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Ben Simon

Personal blog · benjisimon.blogspot.comprogrammingwriting

Ben Simon writes Ben's Journal, a personal blog at benjisimon.blogspot.com about programming and writing. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

A random collection of thoughts, comments and photos from Ben Simon.

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  1. Submitted Concepts The Emacs Newbie Should Master as a story · 122 points

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  2. Submitted Thoughts on R7RS as a story · 64 points

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  3. Submitted Flex: The Unix Geek's Ideal Flash Environment as a story · 25 points

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  4. Submitted How Guile (and Scheme) Could Really Win the Language Selection War as a story · 11 points

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  5. Submitted Really Understanding the MapReduce Model as a story · 10 points

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  6. Submitted Chiming in on the MIT Scheme to Python Switch as a story · 8 points

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  7. Submitted Currying For The Working Programmer - Why Bother? as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Mixins - An OO Idea Worth Getting To Know as a story · 1 points

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  9. Submitted Using Technology to Flip the Classroom as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted Thoughts On The Scheme Standardization Effort as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted Scripting GIMP with Scheme as a story · 1 points

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