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about.futurelearn.com
Company blog · about.futurelearn.com/blogprogrammingweb
about.futurelearn.com is the company blog at about.futurelearn.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a comparison of the 2009 swine flu pandemic with the 1918 flu and coronavirus, covering infection and death rates. The one comment restates those figures and does not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Coronavirus vs. swine flu (H1N1) – 2009-2010 Swine flu is the same strain of flu that wiped out 1.7% of the global population in 1918. It was declared a pandemic again in June 2009, and an estimated 11-21% of the world population contracted it. Fortunately, the CFR is considerably lower than in the previous pandemic, with 0.1-0.5% of cases resulting in death. 18,500 of these deaths were laboratory-confirmed, but est…
Comment linking /blog/covid-19-how-does-coronavirus-compare-to-other-outbreaks
on “2009 flu pandemic in the United States”Submitted Why and how we ran an internal hackday at FutureLearn as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yours or mine? Making personal pronouns consistent in user interface design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interviewing developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring our Rails app out of single-table inheritance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Telling stories with your Git history as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Telling stories with your Git history as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guerilla user testing at FutureLearn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a Learning Hour as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making sense of atomic design: molecules and organisms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to clean data using approximate string matching as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we write readable feature tests with RSpec as a story · 1 points
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