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Meh, I usually just ignore the stuff about famous people reviews on the book, the formatting and the prerequisites, when I am interested about a topic, I get th
by lnxg33k1 5y ago
Meh, I usually just ignore the stuff about famous people reviews on the book, the formatting and the prerequisites, when I am interested about a topic, I get the book, don't understand something, research about it with the help of other resources, I am more likely to use a book as a starting point to incrementally learn something in order, more than the only source of truth, so I get on internet often while reading
Since we're at it, I hate the fact that books have started being sold like apples by weight and based on the amount of pages, so that it's like I feel during the past few years I've had insanely long books repeating the same shit over and over with authors without any capability to express a concept directly and just walking around a point with low expression skills. I think writing a book right now has become more of a PR exercise for people, rather than something being done by people who have actually learned how to write
Sometimes I just find myself in the middle of a page talking with a book, thinking "Wtf mate you just fcking said that, can you just get to the fcking point already?"
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoI think that's actually because the publishers fired all their editors. People really don't understand the value of a good editor. As far as prerequisites, I'm not sure I'd ascribe a mercenary (thus, malicious) intent. I think that experts have a hard time understanding non-experts. I make that error all the time. In some things (like Swift programming), I'm pretty much an expert. There's definitely aspects of the language and standard library that I still need to learn, but, for the most part, it's something that I eat, sleep, and breathe. I do stuff by habit, without thinking, that would have many people new to the language, scratching their heads.
- lnxg33k1 5y agoOh man, I have no difficulty trusting you, can't express it enough how much I hate this culture of cutting costs and growing revenues at all costs at the price of a good service/product