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John Kary

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John Kary's personal blog at johnkary.net covers programming and culture. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Developers: We are no longer Apple's target market”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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15mentions?
8HN people?
2010–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link John Kary's posts as a pointer to an introduction to git add -p and as a URL fix for a post about Apple no longer targeting developers. No comment judges the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Official website of John Kary: remote-working software developer and development team consultant based in Lawrence, KS using PHP, Symfony and JavaScript

Most-linked posts?

  1. Developers: We are no longer Apple's target market
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-26
  2. Git add -p
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-20
  3. Git add -p: a powerful git feature
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. sfilipov · 2015-09-17
    He referred to what the GP said - use "git add -p". Here's some introduction (I haven't watched it myself and can't comment on the quality): http://johnkary.net/blog/git-add-p-the-most-powerful-git-fea...

    Comment linking /blog/git-add-p-the-most-powerful-git-feature-youre-not-using-yet/

    on “How to Write a Git Commit Message”
  2. joshuacc · 2012-11-05

    Submitted Git add -p: a powerful git feature as a story · 194 points

    HN discussion
  3. jpalacios · 2012-11-13
    FYI adding a trailing forward slash to the url fixes the database error: http://johnkary.net/developers-we-are-no-longer-apples-targe...

    Comment linking /developers-we-are-no-longer-apples-target-market/

    on “Developers: We are no longer Apple’s target market”
  4. robin_reala · 2014-01-20

    Submitted Git add -p as a story · 136 points

    HN discussion
  5. johnkary · 2011-12-13

    Submitted Git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer as a story · 123 points

    HN discussion
  6. johnkary · 2011-10-14

    Submitted Git 1.7.7 changes affecting the everyday developer as a story · 103 points

    HN discussion
  7. adambrod · 2012-11-13

    Submitted Developers: We are no longer Apple’s target market as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  8. johnkary · 2012-10-30

    Submitted Git add -p: The most powerful git feature you're not using yet as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  9. johnkary · 2010-09-10

    Submitted Who Cares? Crowdsourcing Your News Intake as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. johnkary · 2012-07-26

    Submitted Developers: We are no longer Apple's target market as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. johnkary · 2011-10-31

    Submitted I didn't know it couldn't be done, so I did it as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. johnkary · 2011-10-25

    Submitted Getting into The Zone: My Music Recommendations as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. tswicegood · 2010-07-22

    Submitted MediaTemple “WordPress Redirect Exploit” exposes weakness in GridServer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. johnkary · 2014-01-13

    Submitted Stop building broken password inputs (and how to work around the offenders) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. webology · 2011-10-25

    Submitted Getting into The Zone: Music as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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