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Adam McFarland
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Adam McFarland's personal blog at adammcfarland.com covers business, startups and career. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on hamburger menus, which argues the design fails on mobile. One commenter cites it alongside A/B test results. The other comment is a reply on healthcare and freedom from want.
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.
Adam is the co-founder of Pure Adapt, Inc located in Albany, NY
What Hacker News says?
They really don't. Here's a bunch of A/B test results: http://exisweb.net/menu-eats-hamburger and followup http://exisweb.net/mobile-menu-abtest http://conversionxl.com/testing-hamburger-icon-revenue/ http://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/04/08/ux-designers-side-drawer... http://www.adammcfarland.com/2013/10/24/responsive-mobile-ui... Anecdotally, I don't use a ton of mobile social apps, and the first time I encountered thi…
Comment linking /2013/10/24/responsive-mobile-ui-split-test-icons-or-text/
on “The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work”Submitted Why most hiring processes suck (2011) as a story · 42 points
HN discussion> some kind of "freedom from want" ...but only when it comes to want of healthcare Heathcare is a good example, but it's hardly the only want. It's worth raising when comparing countries, because it's a notable difference: different flavours of state run or state mandated healthcare is common in the developed world, USA being notable exception, and universal coverage gives people more ... "independence" if you like…
Comment linking /2017/10/18/would-universal-health-care-encourage-entrepreneurship/
on “Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)”Submitted Maximizing the Impact of Customer Testimonials as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Balancing Out the 24x7x365 Nature of Online Business as a story · 1 points
HN discussion