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Alexey Komissarouk
Personal blog · alexeymk.com · on HN as AlexeyMKcareerprogramming
Alexey Komissarouk writes Alexey needs a web presence, a personal blog at alexeymk.com about career and programming. Since 2011, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “Dr. Stallman responded to my open letter”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alexey Komissarouk's open letter to Richard Stallman, which one commenter found reasonable, and his guide for interns spending a summer in the Bay Area.
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.
Growth at Anthropic. Previously Growth Engineering leader at MasterClass and Opendoor.
Most-linked posts?
- Dr. Stallman responded to my open letter2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-25
- Lies, damn lies, and front-end tracking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-15
- /dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-25
What Hacker News says?
> But I suggest that the world would be much better if everyone went even 50% RMS. I disagree. Stallman infuriates and disappoints just as much as he inspires. He often comes off as rambling and intransigent. Years ago I found an open letter to him that I found reasonable[1]. Near the end, the writer considers how Stallman’s way of presenting an argument is harmful to his goal: > Dr. Stallman, I have a tremendous am…
Comment linking /dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath/
on “Vim.wasm”Submitted Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter as a story · 493 points
HN discussionI definitely hadn't expected as much feedback and discussion as the post got; thanks, everybody! In case you're curious, I got an email back from RMS: http://alexeymk.com/dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath
Comment linking /dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath
on “Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter”Submitted Lies, damn lies, and front-end tracking as a story · 183 points
HN discussionauthor here > We explicitly only changed the infra which served our landing pages, and kept the content - the HTML/CSS/JS - identical. Once the new infra was shown to work, we would begin to experiment with the website itself. - http://alexeymk.com/2020/07/14/lies-damn-list-and-front-end-...
Comment linking /2020/07/14/lies-damn-list-and-front-end-tracking.html
on “Lies, damn lies, and front-end tracking”Submitted Dr. Stallman responded to my open letter as a story · 143 points
HN discussionThat's actually something we did notice a couple of times! Depending your audience, ad-blockers could be causing your data to be missing a significant amount of your visitors. With Zaraz loading those tools on "Cloud Load", i.e., server-to-server, you might end up seeing those visitors again. Also, because everything gets loaded so fast, you do get information from visits that previously didn't make it before the pa…
Comment linking /2020/07/14/lies-damn-list-and-front-end-tracking.html
on “Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without slowing your website”Submitted An Intern Guide to a Summer in the Bay Area as a story · 132 points
HN discussionMy problem with Stallman is not the the work he's done. He's absolutely a genius and has been right too many times to count. My problem is he's been consistently undermining the FOSS movement by alienating anyone not already in the know. His inability and down right refusal to draw any sort of connection between the average computer user and his point of view makes the idea that he's working towards free software "f…
Comment linking /dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath/
on “Philosophy of the GNU Project (2018)”Submitted Working remotely crossed the chasm today as a story · 122 points
HN discussionWell, you do make a point. My original comment would've been funny to anyone having seen him give a speech in French. But it wasn't really helpful indeed. The open letter from Alexey, though was helpful http://alexeymk.com/dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath - but it's not like Richie is going to listen anyway (his response was a pirouette, and not subtle at that: http://alexeymk.com/dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath ) Oh,…
Comment linking /dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath
on “FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Stallman”Submitted A brief guide to Tech Internships for CS students as a story · 118 points
HN discussionThat is pretty darn helpful. Thanks Greg! You should write it up yourself, though: it's your knowledge, wouldn't be right having me take it. FWIW, my posts on sponsorship: Getting Awesome Sponsors (for college hackathons): http://alexeymk.com/hosting-hackathons/index.html Getting Your Money's Worth as a Sponsor: http://alexeymk.com/61608156/index.html
Comment linking /61608156/index.html
on “Hackathon Hacks for Organizers”Submitted Finding a Technical Cofounder as a story · 71 points
HN discussionhttp://alexeymk.com/an-interns-guide-to-a-summer-in-the-bay-...
Comment linking /an-interns-guide-to-a-summer-in-the-bay-area/
on “Ask HN: internsip in valley - (hidden) added value”Submitted Hackathon Hacks for Organizers as a story · 62 points
HN discussionNo, what you have done is to post on a discussion board a request for a technical co-founder. What you clearly have not done is perform a search on that discussion board for previous cases where people have asked for technical co-founders, or people have posted articles about why it's hard to find technical co-founders, or articles about why asking for a technical co-founder is bound to fail. Here, click this: https…
Comment linking /finding-a-technical-co-founder-slides/
on “Tech Co-founder”Submitted Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted FundersClub: getting Crowdfunding right as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hackathons Organizer's Checklist as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't take your highest-paying internship offer as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Markov Baby Name Generator as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Venmo Review as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best practices for getting sponsors for your hackathon as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted I asked a flight expert to find me cheaper flights and saved over $1000 as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet Another Toolset for Tackling Technical Debt as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrate your Posterous blog to Jekyll, host on GitHub Pages as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hackathon Sponsorship Done Right as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with LinkedIn invite overload as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Test Driven Interviewing as a story · 8 points
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