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Blaine Buxton

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Blaine Buxton's personal blog at blog.blainebuxton.com covers programming and career. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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2008–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked 2003 post is about Erlang and quotes Alan Kay saying it is worth looking at. The one comment only cites that quote and does not judge the writing.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. http://blog.blainebuxton.com/2003/09/erlang-i-got-following-... Kay says: Erlang is worth looking at.

    Comment linking /2003/09/erlang-i-got-following-reply-from-alan.html

    on “Go and Rust – objects without class (2013)”
  2. Submitted Javascript: Stop Fighting It as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Source code in files - how quaint as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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