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		irony123 on Oct 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Good riddance to long books 100%. I think the same thing for many technical books.

mkl95 on Oct 7, 2022 [–]

My pet peeve with technical books is unintentional filler - things you can learn within minutes by googling it and easily amount to 50%+ of most books. Show me the obscure API workarounds and tricks that will take me weeks to find out instead.

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