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As an O'Reilly parody I would expect something like "Official paper version of an OSS manual you can download on the project page". The Stack Overflow cover is kind of like that.
Needs "Essential Debugging with print statements"
There's nothing wrong about "debugging with print statements". If anything, if you're any good at it, it shows better knowledge of your program's behavior than blindly looking around in the stack on a debugger. In fact some of the biggest name programmers use just that -- including the very people who created . At best it's "hardcore" -- but not "bad" or anything like what's in the list. Here's some appeal to coding…
The amount of questions I find on StackOverflow that could have been found with a simple Google search makes me think there really is a need to read effective Googling of error messages.
While most of them are well done and funny in their way, they are not actually parodies of O'Reilly, they are parodies of developer attitudes using O'Reilly cover style (similar to meme generator images). As an O'Reilly parody I would expect something like "Official paper version of an OSS manual you can download on the project page". The Stack Overflow cover is kind of like that.
noun: parody; plural noun: parodies
1. an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
While splitting hairs can be fun, for all intents and purposes, I'd say this is a parody.
Missing the best one: http://imgur.com/m11eiu4
I can top that: https://i.imgur.com/8A4lF4p.png
While most of them are well done and funny in their way, they are not actually parodies of O'Reilly, they are parodies of developer attitudes using O'Reilly cover style (similar to meme generator images). As an O'Reilly parody I would expect something like "Official paper version of an OSS manual you can download on the project page". The Stack Overflow cover is kind of like that.
par·o·dy ˈperədē/ noun noun: parody; plural noun: parodies 1. an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. While splitting hairs can be fun, for all intents and purposes, I'd say this is a parody.
But yeah, I know that it is hair splitting. ;)
Needs "Essential Debugging with print statements"
Needs "Essential Debugging with print statements"
One of the best things of the interview book "Programmers at Work", was that all the greatest programmers used printf to debug.
My favorite is the refrigerator magnet we have on our refrigerator. The refrigerator is where you put the refrigerator magnets, right? At least until the acid kicks in. http://i.imgur.com/dy0ii.png
