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David Arno
Personal blog · davidarno.orgprogrammingweb
David Arno's personal blog at davidarno.org covers programming and web. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Arno's 2008 post about flying to New York to buy Adobe software more cheaply than in Australia. One commenter notes the same price gap exists in the UK.
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.
My general tech related thoughts and ideas
What Hacker News says?
Same story in the UK http://www.davidarno.org/2008/09/15/fly-to-new-york-and-buy-... (2008)
Comment linking /2008/09/15/fly-to-new-york-and-buy-your-software-its-cheaper-than-buying-in-britain/
on “It is cheaper to fly to US than buy Adobe software in Australia”Submitted Why the "private" keyword is the modern day "goto" as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML5 must not become the future of the web as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why JavaScript is a toy language as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted C# 7 language design dilemmas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your choice: whine about Flash crashing, or help make it better as a story · 1 points
HN discussion