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Personal blog · mikhanov.com · on HN as smikhanovprogramming

mikhanov.com is a personal blog at mikhanov.com about programming. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “A love letter to Java”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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20mentions?
3HN people?
2009–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

The author on HN?

smikhanov · 1,958 karma · member since 2008

My name is Sergey My blog: http://www.mikhanov.com My Twitter account: http://twitter.com/i_am_neuron Feel free to get in touch with me about anything (I live in London): http://www.mikhanov.com/contact

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Most-linked posts?

  1. A love letter to Java
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-08
  2. Self-learning is overrated (in programming)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. My theory is that productivity hits are much smaller than we developers tend to think (as awful as it sounds). I elaborate more on that in http://www.mikhanov.com/2015/06/08/open-plan-offices-creativ...

    Comment linking /2015/06/08/open-plan-offices-creativity-and-programming-429

    on “Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques”
  2. Submitted Self-learning is overrated (in programming) as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  3. Because Java-only solution to a complicated problem is normally simpler. Few reasons contribute to that. One of them is exhaustive pure Java library ecosystem, which means that it's very unlikely that you'll run into intricacies of native library access on your host system. Another is excellent tooling, which means that when all your processes are Java processes, lots of operations-related tasks (process management…

    Comment linking /2014/03/31/a-love-letter-to-java-363

    on “An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 2”
  4. Submitted Why I don't believe in software architects as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  5. The employer's financial cost of the lost productivity of an average developer in an open space office is much lower than developers like to think, and much, much lower than the cost of the office with private rooms. By placing people in the open space, companies pay almost three times less in office rental costs ( https://www.mikhanov.com/2015/06/08/open-plan-offices-creati... ). In other words, unless you're Sebas…

    Comment linking /2015/06/08/open-plan-offices-creativity-and-programming-429

    on “Let me take you through my dream office”
  6. Submitted So you’re moving to London as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A love letter to Java as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A love letter to Java (2014) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How I learned to program as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Open-plan offices, creativity and programming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Learning to stick with the good as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Metaphors of software as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Open-plan offices, creativity and programming as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The world’s most complicated software as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Self-learning is overrated (in programming) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted On the difficulty of thinking big as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Objective: Get Real as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Logging is the new commenting as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted If you could have infinite coding speed, what project would you work on? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted The real reason behind Apple's restrictive AppStore policy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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