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John Lawrence Aspden
Personal blog · johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.comphilosophyprogramming
John Lawrence Aspden writes Random Thoughts, a personal blog at johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com about philosophy and programming. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Blogspot essays by John Lawrence Aspden. The one comment linking his work cites a post on eating-place pathology, in a thread about why restaurants got so loud.
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.
Trying to work out what I think about things by writing it down.
What Hacker News says?
John Lawrence Aspden on eating-place pathology: http://johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com/2018/09/do-right-thin...
Comment linking /2018/09/do-right-thing.html
on “How Restaurants Got So Loud”Submitted Why kids don't program as a story · 94 points
HN discussionThanks! No, I worked it out for myself while I was thinking about what the exponential of a linear operator is. The explanation at my school was the one with Taylor Series. By the time I got to university it was just taken as a given, so nobody explained it at all. My explanation seems to have attracted a lot of positive votes in a few minutes. I've written a more detailed version here if anyone doesn't get it: http…
Comment linking /2009/10/ei-pi-1.html
on “Why is e^(pi i) = -1?”Submitted Diax's Rake as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThe slacker view: http://johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com/2009/11/horror-of-pro... I wrote this article after people had a go at me for teaching kids to program. The first half doesn't sound like you, so skim it, but the second half might be relevant. Start at the bit where it says "A well paid job that you don't enjoy is a curse". You certainly need to be paid by the hour. The problem at the moment is that you're ri…
Comment linking /2009/11/horror-of-programming.html
on “Ask HN: how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of?”Submitted Music in Pubs: Introspections on what annoys customers. as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can you form Mental Images? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Destroy the World using only Absence of Mind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effortless Superiority as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Venus Williams confounds us as Rationalists as a story · 1 points
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