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Hacktastic
Personal blog · hack-tastic.blogspot.comprogramming
Hacktastic is a personal blog at hack-tastic.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Pyramids”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's allegory about programmers and their learning, cited as a parallel to a commenter's own experience of replacing Java with Clojure at work. The comment does not evaluate the writing.
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?
- Pyramids2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-22
What Hacker News says?
That's an interesting approach! I tried more or less the opposite: wrote a patch replacing hundreds of lines of Java with dozens of lines of Clojure, then showed it to the team. It didn't work out so well. Here's an allegory that more or less parallels my experience: http://hack-tastic.blogspot.com/2013/04/most-people-who-grad...
Comment linking /2013/04/most-people-who-graduate-with-cs.html
on “Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer (2006)”Submitted Remote code evaluation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ode to Review Board as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pyramids as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacktastic - Clojure RPG build series as a story · 1 points
HN discussion