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jwn on Sept 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Free Book: An Introduction to Programming in Go

Please don't password protect PDFs for books. It makes it a huge pain in the ass to actually read. I'd much rather you do what the Pragmatic Bookshelf does and just embed our name into the PDF.

ConstantineXVI on Sept 4, 2012 [–]

As far as I can tell, O'Reilly doesn't even do that. I've even strings(1)'d them and found nothing.

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