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tptacek on March 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: O’Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul

Look, I don't doubt that an ORA book is a credential. I just doubt that it's a cost-effective credential. A prominent Github project will serve most people just as well as an ORA book.

clinth on March 13, 2013 [–]

Agreed. However, you can grind out a book with more certainty than you can create a prominent open-source repo.

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