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Lukas Smith
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Lukas Smith writes The Particular Finest, a personal blog at blog.aurynn.com about programming and career. Since 2012, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Contempt Culture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-09, and you can follow it by feed.
The latest entries posted on The Particular Finest
Most-linked posts?
- Contempt Culture16 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2018-11-08
- Contempt Culture8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-12-16
- Contempt Culture (2015)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-02-09
- Contempt Culture4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-05-23
What Hacker News says?
So what technologies do you actually like for writing web servers? I think this comment is a good example of "contempt culture," which we've probably all been guilty of, and which we should do less. http://blog.aurynn.com/86/contempt-culture
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on “TrendMicro Node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands”Submitted Contempt Culture (2015) as a story · 54 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/?utm_sou...
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on “Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?”Submitted Contempt Culture (2015) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture
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on “ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts”Submitted Contempt Culture as a story · 24 points
HN discussionArtifacts of the toxic "contempt culture" historically endemic to hacker culture. https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/
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on “The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)”Submitted Contempt Culture (2015) as a story · 23 points
HN discussion> It is hard to have empathy for a problem you don't have. I do not find this myself, and it is a standard part of the design of a lot of commercial software: intentionally thinking about disabilities, impairments, and difficulties, and working on accommodating people who struggle with these things. Examples: * GUIs that flash the screen to signify a bell sounding for deaf users. * Keyboard-operated GUIs for users w…
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on “Rhombus Language”Submitted Contempt Culture as a story · 19 points
HN discussion> As an added bonus, those casts will fend off the occasional frontend developer who accidentally wanders into the codebase. https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture Code that intentionally celebrates its unapproachability is not a badge of honor or pride, even as a joke. It might occasionally be an unavoidable necessity, in which case it needs enough documentation that the next person who has to deal wit…
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on “Fast Directory Listing on Linux”Submitted That PHP Graph as a story · 14 points
HN discussion> I don't like how web people tend to not know anything not web This is the reason why your responses have been so arrogant. This is why you assumed I lacked knowledge about sandboxing before we'd even had a chance to discuss the topic in any sort of depth. You have this preconceived notion that all web developers are myopic and can't see anything outside of the web, and you've projected this stereotype onto me as i…
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on “Things engineers believe about Web development”Submitted Contempt Culture as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI agree with the general sentiment of your comment and I think there are several factors at play here. * The human brain is not capable of evaluating and re-evaluating every possible option amongst the plethora of technical choices developers are faced with. This forces us to develop certain coarse grained mental heuristics (prejudices and biases) to navigate technology, and even if these broad generalizations are r…
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on “OOP is not that bad”Submitted Contempt Culture as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRelated: http://blog.aurynn.com/contempt-culture-2
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on “Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems (2015)”Submitted Contempt Culture as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture ^^ Someone recently shared this article with me. Really made me think about my interaction with programmers using other languages.
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on “PHP: A fractal of bad design (2012)”Submitted The That Guy Effect as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIs this it? https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/ . There are several HN threads discussing this post over the years.
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on “Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture”Submitted There Is No Meritocracy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is the best example of “contempt culture” [0] that I think I have ever read. Sheesh, what a piece of work. [0] https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture
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on “The Great Deshittification”Submitted Contempt culture as a story · 3 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Ethical Difficulty of Supporting Android as a story · 3 points
HN discussion- xd · 2021-08-09
Submitted Contempt Culture (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted Contempt Culture (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contempt Culture (2015) as a story · 2 points
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