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>"I'm seeing books in there that are awful choices." At the very least, you could mention which and why. There's a hell of a lot more value in... "The ZINC e

>"I'm seeing books in there that are awful choices." At the very least, you could mention which and why. There's a hell of a lot more value in... "The ZINC experiment: an economical implementation of the ML language is a technical report, written by Xavier Leroy (author of OCaml) in 1990th, and it contains pretty detailed description of ML-like language implementation. This report could be very interesting for all who wants to know about internals of Caml & OCaml languages." ...x 132 from someone who may or may or may not have actually read what's linked than a simple "awful" without any context or qualification. I mean, you could have just dropped a link to your own site and added something of value, instead of creating a nonsense tangent of accusation: https://www.bionicspirit.com/blog/2013/05/13/getting-started-with-scala.html https://www.bionicspirit.com/blog/2013/05/13/getting-started...

bad_user 13y ago
I've stated my opinion, I mentioned that I did it myself, placing affiliate tags on book links (in the comment you're replying to), no I didn't want to draw attention to my own blog because it would have been off-topic and yes, I gave explanations in this same thread. What you're doing is a direct ad-hominem btw. I don't need qualifications to infer that it's impossible for somebody to read 132 books on some of the hardest topics in CS. We also have different definitions for what "value" is.
- incision 13y ago
  You've completely missed the point on multiple counts. Discussion isn't a zero-sum game, you don't have to do battle with every comment.
  - bad_user 13y ago
    Sorry, tough period, I'm very bitchy lately, I hate winter holidays.
    - DannoHung 13y ago
      Can you please call out which books are bad though? That's some very useful information. I know I've read books that were garbage that are very highly recommended. (Code Complete as a "guide to the craft of programming", for example is extremely poor when compared to The Pragmatic Programmer). And even if I disagree with your judgements in some cases, it's good for calibration.

bad_user 13y ago

I've stated my opinion, I mentioned that I did it myself, placing affiliate tags on book links (in the comment you're replying to), no I didn't want to draw attention to my own blog because it would have been off-topic and yes, I gave explanations in this same thread. What you're doing is a direct ad-hominem btw. I don't need qualifications to infer that it's impossible for somebody to read 132 books on some of the hardest topics in CS. We also have different definitions for what "value" is.

incision 13y ago
You've completely missed the point on multiple counts. Discussion isn't a zero-sum game, you don't have to do battle with every comment.
- bad_user 13y ago
  Sorry, tough period, I'm very bitchy lately, I hate winter holidays.
  - DannoHung 13y ago
    Can you please call out which books are bad though? That's some very useful information. I know I've read books that were garbage that are very highly recommended. (Code Complete as a "guide to the craft of programming", for example is extremely poor when compared to The Pragmatic Programmer). And even if I disagree with your judgements in some cases, it's good for calibration.