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Closure Tools Blog

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Closure Tools Blog is the company blog at closuretools.blogspot.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Using Polymer with Closure Compiler – Part 1: Type Information”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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14mentions?
11HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite the SOLID Go Design post on the Liskov substitution principle, which argues that subclass intuitions in class hierarchies mislead, and an older post on Google Closure Library tips.

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?

  1. /2012/06/subtyping-functions-without-poking-your.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-23
  2. Using Polymer with Closure Compiler – Part 1: Type Information
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. > Developers will very intuitively see the bass class as the one that handles the most common cases, and subclasses as the exceptions that "override" and vary things a little bit. This intuition is wrong. Java-style classes don't handle the cases you think they handle. In particular, you don't have any guarantees at all about the meaning of non-final methods, precisely because they can be overridden by subclasses an…

    Comment linking /2012/06/subtyping-functions-without-poking-your.html

    on “SOLID Go Design”
  2. Submitted Google releases its own Javascript Lint tool as a story · 115 points

    HN discussion
  3. I don't see how it can be argued that 'L' is intuitive to intermediate level developers. Even for senior developers you still have to stop and think rather than trust your gut. Developers will very intuitively see the bass class as the one that handles the most common cases, and subclasses as the exceptions that "override" and vary things a little bit. My favorite example is the Doctor that can see all patients, and…

    Comment linking /2012/06/subtyping-functions-without-poking-your.html

    on “SOLID Go Design”
  4. Submitted Intro to Google's open source JavaScript rich text / HTML editor as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  5. http://closuretools.blogspot.com/2010/06/closure-library-tec...

    Comment linking /2010/06/closure-library-tech-talk-at-google-io.html

    on “Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript”
  6. Submitted Closure Compiler: High-level overview of a compilation job as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Closure Compiler: This Var is My Var as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Google I/O: Welcome to the Closure Tools Blog as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Using Polymer with Closure Compiler – Part 1: Type Information as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Using Polymer with Closure Compiler – Part 1: Type Information as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Call of the Octocat: From Google Code to GitHub – Closure Tools Blog as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Closure Compiler at O'Reilly Velocity Conference 2010 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted A Property By Any Other Name, Part 1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A Property By Any Other Name, Part 2 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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