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		outsidetheparty on Jan 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming Notes for Professionals books I haven't compared the text to see how much editing was involved here, but based on the credits line in the books this appears to be the abandoned StackOverflow Documentation beta in PDF form? https://stackoverflow.com/documentation

firefruit on Jan 19, 2018 [–]

Why did StackOverflow shut it down? It was really useful.

happy-go-lucky on Jan 19, 2018 | | [–]

> Why was this decision made and why now?

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...

farresito on Jan 19, 2018 | | [–]

It's explained in OP's link. Among other things, because people didn't really use it and stackoverflow is good enough.

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