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It creates enough mystery for someone to open the github page so they can read "intended for everyone"?
So it’s clickbait?
Not everything has to be "clickbait". Let's keep it to those who make money off of news posts, and blatant examples like "You won't believe what Lindsay Lohan did...".
There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering: * quality decline of Google search results * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us) * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)
> What's causing the rise of these curated lists? People with good intentions that want a repo with a high star count. Getting over 500 stars on these readme-only/awesome/"curated" list is very easy. The problem is that curating these lists isn't easy work - people will throw 50+ PRs at you adding their random project. Most maintainers blindly accept them and then the list becomes useless. Sindre (original awesome li…
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> What's causing the rise of these curated lists? People with good intentions that want a repo with a high star count. Getting over 500 stars on these readme-only/awesome/"curated" list is very easy. The problem is that curating these lists isn't easy work - people will throw 50+ PRs at you adding their random project. Most maintainers blindly accept them and then the list becomes useless. Sindre (original awesome li…
What is the value of GitHub stars?
Honestly, I'm disappointed that there isn't any prose / new content involved in this "book". I think it would be nice to have an actual "book", with community-composed chapters. They would follow the same topics listed here, but with actual cohesive explanations and background, rather than just a list of resources. For example, looking at the first section (Shells), it would be nice to have an actual bit of writing w…
Another list similar to this is - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications
There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering: * quality decline of Google search results * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us) * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)
I don't think that's necessarily true, Google is really good at answering questions, it's not so good at "give me a good set of recommended resources on this topic" which requires human input.
Honestly, I'm disappointed that there isn't any prose / new content involved in this "book". I think it would be nice to have an actual "book", with community-composed chapters. They would follow the same topics listed here, but with actual cohesive explanations and background, rather than just a list of resources. For example, looking at the first section (Shells), it would be nice to have an actual bit of writing w…
Without any offense intended, if you need more writing then maybe you need first to read some of the documentation resources before going back to this list?
Also, what I really like is that the author doesn't try to justify why and that's refreshing and lightweight, thanks for that!
But that's like my opinion, man ;-)
Another list similar to this is - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications
Honestly, I'm disappointed that there isn't any prose / new content involved in this "book". I think it would be nice to have an actual "book", with community-composed chapters. They would follow the same topics listed here, but with actual cohesive explanations and background, rather than just a list of resources. For example, looking at the first section (Shells), it would be nice to have an actual bit of writing w…
I really find this list awesome as it is. And the short explanations are really good IMHO. Without any offense intended, if you need more writing then maybe you need first to read some of the documentation resources before going back to this list? Also, what I really like is that the author doesn't try to justify why and that's refreshing and lightweight, thanks for that! But that's like my opinion, man ;-)