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Ben Rady

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Ben Rady's personal blog at benrady.com covers programming and career. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages are Overrated”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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16mentions?
11HN people?
2010–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ben Rady's blog for his contrarian post arguing functional languages are overrated, and one commenter cites the author's earlier Haskell plans. Commenters also name him as a programmer they have worked with.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages are Overrated
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Scriptor · 2010-06-29
    Completely agree. The author mentions that he tried to learn Erlang and Haskell (we don't know how much he tried), uses the technical specs of Haskell and O'Caml, and then makes a side swat at Scala. It looks like at the beginning of this year he had decided to learn Haskell as a way to explore functional programming: http://www.benrady.com/2010/01/language-of-the-year-2010.htm... . I simply don't think being unable…

    Comment linking /2010/01/language-of-the-year-2010.html

    on “A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages are Overrated”
  2. pbrowne011 · 2024-12-19

    Submitted There's No Such Thing as Software Productivity (2012) as a story · 130 points

    HN discussion
  3. AmberShah · 2010-09-14
    Actually worked with would be http://benrady.com/ , http://grack.com/blog/ , and a few other people who don't have online presences. Seen in person but not worked with would be http://twitter.com/venkat_s and http://www.nealford.com/ .

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who's the best programmer you ever worked with?”
  4. fogus · 2012-09-10

    Submitted An Apology of Sorts: Functional Languages Are (Still) Overrated as a story · 68 points

    HN discussion
  5. kyleburton · 2010-06-29

    Submitted A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages are Overrated as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  6. bertiewhykovich · 2016-08-03

    Submitted A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages Are Overrated (2010) as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  7. momonga · 2020-05-30

    Submitted Powers of Two (2017) as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  8. galapago · 2016-06-20

    Submitted Stop Calling It Theft: Thoughts on TheDAO as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  9. benrady · 2014-09-19

    Submitted Why the Post Scarcity Society Will Not Be Star Trek as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  10. Sherrilbfx · 2012-11-21

    Submitted There's no such thing as software productivity as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. benrady · 2016-08-15

    Submitted The Real Revolution of Serverless Is Auth, Not Microservices as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. benrady · 2014-10-30

    Submitted Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. pbrowne011 · 2024-12-14

    Submitted CRUFT: An alternative to the Technical Debt metaphor as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. kiyanwang · 2016-08-17

    Submitted Serverless Web Apps: “Client-Service” Architecture Explained as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. benrady · 2016-05-02

    Submitted One Second Services as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. benrady · 2014-01-15

    Submitted Lines of Code is the Best Software Productivity Metric as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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