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Greg Maletic

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Greg Maletic's personal blog at gregmaletic.wordpress.com covers programming and business. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why shouldn’t we be competing against our developers? (2006)”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2011–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Greg Maletic's post arguing that Silverlight has the same security vulnerability as WebGL. The thread compares browser-based graphics APIs and the mashup model to OpenDoc.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why shouldn’t we be competing against our developers? (2006)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. In some ways, WebGL reminds me of OpenDoc - a consortium of competitors offering the mashup model as an alternative to OS implementation while ignoring salient performance issues. In no small part because the proposal breaks the architecture of Microsoft's implementation and is coupled with a PR campaign to negate the implementation advantage Microsoft has based on the nature of their product portfolio and market se…

    Comment linking /2006/11/12/opendoc/

    on “Silverlight Has the Exact Same Vulnerability That WebGL Does”
  2. Submitted Why shouldn’t we be competing against our developers? (2006) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted OpenDoc (2006) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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