[damnruskie]

a typical hn post of esoteric theory that ppl likely upvote due to 'essential coding' buzzwords and stuff they cant understand. While there's some good content in here, posting a pdf of a some teachers lecture notes without additional context is just the HN equivalent of reddit karma whoring. At least provide a sentence saying why this is better than some other resource

[bitdizzy]

I don't think coding theory is that esoteric. I would expect many, but perhaps not a majority, of people with a computer science or mathematics education to have studied its basics. Its prerequisites are not too steep and of course it is absolutely ubiquitous in digital technology.

I read the table of contents because I was curious what they considered "essential" to compare it to my own opinion. I think it's an interesting submission.

[eru]

> I would expect many, but perhaps not a majority, of people with a computer science or mathematics education to have studied its basics.

Or at least have heard about it on a pop-sci or Wikipedia level.

[metiscus]

I feel like you are probably being a little too harsh in your response. If you dislike the content then move along, comment, or downvote. There is no reason to be uncivil and attack the person when attacking the content would do a sufficient job of conveying your point.

[segfaultbuserr]

Just FYI, there is no downvoting for submissions on Hacker News. If you dislike the topic, ignore it and move on. Only for inflaming submissions, there's a "flag" button. Normally it's rarely used, I've only used it a few times before, but effective to kill toxic political flamewars before it's out of control.

[metiscus]

Hey, thanks for that. I know I've seen it said before but as I don't yet have the karma to downvote anything it is easy to forget.

[ralphstodomingo]

I think our part in the community also entails we maintain a high standard of quality in discussions, which means that instead of complaining and making parallels to reddit, maybe we should provide other, maybe better resources and add to the discussion.

[varjag]

Still better than the usual stream of political news, hollow Scientific American write-ups and half-wit medium musings.

[ramchip]

Coding theory was a required class in my computer engineering program, I don't think it's super esoteric. This looks like a pretty nice, thorough document.

[justinmeiners]

Different parts of the community have different background knowledge.