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by pyre 3647 days ago
> Second... 960 pages. If you really want to advance the craft, if you really want to become a better developer, then you don't measure by the number of pages (<sarcasm>what a sacrifice, I have to read</sarcasm>), you measure by the amount of gold advice on the book. 960 pages is a lot of gold.

I think that comment on the page length was just on the volume of stuff that one would have to memorize if they were to memorize (rather than internalize) the knowledge.