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bnjs
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bnjs is a personal blog at bnjs.co about startups and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Rails Date class, durations, Ruby inheritance, and BasicObject”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on oddities in Rails 4.1 ActiveSupport::Duration, and for notes on a Peter Thiel lecture on competition and monopolies. Commenters cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rails Date class, durations, Ruby inheritance, and BasicObject2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-14
- CS183B Lecture 5: Peter Thiel “Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory” Notes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-12
What Hacker News says?
Very rough first transcript, I'm ironing out the typos and formatting: http://www.bnjs.co/2014/09/25/transcript-lecture-1-how-to-st...
Comment linking /2014/09/25/transcript-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-startup/
on “How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014”Submitted CS183B Lecture 5: Peter Thiel “Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory” Notes as a story · 15 points
HN discussionVery rough first pass transcription, I'm ironing out the typos: http://www.bnjs.co/2014/09/25/transcript-lecture-1-how-to-st...
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on “How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014”Submitted Transcript: Paul Graham in Conversation with Nathan Blecharczyk as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAs a counter-point, PG had this to say about startups: "The surprising thing here is that you can safely hill climb. If you guys are programmers... What percentage of the people here are programmers? Ok, a lot of programmers, so you all know what hill climbing is. You just do this simplest growth algorithm, you just go wherever it leads up from here. And you don't plan for the future, you don't try and think about t…
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on “Climbing the wrong hill (2009)”Submitted Expressing the Liar Paradox in Ruby as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah sounds like in the same ballpark. David Stostik did a nice writeup of the oddities of ActiveSupport::Duration 4.1 here http://www.bnjs.co/2015/01/14/rails-date-class-durations-and... . I'm surprised that I haven't seen anything about that respond_to? change in the blogs; maybe I've just missed it. I might blog this, although I hate ending a post with "gosh I don't know about this one". Makes me feel like I have…
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on “Ruby 2.4.0-preview1 released”Submitted Rails Date class, durations, Ruby inheritance, and BasicObject as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wholeheartedly agree with you. A world of centralized monopolies is quite a scary prospect. Less so when they are not enforced by government, but concerning nonetheless. However not everyone in tech feels this way. I detect this sentiment in the parent. See: Peter Thiel's thoughts on competition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLWyP83iU5M http://www.bnjs.co/notes/cs183b-lecture-5-peter-thiel-busine...
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on “GitHub lock-in?”Submitted CS183B Lecture 1: Dustin Moskovitz “Why to Start a Startup” Notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Checklist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transcript: Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Want an iWatch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When 1.day is not an Object as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sam Altman “Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution” Highlights as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Pebble Smartwatch as a story · 1 points
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