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Ali Almossawi
Personal blog · almossawi.comprogrammingwriting
Ali Almossawi's personal blog at almossawi.com covers programming and writing. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “How maintainable is the Firefox codebase? (2013)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Ali Almossawi's posts and books include a multi-part series on the scientific method and an illustrated book of bad arguments. The comments only cite them and do not judge the writing.
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.
Ali Almossawi is the author of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, Bad Choices, and The Point of Pointless Work. His books have reached 3.5 million readers, have been translated into 23 languages, and have sold over 400,000 copies in print. He is an alumnus of MIT and Carnegie Mellon. Staff produc
Most-linked posts?
- How maintainable is the Firefox codebase? (2013)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-15
- Silicon Valley Phrases in 100 Playing Cards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-16
What Hacker News says?
I maintain that. Actually I think a modern browser is probably more complex than many small kernels. It's probably not the best metric but my checkout of the Linux kernel (a very advanced OS with support for many architectures and devices) is at about 14 million lines of C code (per sloccount), although if you remove device drivers and only count the "core" of the kernel you end up with about 3M lines. I don't have…
Comment linking /firefox/
on “Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10”Submitted Silicon Valley Phrases in 100 Playing Cards as a story · 8 points
HN discussionYeah, the problem is hard. But it is the hardest problem and cannot be solved quickly. But through constant and deliberate exposure to the right kinds of BS, we can inoculate and strengthen those that might succumb to its effects. Frankfurt, Harry. "On Bullshit" (1986) A Reading by AristotleWalks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH-xzi6xBgs All the books from https://almossawi.com/ An Illustrated Book of Bad Argument…
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on “Truth, Math, and Models (Part 8 in a series on the scientific method)”Submitted How maintainable is the Firefox codebase? (2013) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How maintainable is the Firefox codebase? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How maintainable is the Firefox codebase? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open-Sourcing the Creative Process as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plain English: A Cheat Sheet of Things to Be Wary Of as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolution of the Firefox Codebase as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silicon Valley Language Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical debt in Firefox and Chromium (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolution of the Firefox Codebase metrics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical debt in Firefox and Chromium as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How maintainable is the Firefox codebase? as a story · 1 points
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