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This is the second time someone has recommended this book on HN so for sure it can't be a bad read. I will be starting it tonight
by lovestory 1y ago
This is the second time someone has recommended this book on HN so for sure it can't be a bad read. I will be starting it tonight
- michaelsbradley 1y agoThe book may be a good read or bad one, I am unfamiliar with it. However, terrible recommendations are made on HN all the time, as well good ones, so I’d caution against “recommended a few times on HN” (on its own!) as an indicator of much anything. --- EDIT: changed wording from “multiple times” to “a few times” to be more clear.
- nine_k 1y agoIt may be an indicator of popularity / mindshare of certain ideas. It says little about the ideas' substance, but may still be very important in practice, if you deal with people.
- michaelsbradley 1y agoThe git cli tool is mentioned countless times over many years on HN, surely an indicator that it’s in popular use by the commentatorship here. I’ve seen many (seemingly informed) mentions of the jj cli tool in the last year — not unreasonable to conclude interest in it is growing among folks here, and enough to pique my curiosity. I responded to: This is the second time [I’ve seen that] someone has recommended this book on HN
- gsf_emergency_2 1y agoFrom Ken Stanley's wiki >He left both Uber AI Labs and the University of Central Florida in 2020 to lead the Open-Endedness team at OpenAI as a Research Science Manager.