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Personal blog · fluff.info/blog/archprogrammingphilosophy
fluff.info is a personal blog at fluff.info about programming and philosophy. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Lisp: A Cult I Almost Joined (2005)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link these posts for a joke about IBM and the Holocaust and for a reply on LivingSocial as a cautionary tale about unicorn growth culture. No comment judges the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Lisp: A Cult I Almost Joined (2005)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-18
What Hacker News says?
They ought to hold IBM responsible for Facilitating the Holocaust as well... http://fluff.info/blog/ibm/ibm10000.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMgZ6515_EQ
Comment linking /blog/ibm/ibm10000.jpg
on “EFF Files Brief in Case to Hold IBM Responsible for Facilitating Apartheid”Submitted Lisp: a cult I almost joined (2005) as a story · 52 points
HN discussionYou said it perfectly. Allow me to address the larger, hurt feelings behind this post, with a reminder of the difference between a cult and a religion: > If, on appropriate occasions, the members tell, enjoy, trade, and/or devise transgressively funny jokes about their denomination, it’s a church. > If such jokes reliably meet with stifling social disapproval, it’s a cult. [1] The phrase "Cult of growth" comes to mi…
Comment linking /blog/arch/00000127.htm
on “LivingSocial Offers a Cautionary Tale to Today’s Unicorns”Submitted Lisp: A Cult I Almost Joined (2005) as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cult of Inventor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Balancing the budget, against common sense? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incrementalist vs. revolutionary as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
