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Dustin Martin

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Dustin Martin's personal blog at dustinmartin.net covers programming, web and career. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

Only one comment, a reply in a thread on controversial programming opinions that rebukes a commenter's Java criticism. It does not discuss the author's writing, so HN's reason for linking is unclear.

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. I'm sorry, but your comment is really not much more than pointless, cynical Java bashing. Java has it's share of problems, and it's definitely not as modern (regarding language features) as some of the other languages today (although that seems to be changing too), but if you're going to attack it, then at least do it for it's bad characteristics, not because you personally dislike/don't understand certain features,…

    Comment linking /2009/10/getters-and-setters-in-scala/

    on “Hopefully more controversial programming opinions”
  2. Submitted Query Array of Objects in Postgres as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Developers Are in the UX Business as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Code Review Hygiene as a story · 1 points

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