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Mark Ericksen

Personal blog · brainlid.orgprogramming

Mark Ericksen's personal blog at brainlid.org covers programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Price's Law and Who's Doing the Work”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

The one comment does not discuss this blog's writing. It argues about Amazon's competitors and possible monopoly regulation in a thread on Amazon using seller data.

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Mark Ericksen on the web. A blog of my thoughts, snippets, notes and discoveries.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Price's Law and Who's Doing the Work
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. You forget the other big competitors. Sun pushed OpenOffice to cut MS's profits from Office Google and MS are pushing into the Cloud to reduce Amazon's influence Amazon is creating its own ad network and offering Twitch to reign in Google Walmart is slowly creating its own global online shopping platform to compete with Amazon Should Amazon ever have no competitor, monopoly regulations would kick in. But usually, al…

    Comment linking /general/2017/11/28/price-law.html

    on “Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products”
  2. Submitted Security Scanning Your Phoenix App as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Price's Law and Who's Doing the Work as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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