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Hostile Developer
Personal blog · hostiledeveloper.comprogrammingcareer
Hostile Developer is a personal blog at hostiledeveloper.com about programming and career. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “On why learning to program is hard”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a reply in an 'Is Python dying?' thread, comparing Python and Ruby FizzBuzz code. It does not mention the blog or its writing, so the reason HN links it is unclear.
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?
- On why learning to program is hard3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-26
What Hacker News says?
> Ruby allows for nicer looking code and readability Have you ever actually used Ruby? Here's what FizzBuzz looks like in Python: def fizz_buzz(number): if number%3 == 0: return "fizz" if number%5 == 0: return "buzz" return str(number) for num in range(1,101): print(fizz_buzz(num)) Compare that to the hideous mess of fizz buzz in Ruby [1] -- there's a lot of magic going on there. Many unfamiliar operators, line #2 i…
Comment linking /2014/04/26/on-why-learning-to-program-is-hard.html
on “Ask HN: Is Python dying?”Submitted On why learning to program is hard as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generators, Promises and writing sync looking async code as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why learning to program is hard as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using ruby to learn JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closures in Ruby and JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussion