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Kurt Grandis

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Kurt Grandis's personal blog at kurtgrandis.com covers programming and career. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Productivity Showdown: Python/Django vs C#/ASP.NET”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's 2010 post comparing Python/Django with C#/ASP.NET when discussing web stack choice for startups. The comments cite it as support and do not evaluate its writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Productivity Showdown: Python/Django vs C#/ASP.NET
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-02-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. The presenter's personal site: http://kurtgrandis.com/blog/

    Comment linking /blog/

    on “Militarizing your backyard with Python, Arduino, and computer vision.”
  2. Submitted Productivity Showdown: Python/Django vs C#/ASP.NET as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  3. As a Django user, I have noticed a few comments on here and elsewhere where people have switched away from ASP and moved to Django, and seemed pleased with that choice. http://kurtgrandis.com/blog/2010/02/24/python-django-vs-c-as...

    Comment linking /blog/2010/02/24/python-django-vs-c-asp-net-productivity-showdown/

    on “Ask HN: Starting a web project in 2015. What stack to use?”
  4. Stackoverflow's answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/341993/is-django-developm... A technical manager's comparison: http://kurtgrandis.com/blog/2010/02/24/python-django-vs-c-as... Python/Django wins! I've also heard anecdotal evidence of a .Net killing a person's startups because of the difficulty of development. I was trained in Python/Django and am now working in ASP.NET/C#. I've opened my mind to it, and ca…

    Comment linking /blog/2010/02/24/python-django-vs-c-asp-net-productivity-showdown/

    on “Ask HN: Could the back-end language influence the success of a Web startup?”

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