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Andy Kessler
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Andy Kessler's personal blog at andykessler.com covers economics and business. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andy Kessler's free book excerpt "How We Got Here", which argues computing began before vacuum tubes and traces the engineering and systems that led to modern computing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /andy_kessler/excerpts/How_We_Got_Here_Andy_Kessler.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-07
What Hacker News says?
Start here: https://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/excerpts/How_We_Got... Message me after. I am at wmarchibald@gmail.com EDIT: Oh! Also "Eat People" by same author - Kessler : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0049U4KC6/ Semi-edited: Everybody else will say Zero to whatever, and the Hard things about Hard Things, and Jimmie's book Good to Great and Crossing the Chasm, and you might call me mad (and I may be!), I am the…
Comment linking /andy_kessler/excerpts/How_We_Got_Here_Andy_Kessler.pdf
on “Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think”Submitted The Coming Robot Home Invasion as a story · 29 points
HN discussionHere's Kessler's excellent How We Got Here (pdf): http://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/excerpts/How_We_Got_...
Comment linking /andy_kessler/excerpts/How_We_Got_Here_Andy_Kessler.pdf
on “Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists”Submitted Programming Languages Should Satisfy College Language Requirements as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis might be a bit broader but I enjoyed "How We Got Here" by Andy Kessler, which is available for free (emailed link[1] or direct[2] if you prefer. It's more about how the systems and engineering that predated computing influenced its development to where it is now. Actually it's argument is it's been computing all along since before we had vacuum tubes. Worth a read. [1] http://akessler.blogs.com/andy_kessler/200…
Comment linking /andy_kessler/excerpts/How_We_Got_Here_Andy_Kessler.pdf
on “Ask HN: How to learn about the history of computing?”Submitted WSJ: The Fourth Major Era of Computing Kicks In as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted WSJ interview with Zuckerberg, Newsfeed to be new way to consume information as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weekly Standard: Our 19th Century Curriculum as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted WSJ: The War for the Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Andy Kessler: Running Money - The Missing Chapters: Gold Bites: as a story · 1 points
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