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Heather Arthur
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Heather Arthur writes Heather's Paragraphs, a personal blog at harthur.wordpress.com about programming and culture. Since 2010, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Heather Arthur's blog is linked for her writing on open source, especially her posts on dealing with critics and being ridiculed over her code. Her utilities such as replace also come up.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-12-07
- What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-01-24
- Dealing With (Not Dealing With) the Open Source Assholes3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-07-03
- /2011/06/06/replace/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-24
- Getting the Color Scheme of a Website Using Canvas and Hierarchical Clustering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-18
What Hacker News says?
Even if the tool wasn't as useful as the traditional tool users have liked, I think that the following was an interesting comment: I think that, at least hypothetically, this app won’t be significantly faster written in C than in JavaScript. It’s I/O bound, and in JS regular expressions get JITted to native code (which sed won’t even do!). The real slowdown here with our current JS implementations will be overhead f…
Comment linking /2011/06/06/replace/
on “What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project”Submitted What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project as a story · 1331 points
HN discussionIn his(her?) own words: http://harthur.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/replace/
Comment linking /2011/06/06/replace/
on “What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project”Submitted Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013) as a story · 335 points
HN discussionI like his earlier writing too, on dealing with "open source assholes": http://harthur.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/dealing-with-not-dea...
Comment linking /2011/06/30/dealing-with-not-dealing-with-the-open-source-assholes/
on “What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project”Submitted Dealing With (Not Dealing With) the Open Source Assholes as a story · 46 points
HN discussionfind + sed complaints were somewhat anticipated: http://harthur.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/replace/
Comment linking /2011/06/06/replace/
on “What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project”Submitted Dealing With (Not Dealing With) the Open Source Assholes (2011) as a story · 33 points
HN discussion> always protective, never nasty Nobody's perfect https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/
Comment linking /2013/01/24/771/
on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted Why I don't talk about where I work and why its important to me (2015) as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI'm intrigued by how long this thread has gone without anybody mentioning Heather Arthur's gender. Did her critics know she was a woman at the time they ridiculed her code? If so, did that fact embolden them or make them more prone to belittle her work? Would a man's friends have come so quickly to his defense, over a piece of code? Would the men who had made her cry been so quick to feel shitty about it and apologi…
Comment linking /2013/01/24/771/
on “I'm sorry”Submitted Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionAn addition that most posts, including this would benefit from: Be incredibly kind when judging other people for their projects . What goes around comes back around. IMO a lot of the problem is not in finding things to blog about, but the fact that the Internet hive mind will casually toss off incredibly unkind criticism about your projects. I remember https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/ making the rounds…
Comment linking /2013/01/24/771/
on “What to blog about”Submitted Getting the Color Scheme of a Website Using Canvas and Hierarchical Clustering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey should expect that, but instead they are getting sympathy in this thread, quite ironically: https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/
Comment linking /2013/01/24/771/
on “The reason people burn out on open source”Submitted Dealing With (Not Dealing With) the Open Source Assholes « Heather Arthur's blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYet he mocked the existence of a open source project not that long ago https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/
Comment linking /2013/01/24/771/
on “The reason people burn out on open source”This idea can be extended even further, to users who do not know how to (or cannot) build the software in question. One example of this is mozregressionfinder [1] that was created by Heather Arthur [2]. The tool automatically downloads Firefox nightly builds (in the same binary search pattern of bisect) and lets the user check for the bug they observed in each version. Once the nightly build where the bug was introd…
Comment linking /2010/09/13/mozregression-update/
on “Git is an editor, and rebase is the backspace key”This is why I love programming -- and the programming community, warts and all. Tiffany's an Environmental Science major who had a month of free time so she decided to learn how to make web pages. That's the same way I started (albeit as an English major), and the cocktail of instant feedback and ease of discovery kept me as a happy addict of the command line ever since. To me, accessibility and approachability are…
Comment linking /2013/01/24/771/
on “That Time I Made A Website”> Someone who bullies women programmers Whoa...slow down there, hoss. Steve explained that his tweet about @harthur's replace utility was not meant to disparage its author, or its code, but was meant to express his feelings about Node (i.e. the ecosystem for which replace was written). And, he apologized, "unequivocably", for the fact that his tweet had caused pain to @harthur: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/201…
Comment linking /2013/02/01/open-source-rocks-follow-up/
on “How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year”The comments here remind me of the negative feedback Heather Arthur got when she dared to open-source some code: http://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/ . The code is on Github. If you find a bug then why not fix it and send a pull-request instead of the negative public criticsm?
Comment linking /2013/01/24/771/
on “Show HN: Quickly copy a file between computers”>"...try programming for a day without Googling. Then two days, maybe a week. See how it feels. Remember that there was a time we programmed without copying our work." Once I decided I really wanted to learn to write code I just plain stopped with the copying and even referencing anything beyond docs or a thorough book. I work to create a functional implementation of whatever it is I'm looking for, no matter how nai…
Comment linking /2013/01/24/771/
on “Am I really a developer or just a good Googler?”Something like this, maybe? http://harthur.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/getting-the-color-sc...
Comment linking /2009/12/18/getting-the-color-scheme-of-a-website-using-canvas-and-hierarchical-clustering/
on “Full screen, in browser, Flash 10.1 content shown running on a Nexus One”
