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Abstract General Factory
Personal blog · abstractgeneratorfactory.blogspot.comprogrammingcareer
Abstract General Factory is a personal blog at abstractgeneratorfactory.blogspot.com about programming and career. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Why Java Isn't Shit, Part 2 - Conservatism”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2008 post on splitting work time into 3-hour blocks, with creative hacking time kept separate from admin tasks like repo cleanup and client accounting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Java Isn't Shit, Part 2 - Conservatism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-28
What Hacker News says?
I found myself reading faster without this. It doesn't account for variations in how quickly I can recognize a word, or whether I had to think about what was just said. It just blats out the words in a monotone emphasis, demands complete attention (someone calls your name, and you turn around? gotta start over, or at least spend plenty of time seeking) and fails with images. I just tested my reading with both this a…
Comment linking /2008/07/why-java-isnt-shit-part-2-conservatism.html
on “Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly”Submitted Screw it, I quit as a story · 28 points
HN discussionthis was good: creative/hacking/new territory time in blocks of 3 hours. Other blocks of time to clean up your SVn repos, hard drive, client accounting, whatever. http://abstractgeneratorfactory.blogspot.com/2008/06/working...
Comment linking /2008/06/working-from-home-woe.html
on “Ask YC: What kind of hours do all of you hackers work?”Submitted Developer Incompetence, an analysis as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Java Isn't Shit, Part 2 - Conservatism as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Software Development can learn from Formula One as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Java Isn't Shit, Part 3 - Higher Order Programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Triumph of the Idiots as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Got Here, The Full Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to do? as a story · 1 points
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