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Andrew Hickey
Personal blog · andrewhickey.infoculturepoliticsscience
Andrew Hickey writes Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!, a personal blog at andrewhickey.info about culture, politics and science. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on Windows as a desktop OS and on John W. Campbell as a chief architect of science fiction's Golden Age. The comments only link or discuss these posts 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.
Thoughts on music, science, politics and comics. Mostly comics.
What Hacker News says?
Windows : Not Ready For The Desktop https://andrewhickey.info/2012/04/07/windows-not-ready-for-t... Most Windows users never install Windows.
Comment linking /2012/04/07/windows-not-ready-for-the-desktop/
on “Hackers exploited Word flaw for months while Microsoft investigated”Submitted Howto: Strip Adobe DRM in Debian GNU/Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe article barely touches on Campbell's racism, bringing it up only in the context of being an "angry old man" in the 1960s. To give another example, he rejected a story by Samuel R. Delany in 1967 - https://www.nyrsf.com/racism-and-science-fiction-.html : > ... with a note and phone call to my agent explaining that he didn’t feel his readership would be able to relate to a black main character. That was one of my…
Comment linking /2017/08/09/the-prometheans-wheels-within-wheels/
on “John W. Campbell, a chief architect of science fiction's Golden Age”Submitted The difference between liberalism and centrism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Has Audible Quietly Dropped the DRM? as a story · 1 points
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