life context in which this collection of knowledge is of high value comparing to either other books or the rest of the Internet.
- ryukafalz 5y agoAs a counterpoint, I sometimes find these lists very useful when I'm trying to broaden my knowledge of something and need pointers to where to start looking. For example, when I was learning about object capabilities recently, it was very helpful to have awesome-ocap to refer to: https://github.com/dckc/awesome-ocap https://github.com/dckc/awesome-ocap
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- ineedasername 5y agoIf you stumble upon it randomly like this posting it may never end up being useful and you may never go back to it. But if you're looking particularly to get started on a topic, or get some tips, it's very useful. The O'Reilly "recipe" books have been very useful to me over the years, and they're basically just a more formalized version of this sort of thing.
- dang 5y agoLists tend not to make good HN submissions because the more items there are on a list, the less they have in common, so the less there is to discuss: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=denominator%20list%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...