<story><title>Principles of Distributed Computing</title><url>http://dcg.ethz.ch/lectures/podc_allstars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javajosh</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m actually rather curious to know how HN people use resources like this. Do you set aside a few hours a week and do a self-course on the content? Do you skim it and smile and node? Do you bookmark it and never get around to reading it? Something else...?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chengiz</author><text>We download the book. If the pdf is in parts, we will use pdftk etc to join it into one document. We will then move it to a relevant spot in a well organized folder hierarchy, renaming it for consistency if necessary. Then we never open it again.</text></comment>
<story><title>Principles of Distributed Computing</title><url>http://dcg.ethz.ch/lectures/podc_allstars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javajosh</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m actually rather curious to know how HN people use resources like this. Do you set aside a few hours a week and do a self-course on the content? Do you skim it and smile and node? Do you bookmark it and never get around to reading it? Something else...?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus</author><text>If it&amp;#x27;s something I can read in a couple days&amp;#x27; worth of free time (~12 hours) and it really interests me, then I&amp;#x27;ll read it and work the exercises. Otherwise I save a copy and never read it.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t recommend my approach.</text></comment>