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Aseem Kishore

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Aseem Kishore's personal blog at aseemk.com covers programming and startups. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for an intro-to-CoffeeScript talk, which one commenter suggests reading to see CoffeeScript as more than pretty JavaScript. Also linked as a projects page, and in a Playboy web app thread.

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.

Engineer, entrepreneur, musician. Please excuse the construction.

What Hacker News says?

  1. The platform is by: http://bondidigital.com/ And the people who built it have done a lot of graphics heavy lifting in javascript in the past. Ian Gilman i.playboy.com: https://twitter.com/iangilman/status/71255767684100097 firefox panorama: https://twitter.com/iangilman/status/60395010868264960 deep-zoom/seadragon: https://twitter.com/iangilman/status/22789135248920576 Ditto Aseem Kishore: http://aseemk.com/projects/

    Comment linking /projects/

    on “Playboy bypasses Apple's App Store, makes a web app instead”
  2. Submitted Intro to CoffeeScript as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  3. standup75 · 2013-09-28Recommends
    I do love CS and I don't think people should answer js questions writing CS code. This is just rude. If you write your blog in CS, it's your choice, it just limits your audience. Seeing such an angry reaction about CS is a good news, it just means that it is popular. And for the ones who think CS is just pretty js, I suggest this reading http://aseemk.com/talks/intro-to-coffeescript

    Comment linking /talks/intro-to-coffeescript

    on “We don't want your coffescript”
  4. Submitted Betting the Company on a Graph Database as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Author here. These are the slides and transcript of a talk I've given detailing my experiences building a startup on Neo4j, a graph database. Hope you guys find it educational. Technical note: the presentation is built with Hakim El Hattab's excellent Reveal.js, but this combo slides+notes viewer is handbuilt, so apologies if it doesn't work perfectly. If you can, view it in Chrome on desktop or laptop. Correspondin…

    Comment linking /blog/neo4j-lessons-learned

    on “Betting the Company on a Graph Database”

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