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Jonathan Boutelle

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Jonathan Boutelle's personal blog at jonathanboutelle.com covers startups and programming. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Leading Using Numbers”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2008–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link a 2006 how-to on debugging JavaScript in Internet Explorer, pointing to Microsoft Script Editor as an answer to a request for a Firebug alternative for IE.

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. Leading Using Numbers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Microsoft Script Editor (if you primarily need JavaScript debugging). Unfortunately, it's bundled with MS Office - go figure. http://www.jonathanboutelle.com/mt/archives/2006/01/howto_de...

    Comment linking /mt/archives/2006/01/howto_debug_jav.html

    on “Ask HN: Closest thing to Firebug for IE?”
  2. Submitted Why Amazon Reserved Instances don’t make economic sense for startups as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Leading Using Numbers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted SlideShare: The founders have left the building as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted One question daily SCRUM as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Leading using numbers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Predicting User Behavior in AJAX applications as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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