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Nikolaos Dimopoulos

Personal blog · niden.net · on HN as nidennetprogrammingsystems

Nikolaos Dimopoulos's personal blog at niden.net covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link these posts for the early history of AngularJS, including its origins in the GetAngular service, and for a 2010 review of switching from iPhone to a Nexus One. No comment judges 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.

Personal blog of Nikolaos (Nikos) Dimopoulos. Boldly goes where no other coder has gone before.... and other ramblings

The author on HN?

nidennet · 125 karma · member since 2011

Software Analyst/Designer, father of two. Always interested about new technology, how to make servers perform faster, how to push applications to the limit :) Blog: http://niden.net Twitter: @nikosdimopoulos

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Interestingly enough this is a very similar business model to GetAngular, where AngularJS originated, a few years ago. http://web.archive.org/web/20100413141437/http://getangular.... More details: http://www.niden.net/2009/12/world-with-part-1-reviewhow-to....

    Comment linking /2009/12/world-with-part-1-reviewhow-to.html

    on “Hoodie – Fast web app development”
  2. Submitted Google Apps and Google Accounts merge as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. 1. Angular is maintained by Google, but it was not created there. 2. Getangular was an online JSON storage service where Misko worked. AngularJS was announced on getangular.com (which was a product, not a project), and copyrighted Angular / BRAT Tech. LLC. getangular's website: http://web.archive.org/web/20100413141437/http://getangular.... http://misko.hevery.com/2009/09/28/hello-world-angular-is-he... (original an…

    Comment linking /2009/12/world-with-part-1-reviewhow-to.html

    on “Comparing Ember and Angular”
  4. Submitted How To: Subversion Backup as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. OT: Rant Xcode being loaded on my computer causes something akin to a kernel panic. Not the fun kind where you get to read a backtrace and feel something. The existential kind. Every time it hijacks a .json or .xml file association, I experience a rage that hasn't been matched since the Emacs/vi wars ... and at least those were about editors that could open in under a geological epoch. I just want to look at a text…

    Comment linking /post/gentoo-stage-1-installation

    on “Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding”
  6. Submitted My Android 2.2 Review (Installation and impressions) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. I had a similar choice to make a few months back and I chose to go with Android (and so did my wife) from the iPhone (outline here: http://www.niden.net/2010/02/from-iphone-to-nexus-one-review... ) I have learned that if I am always going to wait for the 'new' to arrive I will not enjoy what is here. Therefore I bought a Nexus One and am enjoying it now. If something new comes out next year, then I will think about…

    Comment linking /2010/02/from-iphone-to-nexus-one-review/

    on “Ask HN: iPhone 4 or hold out for an Android phone?”
  8. Submitted Downgrading PHPUnit from 3.6 to 3.5 [PHPUnit][Linux][HowTo] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Change the encoding of a MySQL database to UTF8 [How-To][PHP] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Fast serialization of data in PHP [PHP][Metrics] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Git pre-commit - Another check to ensure clean code [How-To][PHP] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted LibreOffice auto update [Blog Post] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Building a HA Cluster on Linode [Blog Post][Series] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Slicehost vs. Linode [Blog Post] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Additional storage for Google Apps users [Blog post] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How To: Create an inexpensive hourly remote backup as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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