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Ben Simon
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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.
A random collection of thoughts, comments and photos from Ben Simon.
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Concepts The Emacs Newbie Should Master as a story · 122 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on R7RS as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flex: The Unix Geek's Ideal Flash Environment as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Guile (and Scheme) Could Really Win the Language Selection War as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Really Understanding the MapReduce Model as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chiming in on the MIT Scheme to Python Switch as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Currying For The Working Programmer - Why Bother? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mixins - An OO Idea Worth Getting To Know as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Technology to Flip the Classroom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts On The Scheme Standardization Effort as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scripting GIMP with Scheme as a story · 1 points
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