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Mathias Mikkelsen
Personal blog · mathiasmikkelsen.comstartupsprogramming
Mathias Mikkelsen's personal blog at mathiasmikkelsen.com covers startups and programming. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Amazing Facts About Facebook And Breakups”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mathias Mikkelsen's blog as the original source for posts on tech-industry history, such as the iPhone's early limits and Nokia, and for a 2010 analysis of Facebook status-update breakup patterns.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mathias Mikkelsen makes software and the companies around it.
Most-linked posts?
- Amazing Facts About Facebook And Breakups4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-11-02
What Hacker News says?
I wish I could find the original article, it was a link from a link from the bibliography of Chip War. I think it was things like how you couldn't initially purchase music, and had to sync to iTunes to do that. I think there was more. I did find this article, on iPhone being basically just a battery: https://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2011/05/blackberry-makers-thoug...
Comment linking /2011/05/blackberry-makers-thought-the-original-iphone-was-impossible-to-make/
on “Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]”Submitted Amazing Facts About Facebook And Breakups as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> This happens repeatedly: Apple is very good at choosing the right time to enter a market -- hitting it when it hits primetime -- and then they get credit for creating the market. I I know. Remember when Microsoft started the tablet market in 2003 and then Apple comes along 7 years later and steals credit for tablets! Psh! And remember when Apple got credit for smartphones when all they did was enter the market tha…
Comment linking /2011/05/blackberry-makers-thought-the-original-iphone-was-impossible-to-make/
on “Apple Working with American Express on iPhone 6 Mobile Payments”original post: http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-face... although still no y-axis :(
Comment linking /2010/10/amazing-facts-about-facebook-and-breakups/
on “Data-mining 10,000 Facebook status updates to graph breakup patterns”The original source (well, not quite, but I can't find a link to the actual source) has an even better copy: http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-face...
Comment linking /2010/10/amazing-facts-about-facebook-and-breakups/
on “Facebook knows when you'll break up”Originally posted here: http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-face... What are the rules re: reposts of vias?
Comment linking /2010/10/amazing-facts-about-facebook-and-breakups/
on “Facebook knows when you'll break up”