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Thanks to Alexander and Michiel for pointing me to Knuth's and Keith's recommendations.
I'm signing off for today. I'll reply to new comments (if any) tomorrow.
Have a great day : )
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I like this. Thanks for sharing. I hope you will consider one thing, and please don’t mistake it for political correctness. The phrase “from good people” is distasteful and I think we’re all better off not implying such a thing as “bad people”. If the intent is to define a division, it’s important to be specific lest we undermine our egalitarian goals. I know you don’t mean it to be exclusionary, and probably instead…
I agree. I settled on the word good because I wasn't able to find a good word (no pun intended).
One tiny suggestion (well, medium-sized :) Often, these recommendations come with a reason why this is a good book. You might want to include them, if possible.
It is (but I see it is not obvious). Click on the person's name. I changed the header name from person to source. Does that make it obvious?
Clicking on a name, I'd expect either a bio, or a list of things they recommended. It didn't occur to me it might be the original recommendation. (But then, it might just be lack of coffee :)
Either way, thank you for building this and collecting the data!
A few ideas: - Link the name to a list with all the recommendations by that person, use the date for a link to the place where the recommendation was made (using the date for a permalink is convention). - Link tags. - Show everyone who recommended something and sort by how many people recommended it. (For instance The Pragmatic Programmer is recommended by Joel Spolsky, Steve Yegge and Jeff Atwood.) - Use Amazon Affi…
Thanks for the feedback. I'm building one useful feature a time. No to amazon affiliates.
Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions.
Before reading this, I was not even going to click the link.
I always find that recommendation websites suffer in the long-term because the incentive to just keep adding more stuff (to keep the site not seem stagnant, thus make people come back) is greater than the incentive to strictly filter only super high quality things. How is this site going to tackle that problem?
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm building one useful feature a time. No to amazon affiliates.
> No to amazon affiliates. Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions. Before reading this, I was not even going to click the link.