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Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by Feuilles_Mortes »

Love this idea :).

I would suggest making submitting a book easier through an online form, though. The process of forking, editing a raw JSON file, and submitting a pull request seems a little primitive, and has a high cost to those who want to contribute.

Thank you for your time and energy making this resource!

Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by bimmer44 »

This is a useful resource - thanks for compiling it.

I'd suggest allowing users to submit short reviews of each ebook. I'd imagine it would be useful to have some insight as to which book would be most helpful for different circumstances - especially once you start to get some more submissions and there are more books per category.

Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by throwaway1892 »

Feuilles_Mortes wrote: post #2

Love this idea :). I would suggest making submitting a book easier through an online form, though. The process of forking, editing a raw JSON file, and submitting a pull request seems a little primitive, and has a high cost to those who want to contribute. Thank you for your time and energy making this resource!

Perhaps the barrier to contribution aims to act as a filter against poor/troll contributions.

Also the necessary skills to submit a book overlap a lot with the skills of the people who might be interested.

Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by Feuilles_Mortes »

throwaway1892 wrote: post #5
Feuilles_Mortes wrote: post #2

Love this idea :). I would suggest making submitting a book easier through an online form, though. The process of forking, editing a raw JSON file, and submitting a pull request seems a little primitive, and has a high cost to those who want to contribute. Thank you for your time and energy making this resource!

Perhaps the barrier to contribution aims to act as a filter against poor/troll contributions. Also the necessary skills to submit a book overlap a lot with the skills of the people who might be interested.

This is a fair point, and one that I hadn't considered.

Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by bklaasen »

Feuilles_Mortes wrote: post #2

Love this idea :). I would suggest making submitting a book easier through an online form, though. The process of forking, editing a raw JSON file, and submitting a pull request seems a little primitive, and has a high cost to those who want to contribute. Thank you for your time and energy making this resource!

This is how pyvideo[1] accepts submissions[2] too!

[1] http://pyvideo.org/ [2] https://github.com/pyvideo/pyvideo/wiki/How-to-Contribute-Me...

Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by ainiriand »

throwaway1892 wrote: post #5
Feuilles_Mortes wrote: post #2

Love this idea :). I would suggest making submitting a book easier through an online form, though. The process of forking, editing a raw JSON file, and submitting a pull request seems a little primitive, and has a high cost to those who want to contribute. Thank you for your time and energy making this resource!

Perhaps the barrier to contribution aims to act as a filter against poor/troll contributions. Also the necessary skills to submit a book overlap a lot with the skills of the people who might be interested.

Really interesting to reflect on the fact that a lower barrier of entry is not always equal to a better choice. There could be a lot of philosophy around this subject, leading us to: should voting be constrained by technology or knowledge of some sort? Is the action motivated by knowledge better to the uninformed one? Sorry for all this off-topic but it is kinda related. I would really love to hear your opinions on this, thanks.
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