<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>Let me add a tiny suggestion: sometimes even old, and obsolete has value. There might be an intermediate step in the paradigm or exercise that will suit your mind better. For instance: I failed twice at the calculating change problem in courses (Coursera, SICP). I find a variant in an old Caml problems book, that made me able to revisit the change problem and solve it on my own.&lt;p&gt;Seek for stimulation and keep growing.
Cheers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mithaldu</author><text>Take note that this list seems to include any book, regardless of how old it is and how bad its contents are now, 10+ years later.&lt;p&gt;Before investing time in any of these, do yourself, and the world, a favor and find the community of the language and ask them if the book you found on that list is shit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Freely available programming books</title><url>https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sotojuan</author><text>This is my gripe with laundry list GitHub repos (see most &amp;quot;awesome-X&amp;quot; repos). People just make them for the stars and &amp;quot;fame&amp;quot; and have no intention of curating or reviewing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mithaldu</author><text>Take note that this list seems to include any book, regardless of how old it is and how bad its contents are now, 10+ years later.&lt;p&gt;Before investing time in any of these, do yourself, and the world, a favor and find the community of the language and ask them if the book you found on that list is shit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Freely available programming books</title><url>https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books</url></story>