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Ed Andersen
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Ed Andersen's personal blog at edandersen.com covers programming and writing. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Ed Andersen's posts on Windows 8.1's backup story and on Evernote dropping WPF, citing them as examples in discussions of Microsoft's GUI and software choices.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
You should be able to bypass the proxy that inserts the HTTP headers with the following APN on O2: apn: mobile.o2.co.uk username: bypass password: password Worked in 2008 when I tried it ( http://www.edandersen.com/2008/07/13/iphone-o2-fix-the-image... ) as they used to screw with images on the App Store. I don't have access to O2 anymore, can someone try this and see if it still works? Edit: It still includes your…
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on “UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit”Submitted Windows 8.1’s user-hostile backup story as a story · 94 points
HN discussionI think you might have missed the point of what the author was saying. Check out the screenshot he posted: http://www.edandersen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/image.p... Notice it says that your files are "automatically backed up to the cloud"?
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on “Windows 8.1’s user-hostile backup story”Submitted An ode to Surface 3 as a story · 18 points
HN discussionA notable example I remember from around 2010 was when Evernote dropped WPF, supposedly due to blurry text issues but probably also performance (remember when we called it EverBloat?) Can't find the original blog post about it but here's a couple mentions of it: - https://www.edandersen.com/p/evernote-has-no-patience-drops-... - https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/x0nu7h/comment/im9k...
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on “Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold”Submitted Backup and Restore is back in Windows 10 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hidden full screen web page kiosk mode in Windows 10 Anniversary as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life with Surface RT – and why I’ve upgraded to a Surface Pro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adblock on Surface Windows RT's locked down IE10 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I won’t be returning my Microsoft Surface RT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multiple Monitors? You Should Buy VMWare Fusion Instead of Parallels Desktop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Use a Macbook Pro as a Windows .NET Software Developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ASP.NET MVC Basics Part 1: View Model binding as a story · 1 points
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