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by 0xFF0123 2225 days ago
The book is not presenting to the patient, the book is presenting to another surgeon. If I was a surgeon, I would find value in learning about previous mistakes, and thankfully in programming as a general rule the cost of error is lower (but still a valuable learning).
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"The book is not presenting to the patient, the book is presenting to another surgeon"

I like this analogy and I agree that the previous person saying the publisher was right, completely missed the point.