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Matt Harrison
Personal blog · hairysun.com/blogprogrammingwriting
Matt Harrison's personal blog at hairysun.com covers programming and writing. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Amazon's Book Piracy Problem”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a source on Amazon's book piracy and counterfeit inventory problem, and once as a link to the post itself. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Matt Harrison's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Amazon's Book Piracy Problem6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-06-30
- /blog/2013/04/02/oh-ergonomic-keyboard/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-29
What Hacker News says?
@dang Can we please replace the URL with the actual one, rather than a tweet pointing to it? https://hairysun.com/amazons-book-piracy-problem.html
Comment linking /amazons-book-piracy-problem.html
on “Amazon has a book piracy problem”Submitted Amazon's Book Piracy Problem as a story · 77 points
HN discussionA couple thoughts. I've had an ErgoDox for almost 9 years. I wrote my thoughts after a year here [0]. I use the Norman layout which I'm generally pleased with but don't know if the finger travel buys you that much. More important to me had been leveraging both thumbs to hit commonly used keys and modifiers. In the last week, I was made aware of the miryoku layout and made a Norman version. (Prior to COVID-19, I trav…
Comment linking /revisiting-the-ergodox.html
on “ErgodoxE EZ – an ergonomic keyboard with open source firmware”Submitted Amazon's Book Piracy Problem as a story · 13 points
HN discussionLocation: US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No I'm a corporate trainer, looking to up the skills of your devs and engineers. If you want better Python or Data Science skills, consider hiring me to upskill your team. (Cheaper than hiring). I've done that at Large Streaming companies, Space agencies, Chip manufacturers, Energy corps, Universities, and startups. I've written many books on Python and Data Science, and…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)”Submitted Show HN: Effective Pandas – Book on writing maintainable Pandas code as a story · 8 points
HN discussionYeah, if you have thumb clusters I definitely recommend putting modifiers on them. The thumb is one of the strongest digits, yet most only use them (or one of them!) to press a single key, the spacebar. What a waste. On my ergodox the two big thumb keys on the left are control (escape when tapped) and alt. I don't use the other thumb keys as they aren't comfortable to type. The two right thumb keys are space and ent…
Comment linking /revisiting-the-ergodox.html
on “Using foot pedals for modifier keys in Linux (2014)”Submitted Coding is a Life Skill as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs an owner of the ergodox, I appreciate the efforts and iteration here. Sadly, the ergonomics of most non-split keyboards are hardcoded to a magic number. With the ergodox, I currently have the halves about a foot apart and really enjoy typing that way. (I have also "tented" the halves in the past). I agree that the ergodox is not perfect and the thumb clusters could be improved, I'm just not sold that the butterfl…
Comment linking /blog/2013/04/02/oh-ergonomic-keyboard/
on “DataHand”Submitted Amazon's Book Piracy Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussion(Author of said bug and ratiotile layout, and battery widget). Nope, not ideal, but I've been using qtile with multiple monitors for 3+ years now. Restarting qtile isn't that bad though because you don't lose your windows, just the layout of them. And because I have my most common layout first, it turns out not to bug me. For me it just feels right[0], even with its warts. I'm glad Tycho and others are pushing it fo…
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on “Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM”Submitted Kickstarter for Python and Data Science Screencasts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've blogged a bit about what I want in a keyboard [0]. What I'm currently missing is chorded keys for symbols. (ie having them on the home row with a modifier key). I think that would actually help programmers. The problem is is that my Python specific symbols layer is going go be less than optimal for a C/Java/... programmer. 0- http://hairysun.com/blog/2013/04/02/oh-ergonomic-keyboard/
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on “A Real Keyboard for Programmers?”Submitted Python Decorators Cheatsheet (plus link to its kindle book) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I'm not buying anything off it until I've deeply reviewed what I'm about to buy. <...> and even then you might get a fake from due to commingled inventory. Even for books ([1], [2], [3]). 1. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6920552... 2. https://twitter.com/burkov/status/1369096357252849664 3. https://hairysun.com/amazons-book-piracy-problem.html
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on “Why Alexa won't wake up when she hears her name in ads (2019)”Submitted Amazon's Book Piracy Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is the best free course? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ancillary benefits of writing yet another Python book as a story · 1 points
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