Thanks a lot :)
Underscore's Scala books are now open source
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#12I think giving away the books for free is good. However I just had a look and the courses ain't cheap. A good way to generate customers huh? The way I read your post it seemed that you guys were broke and needed a donation.
Hey if I got that wrong sorry in advance.
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#13Are these books also available as single page HTMLs?
yes, they are
cong...... http://www.mrstatus.in/
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#14Scala kotlin war?
Re: Underscore's Scala books are now open source
#15I think giving away the books for free is good. However I just had a look and the courses ain't cheap. A good way to generate customers huh? The way I read your post it seemed that you guys were broke and needed a donation. Hey if I got that wrong sorry in advance.
"broke and needed a donation" --> This is not the case, and we wouldn't open source the books if we wanted to make more money. I could talk more about this, as I think the business angle is interesting and on topic for HN, but I'm at a conference right now.
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#16Is there a direct link to built PDFs somewhere, or do we have to go through the whole process of signing up to Gumroad and having the PDF emailed to us?
Re: Underscore's Scala books are now open source
#17Scala kotlin war?
I think one can live with Kotlin. Scala is too obtuse and Clojure is just bad and pays a heavy performance penalty when interacting with Java due to internal usage of reflection if no type hints are used.
The only thing I'm missing in Kotlin are some metaprogramming facilities.
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#18Is there a direct link to built PDFs somewhere, or do we have to go through the whole process of signing up to Gumroad and having the PDF emailed to us?
Not yet. At some point we'll just host them our website but we haven't had time to do that. You can use a fake email to sign up to Gumroad if you want. Otherwise you can build the books yourself, which just requires Docker and a few hours to download the massive Latex Docker image.
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#19thanks, it is just in time for me, I'm looking for book about slick :)
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#20Is there a direct link to built PDFs somewhere, or do we have to go through the whole process of signing up to Gumroad and having the PDF emailed to us?
I'm happy to report that using junk but plausible email address works. It doesn't ask for anything other than the email once