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Personal blog · anomaly.org/wade/blogprogrammingwriting

Anomaly Home Page is a personal blog at anomaly.org about programming and writing. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Personal site hosting project pages, such as an SVG analog clock demo. Comments link it for that example and in a thread on Go generics and what Go is and is not.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Hell, simply the idea of programming is rife with potential for abuse. Exactly. Everything you add has a cost/benefit for a particular context. Evidently you disagree with how the Golang team has calculated cost/benefit with regards to generics. Because from my perspective, being able to define parametric data types and functions is a huge win for safety and terseness of code without a lot of downside. Terseness is…

    Comment linking /wade/blog/2013/07/coding_style_terse_vs_verbose_2.html

    on “What Golang Is and Is Not”
  2. Submitted Which Programming Languages are Write-Only? (2010) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. To provide another example that does work on the iPad, though, SVG files can contain code, such as this analog clock: http://anomaly.org/wade/projects/svgClocks/simple-analog.svg

    Comment linking /wade/projects/svgClocks/simple-analog.svg

    on “Steve Jobs’ Email Debate With Gawker Blogger”

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