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Mike Pope
Personal blog · mikepope.com/blogprogramming
Mike Pope writes mike pope's website, a personal blog at mikepope.com about programming. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mike Pope's blog for a 2012 list of nicknames for people from companies and places, such as Microsofties, cited in threads about what firms call their workers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=23543 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-01
What Hacker News says?
Well, they get in the way of the user doing what she wants, of course. But they're a necessary evil, quite firmly entrenched by now (OpenID is subjectively worse even though it might be technically superiour) and they come expected for users these days. Just as you (usually) tell others your name when you call them on the phone, user names and passwords are kind of expected as a way of telling a web site who you are…
Comment linking /blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=480
on “HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks”Not for people who were happily navigating with their keyboard. Not for people who were going to copy/paste anyway. Not for people who wanted to look at something in another tab before finishing your aggressively self-important webform. Not for people who will inevitably accidentally hit something in the dialog before even seeing it because they were typing too fast and it accepted their keyboard input. Not for peop…
Comment linking /blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=480
on “Getting website registration completely wrong”Lest best list I've found so far is pretty light: https://mikepope.com/blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354
Comment linking /blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354
on “Elastic.co lays off 13% of team”Here's a fun list of these from Mike Pope from 2012: https://mikepope.com/blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354 He adds, > Then there is the question of what we might call a nickname like this. A name based on a place is a toponym. A name for people from a city or region is a demonym. I solicited some ideas for this, too. We threw around corporanym and employeeonym. Someone suggested "idionym, which should mean roughly '…
Comment linking /blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354
on “Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You”Ok I really like this question which got me digging and someone made a pretty comprehensive and somewhat verified list: https://mikepope.com/blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354 Personally I would say Microsofties is the worst.
Comment linking /blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354
on “Ask HN: What are the worst names given to employees of specific companies?”Quite a few here: http://mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2354
Comment linking /blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2354
on “Ask HN: I want a list of the labels firms use to refer to their workers”