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Doug Rathbone

Personal blog · diaryofaninja.comprogrammingcareer

Doug Rathbone's personal blog at diaryofaninja.com covers programming and career. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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42mentions?
10HN people?
2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 26 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Cited in one HN comment as a source on concerns about Mac App Store DRM and piracy, alongside other articles on the topic. The comment does not judge the post itself.

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.

Leadership musings and hackery from the Perl generation

What Hacker News says?

  1. jimbobimbo · 2012-09-30
    1. http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php 2: * http://www.diaryofaninja.com/blog/2012/04/25/cause-for-conce... * http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/12/window... * http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/piracy-and-the-apple-app-... * http://www.switched.com/2011/01/07/apple-mac-app-store-drm-h... If I roll my own protection, I can make changes quickly. If I rely on store owner I need to deal with their prio…

    Comment linking /blog/2012/04/25/cause-for-concern--piracy-on-windows-phone-7

    on “Metro Apps Can Only Be Distributed Through Windows Store”
  2. DougRathbone · 2011-09-27

    Submitted What good Web Developers should know about sending E-mail as a story · 119 points

    HN discussion
  3. DougRathbone · 2012-03-27

    Submitted I’m a Junior Developer – You probably are too as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  4. DougRathbone · 2012-06-12

    Submitted Let Your Nerd Flag Fly – Your Career Will Thank You as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. DougRathbone · 2012-03-06

    Submitted DNS for Developers – Now There’s No Excuse Not To Know as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  6. DougRathbone · 2012-03-27

    Submitted The Line Between Insanity and Genius. Where Do You Draw Yours? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. parmgrewal · 2012-03-06

    Submitted DevOps DNS for Developers – Now There’s No Excuse Not To Know - Diary Of A Ninja as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Funcky · 2012-10-04

    Submitted The Pitfalls of Cut and Paste Coding as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. lgv · 2012-03-06

    Submitted DevOps DNS for Developers – Now There’s No Excuse Not To Know as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. arash_milani · 2014-09-29

    Submitted So you want your Team to start using Git? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. wiredone · 2013-12-05

    Submitted Why Reflection Isn't Always Your Friend as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. wiredone · 2013-11-28

    Submitted Deconstructing the Azure Point-to-Site VPN for Command Line usage as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. wiredone · 2013-09-04

    Submitted Programmatically clearing the ASP.Net cache for Web Forms and MVC pages as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. wiredone · 2013-02-07

    Submitted All Bugs Are Not Created Equal as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. DougRathbone · 2012-05-23

    Submitted Configure Your Next Website’s Signal to Noise Ratio – Install a www. Filter as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. DougRathbone · 2012-03-12

    Submitted What ASP.Net MVC Developers Can Learn From GitHub’s Security Woes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. DougRathbone · 2012-01-23

    Submitted 8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. devuatl · 2012-01-01

    Submitted 10 tips to help avoid developer burn out as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. DougRathbone · 2011-11-16

    Submitted When you really need E-mail delivered – Signing your mail using Domain Keys/DKIM as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. DougRathbone · 2011-10-19

    Submitted Xbox Kinect Hub Remake - An Introduction To New User Interfaces as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. barredo · 2011-05-12

    Submitted Windows Phone 7 Live Tile Schedules & How to execute instant Live Tile updates as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. mafuyu · 2014-04-14

    Submitted 101 Pedantic Programmer’s thoughts on Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X240 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. wiredone · 2014-02-18

    Submitted Who said building Visual Studio Extensions was hard? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. wiredone · 2014-01-29

    Submitted Balancing Security with Usability as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. wiredone · 2014-01-09

    Submitted Why Bronze Medal Thinking Wins Every Time – Agile Development Teams as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. wiredone · 2013-05-21

    Submitted Introducing My Cloud Deployment Service for ASP.Net sites, OnCheckin.com as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. wiredone · 2012-11-29

    Submitted The Internet Event Horizon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. wiredone · 2012-10-02

    Submitted The Pitfalls of Cut and Paste Coding as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. wiredone · 2012-09-26

    Submitted Integration Testing FTP Connections in .Net as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. wiredone · 2012-09-13

    Submitted Eek .Net 2.0 Mixed Mode Assemblies inside VS2012 Test Projects as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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