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I'd say go with HN. As a NodeJS developer, I found books to be lacking of the latest JS frameworks and modules. Books have been obsoleted since the internet was created 15 years ago.
Reading the best books on a topic is infinitely better than any time spent on this site. There is nothing to learn here anymore, it's just news. For example you'll never hear the words "Concurrent hashmap" or "denormalization strategy" on this site, but you will in an interview.
On concurrent hash tables alone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22699176 Dashmap: Fast concurrent HashMap for Rust, 4 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425954 Java 8: New features in ConcurrentHashMap, January 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052299 Concurrent Hash Tables: Fast and General? (2019), 84 days ago (a real nice article) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22541925 Show HN:…
I then did the same for "Justin Bieber" and got 94 pages of results, and I also found an Algolia bug that was printing 97 pages as available but the last three were blank.
This isn't very good news for anyone looking for "technology news" here but it is actually quite good for people who are looking for "entrepreneurship news".
Reading the best books on a topic is infinitely better than any time spent on this site. There is nothing to learn here anymore, it's just news. For example you'll never hear the words "Concurrent hashmap" or "denormalization strategy" on this site, but you will in an interview.
Ironically, this HN comment is probably the only place where I'd have heard these terms, or that I need to know them for an interview :)
I'd say go with HN. As a NodeJS developer, I found books to be lacking of the latest JS frameworks and modules. Books have been obsoleted since the internet was created 15 years ago.
As a Rust developer, it's very important for me to be on HN to make sure than everyone knows about Rust, and to introduce Rust into every discussion about other programming languages.
I'd say go with HN. As a NodeJS developer, I found books to be lacking of the latest JS frameworks and modules. Books have been obsoleted since the internet was created 15 years ago.
But you still have to read the book. If you have a book to read, read the book. If not, HN.
I'd say go with HN. As a NodeJS developer, I found books to be lacking of the latest JS frameworks and modules. Books have been obsoleted since the internet was created 15 years ago.
HN is about more than just the latest JS fad: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pick books. signal to noise ratio here has gotten worse; not as worth anymore.