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Kenneth Ballenegger
Personal blog · kswizz.comprogrammingstartups
Kenneth Ballenegger's personal blog at kswizz.com covers programming and startups. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The Incredible Hypocrisy of Modern Citizens”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on sexism, where the commenter points to a linked post on hypocrisy as an example of the author's arguments. The posts cover sexism and hypocrisy, including Facebook's page categories.
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.
Archived blog of Kenneth Ballenegger: essays on engineering and startups, and travel photography, written between 2010 and 2015. No longer updated.
Most-linked posts?
- The Incredible Hypocrisy of Modern Citizens2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-31
What Hacker News says?
Besides the incredibly aggravating link-bait title—frugal is not equivalent to cheap. I consider myself to be quite frugal, but for the stuff that I do own, I have no objection to spending extra for the quality, luxury version—I couldn't agree more with the post's message. I try to live my life in the most minimalistic fashion (see my apartment[1]), and am constantly looking to throw away things that add no value to…
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on “Being Frugal Makes You A Loser”Submitted I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me) as a story · 250 points
HN discussionI once tried an insane thing: building the Y-Combinator in C, and wrote a blog post about it. http://kswizz.com/post/50429268286/fibonacci-the-y-combinato... It was a fun thought exercise. Not something I'd use in production code.
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on “The Y Combinator (no, not that one) – A Crash Course on Lambda Calculus”Submitted Show HN: My WWDC-inspired project. A Markdown editor for Lion as a story · 75 points
HN discussionIn order to be a respected author and build a personality online, I think we'd all be much better off taking the time and care to build our own personal theme and identity. Our blogs are our online identities. Using something like Svbtle take all the personality and brand recognition out of it. For me, I designed my own blog around my personal tastes in minimalism, and the way I want to brand myself: http://kswizz.c…
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on “Svbtle Funding”Submitted The App Store, 3 years later: Apple just doesn't care. as a story · 73 points
HN discussionWhen I learnt about this in design school, I went ahead and created a quick and dirty web app that'd construct the canon for me, instead of having to draw a bunch of geometry on paper. Here are the links to [1] the app, [2] the blog post, and [3] the source code. [1]: http://vandegraaf.azuretalon.com/ [2]: http://kswizz.com/post/3024765786/van-de-graaf [3]: https://github.com/kballenegger/Van-De-Graaf-Generator
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on “The Secret Law of Page Harmony”Submitted Sexism as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThanks, much appreciated. As an aside, I just posted about my redesign and my motivations behind it: http://kswizz.com/post/20668660473/redesign
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on “The App Store, 3 years later: Apple just doesn't care.”Submitted Report on iAd as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI once contrived a Y-Combinator-backed and memoized implementation of fib() in pure C (with the blocks extension for real closures). It was a mess, but it was pretty cool: http://kswizz.com/post/50429268286/fibonacci-the-y-combinato...
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on “Lazy Ruby”Submitted This is why I don't believe in remote workers as a story · 14 points
HN discussionWhat an ignorant fool. This article doesn’t say much (except that sexism is super awesome which I don’t think deserves a response) but the one he linked to (about hypocrisy) is incredibly bad ( http://kswizz.com/post/8275502957/hypocrisy ). Facebook has very liberal fields for all kinds of stuff. It’s no problem to say that you believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster (9,573 fans) or Russel’s Teapot (86 fans). Like J…
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on “Sexism”Submitted I have the best job in the world as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to fix the US economy in one week* as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci & the Y Combinator in C as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Doesn't Care: looking back at App Store issues, 3 years later as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted WWDC tickets -- how to solve the supply & demand issue? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're really nice, so why can't we be nice to our guests? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Incredible Hypocrisy of Modern Citizens as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Having Two Months Of Your Digital Life Wiped, Then Restored Thanks To The Cloud as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A critique of the Apple indie developer community as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Creativity and Resourcefulness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Someone Directly Affected Comments on Immigration in the context of the Valley as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ken's Proposed Solution to the App Review Situation as a story · 2 points
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