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jmfayard

02/07/2020, 1:38 PM
Hello friends, I have asked some questions to @marcinmoskala How to be more Effective with Kotlin? How to write a book that doesn't get obsolete? Do tech companies under-invest in mentoring and training? https://dev.to/jmfayard/how-to-become-effective-with-kotlin-answers-from-marcin-moskala-22jm
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nfrankel

02/07/2020, 1:53 PM
How to write a book that doesn’t get obsolete?
just answering this question alone could be the subject of a book and it will make the writer a billionaire ;-)
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Czar

02/07/2020, 2:28 PM
I think one option is to write it as an opensource project, put it on github/gitlab and maintain it there 🙂 Where is my first billion?
or it could be closed source but still VCS based and access is sold as a subscription.
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seb

02/07/2020, 3:03 PM
That’s what @Mark Murphy basically does 🙂
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nfrankel

02/07/2020, 3:17 PM
@Czar let’s see if you have got any subscription so far
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Czar

02/07/2020, 3:19 PM
I haven't written any books, just answered the posed question :)
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nfrankel

02/07/2020, 3:19 PM
but you must validate the proposed solution!
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Czar

02/07/2020, 3:22 PM
It is in fact validated, there are books like that, I stole the idea :D
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nfrankel

02/07/2020, 3:23 PM
it’s validated only if they made a billion which i doubt as a book author, i can testify it’s a really hard task to keep the content relevant after a few years or you need to keep it up-to-date that’s akin to documentation
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marcinmoskala

02/07/2020, 3:51 PM
Some books age well. For me “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” is a perfect example, but also “Code Complete” or “Clean Code”
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nfrankel

02/07/2020, 4:23 PM
some do, yes actually, the more abstract and the less technical ones 😉
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jmfayard

02/07/2020, 5:58 PM
I'm glad we were able to help book writers earn billions 😛
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nfrankel

02/07/2020, 6:06 PM
help me, help me! 😛
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codeslubber

02/07/2020, 7:09 PM
@Czar speaking of billions, I think Bill Gates was a trailblazer here, he revised ‘The Road Ahead’ like 20x.. (and it was still wrong and missed most the major stuff of the next 20 years…)
@marcinmoskala I don’t like either Code Complete or Clean Code, the Go4 book takes the crown for aging, Meyer’s book on OOP is a good one, the book Purely Functional Data Structures aged amazingly well… and of course, Mythical Man Month is the most amazing time-wise.. still radiates genius 45 years later…
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Mike

02/07/2020, 9:21 PM
Yes, unfortunately after 45 years, mythical man month is still relevant. I keep hoping that one day it will be seen as 'obvious' knowledge.
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jmfayard

02/08/2020, 5:57 AM
@Mike that's a great point, a book that makes an important so clearly that it becomes common knowledge is a very successful one!
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cedric

02/08/2020, 6:30 AM
Seems like technical books are unavoidably going to be obsolete in a majority of cases and books based on people and interactions between people are more likely to sustain the test of time.
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