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It's quite annoying to see entire books submitted. It should be a requirement that you must be able to thoroughly discuss a submission. You can't discuss the en
by tsetse-fly 18y ago
It's quite annoying to see entire books submitted. It should be a requirement that you must be able to thoroughly discuss a submission. You can't discuss the entire contents of a lengthy text in a HN thread. It's like submitting a Google search or an index to pg's essays.[1] The discussion is always superficial.
If you were really interested in SICP, then you probably would have already found this link. It's the 2nd result on Google for "SICP". A blog post on the merits of SICP would be more useful.
1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=410821 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=410821
- gcv 18y agoI totally disagree. I consider links here recommendations for good reading. If the discussion is not as in-depth as you might like, think of it as a set of informal reviews and opinions, probably more reliable than the ones on Amazon.
- tsetse-fly 18y ago"Ask HN" threads are much more appropriate for book recommendations. Imagine if every book in the threads below were submitted- we'd have a bunch of noise and no real discussion. Submissions like this are only useful for people too unmotivated to Google for "SICP". http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=240628 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=240628 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85840 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85840 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=193308 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=193308 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80845 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80845 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=127711 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=127711 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56618 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56618 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156137 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156137 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41532 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41532 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136875 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136875