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Bryan Bibat
Personal blog · blog.bryanbibat.netprogrammingweb
Bryan Bibat writes existence, refactored, a personal blog at blog.bryanbibat.net about programming and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal blog whose linked posts include a programming joke about liar-paradox hats and an essay on management and theories of value. The comments cite or joke about these posts without judging the writing.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
Peopleware calls this the Spanish Theory of Management[0]. Historians long ago formed an abstraction about different theories of value: The Spanish Theory, for one, held that only a fixed amount of value existed on earth, and therefore the path to the accumulation of wealth was to learn to extract it more efficiently from the soil or from people’s backs. Then there was the English Theory that held that value could b…
Comment linking /2009/08/31/spanish-theory-of-value/
on “Individuals Matter”Submitted Starting a “professional” Rails 3.1 app with Web App Theme, Devise, and Kaminari as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnd that's why SO gets mad when I come home with six cartons of milk[1]. [1]: https://blog.bryanbibat.net/2013/01/02/programming-joke/
Comment linking /2013/01/02/programming-joke/
on “A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."”Submitted Making an HTML5 knockoff of Chinese arcade game knockoffs with Phaser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRelated to this but somewhat off-topic: I just worked through Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial[1] and early on he mentions that it's depressing to work on something with absolutely zero style. (He uses Blueprint to jumpstart the process and then gives chunks of CSS along the way, so that what you're looking at as you work is never awful/empty/unstyled.) Along those lines but even more fully-baked, I just found Pilu's[2]…
Comment linking /2011/01/03/starting-a-professional-rails-app-with-haml-rspec-devise-and-web-app-theme/
on “Announcing Dresssed.com: Premium Rails Themes”Submitted Hacked together a minimal Windows installer for Rails 3.1 (with MySQL support) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sowing the Seeds - how we introduce "exotic" technologies to college students as a story · 1 points
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