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Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
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Re: Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
#2I buy them, but don’t read them.
Re: Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
#3Are you asking because you're planning to write one?
Re: Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
#4Are you asking because you're planning to write one?
Lol, absolutely not
Re: Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
#5I buy them, but don’t read them.
Same here, sadly.
Re: Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
#6I buy them, but don’t read them.
Makes sense. They are very useful as a monitor stand.
Re: Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
#7Yes, I love good technical books. I also prefer reading on paper vs. on screen (which I already stare at the entire day otherwise).
Re: Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
#8Yes, do buy and do read, though maybe pickier than before. Also, often just going with the e-book version of things for practical/portability reasons, but not all the time.
Re: Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
#9I just purchased Jon Gjengset's "Rust for Rustaceans", since most online documentation I've found on Rust assumes you don't understand or just don't care about how computers actually work.
Re: Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?
#10For programming, no. Any programming question I’ve had in the last 15 years has been answered with a Google search, and any new language/technology I’ve picked up has been learned from online articles. Any programming books I still have are language reference manuals, which I keep purely for nostalgia. These too are all online these days.
For math/algorithms, yes. There are still many topics that do not have good online articles but are covered at length in textbooks. These topics are usually covered in journal articles too, but at a much more terse level than a textbook chapter.