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wget --random-wait -R ".html,.png" -r goalkicker.com
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Why do you need to kill trees just because the internet is down?
Print on recycled paper. No need to print anything related to programming on high quality paper. It will cost you about double the price per packs of sheets but we print so rarely it's worth filling all of your printers with them.
Why print anything related to programming at all? What's wrong with opening the PDF on your computer and putting it side-by-side to your IDE? Isn't this more practical anyway? (Full text search, being able to copy & paste, and so on)
Of course you can argue that some people prefer reading on paper over reading on a screen. But that argument would be a strawman: The original commenter said they would print this specifically for the case of a broken internet, meaning their normal behaviour is to read that stuff online, on screen.
I haven't compared the text to see how much editing was involved here, but based on the credits line in the books this appears to be the abandoned StackOverflow Documentation beta in PDF form? https://stackoverflow.com/documentation
Why free? It seems like a lot of labor went into making these books.
Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of "Stack Overflow Documentation" (not Stack Overflow Q/A), repackaged in PDF format ? (Also a request for bitcoin donations.) https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d... https://stackoverflow.com/documentation https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z There is no indication that these books are curated or edited.
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Why do you need to kill trees just because the internet is down?
Think about the trees that are used to produce paper in the same way that you think about wheat that is used to make bread. There will always be demand for bread, so it makes sense to manage your natural resources responsibly. No natural resource means no product which means no business. Timber is managed like any other crop. If there were no paper or wood products, those trees would be cut down to be replaced with h…
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Print on recycled paper. No need to print anything related to programming on high quality paper. It will cost you about double the price per packs of sheets but we print so rarely it's worth filling all of your printers with them.
> No need to print anything related to programming on high quality paper Why print anything related to programming at all? What's wrong with opening the PDF on your computer and putting it side-by-side to your IDE? Isn't this more practical anyway? (Full text search, being able to copy & paste, and so on) Of course you can argue that some people prefer reading on paper over reading on a screen. But that argument woul…
I haven't compared the text to see how much editing was involved here, but based on the credits line in the books this appears to be the abandoned StackOverflow Documentation beta in PDF form? https://stackoverflow.com/documentation
Why did StackOverflow shut it down? It was really useful.
The book says that:
d=dict(**otherDict)
>>> dict(**{1:2,3:4})
{1: 2, 3: 4}