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Doug Kaye

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Doug Kaye writes Blogarithms, a personal blog at blogarithms.com about programming and startups. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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2007–2023first – 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

One commenter links Doug Kaye's 2005 post with a cars-versus-Windows analogy to show the comparison is not recent. The comment does not judge the writing.

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.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. It's actually not a recent analogy https://blogarithms.com/2005/01/07/if-cars-worked-like-windo...

    Comment linking /2005/01/07/if-cars-worked-like-windows/

    on “Windows 98 Icons are Great”
  2. Submitted ITC Conversations Network done and finished, turning off Dec 1st as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Skype for Interviews - A How-To Video as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted ITConversation using Amazon S3 for Infrastructure-on-Demand as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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