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Comment by tugberkk | Hacker News Reader

I would be glad if there was a little information about the author of the blog. I do not know who jess fraz is, why would I bother to see his/her recommendations?

It would be pretty nice for posters to put some additional information about the topic rather than just posting a link.

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My logic is in reverse - I look at the list of books to judge whether the person is someone I want to know more about (also irl).

So, the short explanations of why the books are interesting is your introduction to yourself, your overlap (books I already read) is the evaluation material, and the rest of the blog/notes is the thing that it's really being discussed.

What I know about her is that she was a member of the Docker team and now works for Microsoft. She seems like a good professional and is popular among those who are into twitter, blogging and events, but I don't know if there's anything particular remarkable about her (if you are thinking about celebrities such as Ritchie, Linus, Stallman and others).

According to her Twitter that gig at Microsoft already ended.

She also joined GitHub recently and left in couple of weeks.

For the same reason that you read hacker news I guess? You don't know who submitted the links and you still read them. So your point is moo (yes moo, not moot, like a cow's opinion). (It seems people really can be offended by anything these days, even by a book recommendation)

Yes, because I believe in the community. I was not stating the blog poster was not worthy, I was simply saying that even a single line of information by the OP would help to everyone. No hard feelings.

Because she is famous (over 100K followers on twitter) ;)

On a more serious note: Because there are some books in this list that at least I've never heard about but sound interesting.

Twitter may be open to all, but it is not representative of the general demographic, even in this industry.

In the grand scheme of things, Twitter fame means little.

I honestly can't even imagine a personality that takes in to account an individuals number of followers when assessing their relevancy. I just can't grok that.

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