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David Megginson

Personal blog · megginson.com/blogs/quoderatprogrammingdata

David Megginson's personal blog at megginson.com covers programming and data. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2007–2009first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2007

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link David Megginson's blog essay "All markup ends up looking like XML", which compares XML, JSON and s-expressions. The only comment cites it as a source in the XML backlash discussion.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Megginson's essay "All markup ends up looking like XML" compares XML, JSON and s-exp http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/01/03/all-marku...

    Comment linking /blogs/quoderat/2007/01/03/all-markup-ends-up-looking-like-xml/

    on “XML Backlash?”
  2. Submitted Open Data matters more than Open Source as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Costing out Google App Engine as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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