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Benjamin Encz

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Benjamin Encz writes [Thinking inside a large box];, a personal blog at blog.benjamin-encz.de about programming and culture. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Beware the UIKit Visitors”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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20mentions?
8HN people?
2014–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2016

Most-linked posts?

  1. Beware the UIKit Visitors
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-05-11
  2. Flavors of Engineering Management
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Why I don't believe in Uber's Success as a story · 314 points

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  2. Submitted Beware the UIKit Visitors as a story · 74 points

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  3. Submitted Flavors of Engineering Management as a story · 31 points

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  4. Submitted Apple Isn't Doomed Quite Yet as a story · 5 points

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  5. Submitted Flavors of Engineering Management as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted Declarative API Design in Swift as a story · 4 points

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  7. Submitted Engineering Process Is Overvalued as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted Beware the UIKit Visitors as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted The Downside of Web APIs as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted GCD's Main Queue vs. Main Thread as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Investigating the Quadratic Time Complexity When Adding Subviews in UIKit as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Swift Error Handling and Objective-C Interop in Depth as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted “I didn't know that” is the best way to learn as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Objective-C: Accessing backing iVars of properties in subclasses as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted When you can't avoid Email as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Investigating Quadratic Time Complexity When Adding Subviews in UIKit (2016) as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Modeling one-to-many in SQlite using the JSON1 extension as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Bridging Existentials and Generics in Swift as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Compile Time vs. Run Time Type Checking in Swift as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Arithmetic Expressions in Swift as a story · 1 points

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