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2ndscale.com is a personal blog at 2ndscale.com about programming and culture. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Thing About Git”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Comments link this personal blog for a post on a Dilbert cartoon about Linux, and reference posts on git rebase and REST. The comments do not judge the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Thing About Git
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. That's what `git rebase --interactive` does (which has been described as being “a bit like git commit --amend hopped up on acid and holding a chainsaw–completely insane and quite dangerous but capable of exposing entirely new states of mind”[0]) The scenario described happens frequently when people `git push -f` a rebased tree, and it certainly does not go unnoticed by other developers on the project — more “havoc”…

    Comment linking /rtomayko/2008/the-thing-about-git

    on “GitHub's 2014 Transparency Report”
  2. Submitted Administrative Debris (2008) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. How I Explained REST to My Wife's original post taken down by the author: "After receiving a number of reasonable complaints about the gender-oriented nature of this article from people I respect very much, I’ve decided to take it down for good. While the dialog was never intended as commentary on the role of gender in technology, I’m convinced that it could too easily be taken that way and am not at all comfortable…

    Comment linking /rtomayko/2004/rest-to-my-wife

    on “50 best HackerNews posts ever (found using math)”
  4. Submitted The Thing About Git as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. It is, via Neil Stephenson's In the Beginning was the Command Line, which was written partly about Linux: http://2ndscale.com/rtomayko/2006/that-dilbert-cartoon

    Comment linking /rtomayko/2006/that-dilbert-cartoon

    on “#error “Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.””

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