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Dead Programmer's Cafe
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Dead Programmer's Cafe is a personal blog at deadprogrammer.com about programming and culture. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for a picture of the Amdahl coffee mug, tied to a story about an IBM salesman being told to cut a million-dollar price offer. Another comment quotes Charles Simonyi on declining visualization with age.
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.
Blogging since 2002
What Hacker News says?
When an IBM salesman saw a coffee cup with the Amdahl Logo at a customers site, he was instructed to cut one million dollar of his price offer. That was the one million dollar coffee mug. http://dealwhisperers.blogspot.co.il/2015/07/a-million-dolla... here is a picture of it http://www.deadprogrammer.com/fud-you
Comment linking /fud-you
on “Gene Amdahl has died”Submitted The Capacitor Plague as a story · 84 points
HN discussionCharles Simonyi: I have to really concentrate, and I might even get a headache just trying to imagine something clearly and distinctly with twenty or thirty components. When I was young, I could easily imagine a castle with twenty rooms with each room having ten different objects in it. I can't do that anymore. I think he went on to say that his declining abilities forced him to become a better programmer, but unfor…
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on “Is high IQ as much a burden as a blessing?”Submitted The Turkish Coffee Syndrome as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dummy Transistor Effect as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developer Life, Yo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Learning to Code. Or Not. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Starbucks Siren Became Less Naughty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Plywood-Armored Tractor Tank as a story · 1 points
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