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David Jacobs
Personal blog · wit.io/postsprogrammingcareer
David Jacobs's personal blog at wit.io covers programming and career. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Jacobs' posts on leaving medical school for software engineering and on opinions about programming languages, such as Ruby versus Python. Commenters discuss both topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a Product Manager at Google. I use data and UX to drive great products. And it turns out—the toughest problems are won in translation.
Most-linked posts?
- Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-31
- The 'ugliness' of Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-31
What Hacker News says?
Well said. After four years of gearing up to go to medical school, I dropped that goal and went into software engineering. I wrote about this choice pretty extensively, as it was not an excruciating decision [0]. In spite of how much I really wanted med school, I also wanted a life. I tried to maintain a life while applying to med school, full of all the hobbies that make my life fun, but balancing those two wasn't…
Comment linking /posts/pivot-my-journey-from-medicine-into-technology
on “Why you should not go to medical school”Submitted Clojure: All grown up as a story · 240 points
HN discussionThe follow up http://wit.io/posts/the-ugliness-of-python is in my opinion, more interesting. I always find it funny how different people think different languages are ugly.
Comment linking /posts/the-ugliness-of-python
on “Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)”Submitted Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python) as a story · 122 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 'ugliness' of Python as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted My personal pivot from medicine into technology as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby is beautiful (but I’m moving to Python) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pivot: My journey from medicine into technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussion