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by int_19h 1752 days ago
"Useless" accurately describes the majority of published books in the industry these days. So you can spend a lot of time finding the right book... or you can just dive straight for the spec.
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> or you can just dive straight for the spec.

in practice its not even following the spec, its just copy pasting stack overflow answers.

Reading a book at least gives a more sustainable structure to what you learn.