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Bob Bickel

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Bob Bickel writes Bickel Blog, a personal blog at bobbickel.blogspot.com about business and programming. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Thoughts from the Ringside: Ringside Winding Down”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2008–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

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

Why HN links it

Linked once, bare, in an HN thread on Paul Graham's new attitude toward startup acquisitions. The URL slug suggests a 2008 post titled 'ringside winding down'. No comment discusses the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Bob Bickel comments on business and life.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Thoughts from the Ringside: Ringside Winding Down
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-10-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://bobbickel.blogspot.com/2008/09/ringside-winding-down....

    Comment linking /2008/09/ringside-winding-down.html

    on “Paul Graham on a New Attitude for Startup Acquisitions ”
  2. Submitted Thoughts from the Ringside: Ringside Winding Down as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Bickel Blog: PaaS and ADHD as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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