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From A To RemZi
Personal blog · from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.comsystemswriting
From A To RemZi is a personal blog at from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com about systems and writing. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The Case for Free Online Books”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its case for free online textbooks, written by an author of Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Commenters cite the post as support for their own points rather than judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Case for Free Online Books9 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2014-01-28
- The Case for Free Online Books (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-10
What Hacker News says?
See this, from one of the authors of one of the best undergraduate textbooks on operating systems: • The Case for Free Online Books (FOBs): Experiences with "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" by Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-fre...
Comment linking /2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html
on “Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book”Submitted The Case for Free Online Books as a story · 15 points
HN discussionRelated and similar: See also the blog post (“Why Textbooks Should Be Free”) “The Case for Free Online Books”[1] by Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, professor at Wisconsin and (co-)author of the fantastic Operating Systems book “Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces” ( http://www.ostep.org/ ) [1]: http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-fre...
Comment linking /2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html
on “Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)”Submitted Textbooks Should Be Free as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFantastic! Also "Operating Systems: Three Easy Steps" Authors have written up about Free/Open Source book experience. :-) http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-fre...
Comment linking /2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html
on “The Book “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” is now open source”Submitted The Case for Free Online Books as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHave you looked at http://www.donorschoose.org/ ? From their site: DonorsChoose.org makes it easy to help classrooms in need. Public school teachers post classroom project requests which range from pencils for poetry to microscopes for mitochondria. I bet there's a way you could sneak in support for your Coursera teaching. As for uploading content, that seems like a really tough and time consuming problem. Are you a…
Comment linking /2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html
on “As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In”Submitted Free Online Books: Experiences with "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI can't speak for all categories of books, but here's an actual author's opinion on the matter for text books: http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-fre...
Comment linking /2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html?m=1
on “Z-Library Returns on the Clearnet in Full Hydra-Mode”Submitted The Case for Free Online Books (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for Free Online Books (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for Free Online Books (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Textbooks Should Be Free as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for Free Online Books (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for Free Online Books (2014) as a story · 1 points
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