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Alex Ott

Personal blog · alexott.net/en/writings · on HN as alexottprogramming

Alex Ott's personal blog at alexott.net covers programming. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Video lectures & presentations about Clojure”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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14HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this site mainly for its lists of Clojure videos and functional programming resources, and for an article comparing Git support in Emacs.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

alexott · 950 karma · member since 2009

you can find information about me at http://alexott.net/en/ and at http://alexott.blogspot.com [ my public key: https://keybase.io/alexott; my proof: https://keybase.io/alexott/sigs/YGbMyjTEeMg-ketys_027-WJuGoEn-vKmE1jZ-213tQ ]

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Video lectures & presentations about Clojure
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-04-24
  2. Functional programming books review
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-02
  3. Work with Git from Emacs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-21
  4. A gentle introduction to CEDET (Emacs source code browsing)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. CEDET could be replacement, although sometimes very slow, and requires customization for complex projects. I made it working with Java as well, but for last 2 years, I didn't have a chance to contribute anymore, and my fork with better Java support is outdated... I wrote an article that should be introduction to CEDET: http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html - maybe it will be useful

    Comment linking /en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html

    on “Dumb-jump: an Emacs “jump to definition” package”
  2. Submitted Functional programming books review as a story · 237 points

    HN discussion
  3. There's lots of books, you can find RealWorld and Road to Logic online too (not sure if RtL is legit) http://alexott.net/en/fp/books/#sec7 and tuts http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Learning_Haskell http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category:Tutorials

    Comment linking /en/fp/books/

    on “Why I think Node.JS is a terrible platform”
  4. Submitted Video lectures & presentations about Clojure as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  5. His Clojure analogue Rich Hickey gives great presentations at conferences. If he had the time and/or means to do a course, it'd also be excellent news. Edit: Though I don't think he's affiliated with a university. Oh well, there's still lots of good Clojure-oriented stuff available: http://alexott.net/en/clojure/video.html

    Comment linking /en/clojure/video.html

    on “Online course from the creator of Scala, starting this September”
  6. Submitted Functional programming Books Review/Reading List as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. (not lisp, but clojure:) http://alexott.net/en/clojure/video.html http://vimeo.com/search/videos/search:functional%20programmi... (there's lots for F# and haskell on channel9, and for scala, erlang, scheme elsewhere, and a few for OCaml)

    Comment linking /en/clojure/video.html

    on “Video: Functional Programming for Beginners”
  8. Submitted Work with Git from Emacs as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. Some time ago I wrote an article ( http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsScheme.html ) on working with scheme from emacs - maybe it will useful for somebody. Although it doesn't cover great geiser package yet...

    Comment linking /en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsScheme.html

    on “Learning Scheme in Emacs”
  10. Submitted Functional programming book reviews as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. surki · 2010-10-21Recommends
    I starting using magit recently, but I am still to get used to it. Here is a link discussing about git support in Emacs that I found useful: http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-vcs/EmacsGit.html

    Comment linking /en/writings/emacs-vcs/EmacsGit.html

    on “Ask HN: Best emacs / git integration?”
  12. Submitted Functional programming books overview as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. http://www.4clojure.com/ http://alexott.net/en/clojure/video.html

    Comment linking /en/clojure/video.html

    on “Ask HN: Where can I find Clojure lectures which aren't fluff?”
  14. Submitted Work with Erlang on Emacs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. what you call "fluff" is the stuff you need to understand if you want to understand clojure because they are not just "ideas", it's what clojure implements and how it works... having said that you might find something here: http://alexott.net/en/clojure/video.html

    Comment linking /en/clojure/video.html

    on “Ask HN: Where can I find Clojure lectures which aren't fluff?”
  16. Submitted A gentle introduction to CEDET (Emacs source code browsing) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted How to use Emacs to work with Mercurial as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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