[HN Gopher] Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals
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Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals
Author : asicsp
Score : 80 points
Date : 2021-01-26 12:50 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| markus_zhang wrote:
| O'Reilly animals give such touch to the books!
| 1MachineElf wrote:
| O'Reilly books were my first introduction to Perl, so the domain
| name certainly fits here.
| RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
| > Show me a paginated resources and I'll show you the program I
| automated to unpaginate it.
|
| I also hate pagination when browsing the web. Does anybody know
| of a Chrome or Firefox extension to automatically unpaginate and
| show as a single page?
| type0 wrote:
| I almost wish they would publish a book about "Ugly hacks" so
| that there could be an Aye-aye on its' cover.
| YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
| Fascinating animal:
|
| _The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered
| lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with
| rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow[4] and a special thin
| middle finger._
|
| _Among the aye-aye 's signature traits are its fingers.[24]
| The third finger, which is much thinner than the others, is
| used for tapping, while the fourth finger, the longest, is used
| for pulling grubs and insects out of trees, using the hooked
| nail.[15] The skinny middle finger is unique in the animal
| kingdom in that it possesses a ball-and-socket
| metacarpophalangeal joint.[29] The aye-aye has also evolved a
| sixth digit, a pseudothumb, to aid in gripping.[30]_
|
| Unfortunately endangered:
|
| _The aye-aye was thought to be extinct in 1933, but was
| rediscovered in 1957. Nine individuals were transported to Nosy
| Mangabe, an island near Maroantsetra off eastern Madagascar, in
| 1966.[38] Recent research shows the aye-aye is more widespread
| than was previously thought, but its conservation status was
| changed to endangered in 2014.[1][2] This is for three main
| reasons: the aye-aye is considered evil, the forests of
| Madagascar are being destroyed, and the farmers will kill aye-
| ayes to protect their crops and for poaching. However, there is
| no direct evidence to suggest aye-ayes pose any legitimate
| threat to crops and therefore are killed based on
| superstition.[39]_
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye
| eu wrote:
| I wouldn't say aye-ayes are ugly..
| type0 wrote:
| They're kinda cute but their finger is "Natures ugly hack"
| tpkahlon wrote:
| In case someone wants to see oreilly animals: https://oreilly-
| animals.herokuapp.com/
|
| The heroku deploy has limited free dyno capacity each day.
| Zigurd wrote:
| The list is missing the book, and the quoll on the cover of
| _Android Application Development._
| smlckz wrote:
| * ''Women armament workers'' (Linux Cookbook)
|
| * ''Woman Blacksmith'' (Linux Networking Cookbook)
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| * ''Woman on Circus Trapeze'' (Network Security Tools)
|
| huh! not animals!!
| bombcar wrote:
| Technically depending on who you ask, women are a subset of
| human which is a subset of animal.
| slobotron wrote:
| Article comments on this nearly immediately:
|
| > even if "animals" is a bit of a loose term that encompasses
| "Catholic Priests" (Ethics of Big Data) or "Soldiers or
| rangers, with rifles" (SELinux).
| apocalypstyx wrote:
| Humans are animals, too. Read Your Darwin!
| staplung wrote:
| What about the database?
|
| https://wiert.me/2019/04/17/essential-drop-table-animals-now...
| roland35 wrote:
| Here is a link to the full .json file with all the titles and
| animals:
| https://gist.github.com/briandfoy/d68915eb425e1fc4932ceac5cd...
| grahamlee wrote:
| Interestingly the title _Learning Cocoa_ (colophon says the
| animal is an Irish Setter, as is the cover of _Cocoa in a
| Nutshell_) is missing.
| https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-cocoa/059...
| faitswulff wrote:
| Huh, why are the images gifs?
| frakt0x90 wrote:
| gif is lossless for images with < 256 colors and good for
| sharp-edged art according to this.
|
| http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~anderson/images/GIFvsJPEG/compressi.
| ..
|
| That would be my guess.
| faitswulff wrote:
| Thanks!
| jonshariat wrote:
| I don't see my book listed there.
| https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tragic-design/978149192...
|
| Is this specific to programming topics?
| pony_soprano wrote:
| I love O'Reilly's animals. Especially their original tarsier.
| [deleted]
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