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15 points by gt5050 14y ago

shivang 14y ago
This is really nice, would love to have the questions sorted according to the topics
highace 14y ago
Great idea, but make it a website instead of a pdf (or as well as) so sorting and searching and stuff can be done?
- gt5050 14y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion, would try and setup website as well. In the meantime if you can have a look at this http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month
Toshio 14y ago
Nice idea, a separate edition that excludes everything made by microsoft would probably get me to part with money.
- gt5050 14y ago
  Thanks for trying it out. I would be creating separate ebooks on different topics.
ekpyrotic 14y ago
Guys, I want to see a discussion on copyright issues here. At first I thought that gt5050 might be infringing copyright. In particular, if asked, I would have guessed that ownership of the content posted on Stack remained with the askers/answerers. Or, at worse, that the content was released under a non-commercial creative commons license. In fact, it's released under a generic creative commons license (source: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5546/who-is-the-copyright-holder-of-stackoverflow-user-contributed-content http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5546/who-is-the-copy...). How do people feel about an answerer putting x amount of time into writing a free, articulate, well-explained answer, and having that answer repackaged and sold without compensation (or even correspondence)? That kinda' grinds my gears. To be explicit, although I have similar qualms with Hacker Monthly, they're largely settled by the fact that Cheng Soon contacts the authors and gets explicit permission (even if he doesn't pay them). That said, gt5050, I mean to take nothing away from the kudos you deserve for delivering a product.
- gt5050 14y ago
  I absolutely understand your concerns regarding copyright issues. I thought of providing people with an option to read the content on the Kindle as well,and kept only the kindle version at 99 cents. All the content belongs to Stack Exchange users. That said, I am now thinking about making this a donation supported app. Will have to see how that works out.
- beaumartinez 14y ago
  > How do people feel about an answerer putting x amount > of time into writing a free, articulate, well-explained > answer, and having that answer repackaged and sold > without compensation (or even correspondence)? It says at the bottom of every page "user contributions licensed under cc-wiki"; by posting content on the site you agree to those terms. They're not being "cheated"[1]— You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work to make commercial use of the work [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
zdouglas 14y ago
First, thanks for making this! Just a little note, I think there's a bug in your profile picture retrieval: asker & answerer have different usernames but the same pictures; e.g. John Skeet & Remus Rusanu on p. 9.
- gt5050 14y ago
  I am looking into this. EDIT: It is fixed. Will upload the corrected pdf. The problem was only with the pdf version and not with the mobi version
devilankur18 14y ago
good concept buddy ... The links were missing from the pdf. If pdf could have the links to the original content then it would be more easy to get to the original content
- gt5050 14y ago
  I am using Qt to render the content to pdf ,and some how links are not working in the rendered pdf.Will work on this.

15 points by gt5050 14y ago

shivang 14y ago

This is really nice, would love to have the questions sorted according to the topics

highace 14y ago

Great idea, but make it a website instead of a pdf (or as well as) so sorting and searching and stuff can be done?

gt5050 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, would try and setup website as well. In the meantime if you can have a look at this http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month

Toshio 14y ago

Nice idea, a separate edition that excludes everything made by microsoft would probably get me to part with money.

gt5050 14y ago
Thanks for trying it out. I would be creating separate ebooks on different topics.

ekpyrotic 14y ago

Guys, I want to see a discussion on copyright issues here. At first I thought that gt5050 might be infringing copyright. In particular, if asked, I would have guessed that ownership of the content posted on Stack remained with the askers/answerers. Or, at worse, that the content was released under a non-commercial creative commons license. In fact, it's released under a generic creative commons license (source: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5546/who-is-the-copyright-holder-of-stackoverflow-user-contributed-content http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5546/who-is-the-copy...). How do people feel about an answerer putting x amount of time into writing a free, articulate, well-explained answer, and having that answer repackaged and sold without compensation (or even correspondence)? That kinda' grinds my gears. To be explicit, although I have similar qualms with Hacker Monthly, they're largely settled by the fact that Cheng Soon contacts the authors and gets explicit permission (even if he doesn't pay them). That said, gt5050, I mean to take nothing away from the kudos you deserve for delivering a product.

gt5050 14y ago
I absolutely understand your concerns regarding copyright issues. I thought of providing people with an option to read the content on the Kindle as well,and kept only the kindle version at 99 cents. All the content belongs to Stack Exchange users. That said, I am now thinking about making this a donation supported app. Will have to see how that works out.
beaumartinez 14y ago
> How do people feel about an answerer putting x amount > of time into writing a free, articulate, well-explained > answer, and having that answer repackaged and sold > without compensation (or even correspondence)? It says at the bottom of every page "user contributions licensed under cc-wiki"; by posting content on the site you agree to those terms. They're not being "cheated"[1]— You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work to make commercial use of the work [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

zdouglas 14y ago

First, thanks for making this! Just a little note, I think there's a bug in your profile picture retrieval: asker & answerer have different usernames but the same pictures; e.g. John Skeet & Remus Rusanu on p. 9.

gt5050 14y ago
I am looking into this. EDIT: It is fixed. Will upload the corrected pdf. The problem was only with the pdf version and not with the mobi version

devilankur18 14y ago

good concept buddy ... The links were missing from the pdf. If pdf could have the links to the original content then it would be more easy to get to the original content

gt5050 14y ago
I am using Qt to render the content to pdf ,and some how links are not working in the rendered pdf.Will work on this.