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coliveira.net is a personal blog at coliveira.net about programming and career. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Why Learning Prolog Can Make You a Better Programmer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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45mentions?
11HN people?
2008–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 20 in 2009

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

Why HN links it

The only linked comment is a Vim thread reply arguing that editors' one-big-file habits are historical; it does not discuss any coliveira.net post.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why Learning Prolog Can Make You a Better Programmer
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-08
  2. The Wasteful Legacy of Programming as Language
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. I did this exercise, and to tell the truth, it works better than "normal" editors for some tasks. For example, fixing bugs from a C compilation, checking a particular line, finding some structure on file based on regular expressions. Nowadays, I use ed regularly whenever possible. I even wrote a blog post on my experiments: http://coliveira.net/software/using-ed-the-standard-unix-edi...

    Comment linking /software/using-ed-the-standard-unix-editor/

    on “How grep got its name”
  2. Submitted A Short Introduction to Prolog as a story · 102 points

    HN discussion
  3. It's a lie. The true reason is purely historical. Editor where just TOO SLOW to handle big files (on DOS they often were limited to 64kb, if not less) Please note that I love "modular code", hence the notion of "sections" in my big file. To clarify: I love to edit one big file, but for other purposes I definitely need small ones. What I am basically proposing is that it is easier to edit multiple files from within a…

    Comment linking /software/editing-multiple-files-in-a-single-buffer/

    on “Two weeks with Vim”
  4. Submitted Why Learning Prolog Can Make You a Better Programmer as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Readability Advantages of C over C++ as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Good People Work Hard as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Examples of second system syndrome as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Wasteful Legacy of Programming as Language as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Why great programmers don’t make as much money as soccer stars? as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Measure Performance Before Optimizing as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Is there anything new in Visual Studio 2010? as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Why learning Prolog can make you a better programmer (2009) as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted New Features of C# 4.0 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted What all programmers have in common as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Wasteful Legacy of Programming as Language as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Becoming a better developer, day 4: Lean a New Programming Language as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted When in Doubt, Create an Interface as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Using Git and SVN at the same time as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The Problem with C++ Templates as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Avoiding Singletons as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted How much code should you write? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Using meta programming whenever possible as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Why GUI systems are object oriented? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted First impressions of Google wave as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted How to access mysql from SBCL (on Linux) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Give Only One Responsibility to Each Class as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Keep a Programming Diary as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Becoming a better developer, day 2: Write Shorter Methods as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted The power of doing the right thing in programming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Is Using Hash Tables a Good Thing? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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