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Joel Burget

Personal blog · joelburget.com · on HN as joelburgetprogrammingai

Joel Burget's personal blog at joelburget.com covers programming and ai. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Khan Academy moving to React.js + Backbone”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link this blog in threads about hiring and front-end frameworks, but none of the comments mention its writing. The comments only show job-post text and a note on React and Ember components.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Joel Burget — software engineer working across machine learning, programming languages, and formal methods.

The author on HN?

joelburget · 694 karma · member since 2010

Building programming tools. Living in Portland. Former Khan Academy and Recurser (Hacker Schooler). https://joelburget.com https://twitter.com/joel_burget https://github.com/joelburget

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Khan Academy moving to React.js + Backbone
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-10-29
  2. The Expression Problem and Tables
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility for the right candidate) --- At Khan Academy, we're a small, 52-person non-profit tech startup. We're trying hard to do good for the world. Here's a testimonial we received just two days ago: January 29, 2014 I am an adult returning to school for a midlife career change. I have always disliked math and thought I was bad at it -- and my last math cl…

    Comment linking /backbone-to-react/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)”
  2. Submitted Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text as a story · 109 points

    HN discussion
  3. Hi all, As you're planning your New Year's resolutions, consider: if you could work anywhere, what would you do? - Wouldn't you want to work towards really making the world a better place? - Wouldn't you want to work with a top-notch team alongside some of the brightest engineers in the industry? - Wouldn't you want to work on solving interesting problems that haven't been solved before? --- At Khan Academy, I truly…

    Comment linking /backbone-to-react/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)”
  4. Submitted Khan Academy moving to React.js + Backbone as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  5. Think of Angular directives, Ember components, and React components as attempting to solve the problem of web components in your view. I'm using react right now in a rails application at work. While it hasn't totally replaced my haml views, I definitely sprinkle it in where appropriate. It does a great job of handling dynamic uis and gives a standard, easy to understand structure to my javascript. I think of it is a…

    Comment linking /backbone-to-react/

    on “Ember Tutorial”
  6. Submitted The Expression Problem and Tables as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Expression Problem and Tables as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Third Age of Computing Is Dependently Typed as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Writing Einsum in Depth (In OCaml) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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