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Kyle Conroy
Personal blog · kyleconroy.com · on HN as Derfermanprogrammingproductivity
Kyle Conroy's personal blog at kyleconroy.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “What if you had bought Apple stock instead of that iPod?”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its calculation of how much Apple stock would be worth had someone bought shares instead of a Mac in 2003. Commenters point to the numbers themselves.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- What if you had bought Apple stock instead of that iPod?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-25
What Hacker News says?
I switched both my blog [1] and our engineering blog [2] over to Jekyll and couldn't be happier. It's incredibly easy to deploy (we push our blog straight to S3) and working locally is a breeze. [1] http://kyleconroy.com [2] http://twilio.com/engineering
Comment linking /
on “No Framework Needed”Submitted What if you had bought Apple stock instead of that iPod? as a story · 161 points
HN discussionSkip the article and go straight to the numbers: http://www.kyleconroy.com/apple-stock.php
Comment linking /apple-stock.php
on “If You Bought Apple Stock Instead of Products”Submitted The Need for an Open Barcode Database as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://www.kyleconroy.com/2010/04/apple-stock
Comment linking /2010/04/apple-stock
on “How rich would you be if you’d bought Apple shares instead of a Mac in 2003?”Submitted Show HN: Spotify Playlists for Your Favorite Venues as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proposed Python Standard Library Removals Will Break 1 in 30 PyPI Packages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Downloading Your Twitter Data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actually Archiving Your Entire Twitter Account as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blogging on Paper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressively Worse Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating Code Examples as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Website That Never Was as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Analysis of college football data to find circles of parity as a story · 1 points
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