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Jim Hoskins

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Jim Hoskins's personal blog at jimhoskins.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “AngularJS and scope.$apply”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post on criticisms of Angular. The one comment on it calls the post a rehash of long-circulating problems and says most of the issues are avoidable gotchas.

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. AngularJS and scope.$apply
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is a rehash of the same problems that have been circulating for years [0]. There is literately not a single original thing here. Most of these issues are gotchas that can easily be avoided once the developer is aware of them (such as scope inheritance / dynamic scope which is due to Javascript Prototypal Inheritance [1]). What's ironic is that angular 2 is fully rewritten in part to fix all of these issues, but…

    Comment linking /2012/12/14/nested-scopes-in-angularjs.html

    on “Criticisms of Angular”
  2. Submitted IOS fanboy switches to Android as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted AngularJS and scope.$apply as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted AngularJS and scope.$apply as a story · 2 points

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