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Dorophone is a personal blog at dorophone.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2008, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (2011)”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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2008–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2011

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Most-linked posts?

  1. The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (2011)
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-07-22
  2. A survey of syntactic extension techniques in the Lisp family of languages
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-08-02
  3. Implementing Monads in Emacs Lisp (2011)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-20
  4. A Hyperturtle Monad Makes Pretty Pictures
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://dorophone.blogspot.com/ ;; elisp/picolisp stuff. monads, sexp, fexpr. inspiring. http://okmij.org/ftp/ ;; general cs ftw. too deep. http://john.freml.in/ ;; nice http server perf in clisp. http://www.learningclojure.com/ ;; get the most of clojure in terms of cpu cycles. refreshing. http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/ ;; perf, lo-level details about java. refreshing. btw, swegr ~= hacker ?

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    on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”
  2. Submitted The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (2011) as a story · 146 points

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  3. Gosh, so weird to see that perl snippet. I love the empty degrees of separation predicates, https://gist.github.com/philfreo/7257723#file-gistfile1-pl-L... I can't help but to think he should have gone list monadic {and lisp too but well, enough dogma}: http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/04/deep-emacs-part-1.html

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    on “Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (2005)”
  4. Submitted Duckspeak vs. Smalltalk: Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple (2011) as a story · 122 points

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  5. This was published in the New Yorker, and there was some discussion about it when PARC posted something on their blog responding to it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2548325 An interesting letter was printed in a subsequent issue: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2011/06/27/110627m... whose author wrote a longer blog post about this: http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk... I fi…

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    on “Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation.”
  6. Submitted Common Lisp Reader Macros: A Simple Introduction as a story · 38 points

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  7. J.V.Toups has a nice set of articles of monads in elisp: http://dorophone.blogspot.com/search/label/monads

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    on “Monadic Programming in Scheme”
  8. Submitted A pattern Matching Library for Elisp as a story · 37 points

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  9. Submitted Struquine: A Useful Lisp Trick as a story · 31 points

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  10. Submitted A Hyperturtle Monad Makes Pretty Pictures as a story · 20 points

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  11. Submitted Smug Lisp Weenies and Lateral Thinking as a story · 20 points

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  12. Submitted Parenlab: S-expressions on top of Matlab/Octave as a story · 7 points

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  13. Submitted A survey of syntactic extension techniques in the Lisp family of languages as a story · 6 points

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  14. Submitted Duckspeak Vs Smalltalk: The Decline of the Xerox Philosophy at Apple as a story · 6 points

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  15. Submitted A Survey of Syntactic Extension Techniques in the Lisp Family of Languages as a story · 4 points

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  16. Submitted Implementing Monads in Emacs Lisp (2011) as a story · 3 points

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  17. Submitted Dorophone: Introducing Gazelle as a story · 3 points

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  18. Submitted The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers as a story · 3 points

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  19. Submitted A (meditative) Survey of Syntactic Extension in the Lisp Family (Part 1) as a story · 3 points

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  20. Submitted Implementing Monads in Emacs Lisp as a story · 3 points

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  21. Submitted Gazelle- a sensible Lisp for Javascript as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Hyperturtle Monad as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted Understanding the Haskell IO Monad By Building a Toy Model in Scheme as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Survey of Syntactic Extensions in Lisp Family : elisp, CL, Clojure,Arc, defmacro as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted Creating macros in MATLAB as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted Is Abstraction a Double Edged Sword? as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Farmville and the Face of Transdehumanism as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted On the Randomness of Pi as a story · 1 points

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