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Orestis Markou

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Orestis Markou writes Software Deviser, a personal blog at orestis.gr about programming and career. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Why I bill hourly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
9HN people?
2008–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link these posts for a Clojure REPL approach to incremental automation and to a newer release of PySmell, a Python intellisense tool. The comments only point to the posts and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A blog by Orestis Markou

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why I bill hourly
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-07
  2. Live-debugging an Elixir memory/process leak
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. orestis · 2019-07-22
    I like the checklist nature of this. I approached this problem from another side, which involved a very powerful REPL, but lacked the structure this shows: https://orestis.gr/clojure-unlocking-incremental-automation/

    Comment linking /clojure-unlocking-incremental-automation/

    on “Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation”
  2. cwan · 2010-11-07

    Submitted Why I bill hourly as a story · 229 points

    HN discussion
  3. a235 · 2011-12-05
    Hey, there is a much fresher version of pysmell: http://orestis.gr/blog/2009/01/16/pysmell-v073-released/ and it is hosted on code.google rather then git: http://code.google.com/p/pysmell/

    Comment linking /blog/2009/01/16/pysmell-v073-released/

    on “PySmell - intellisense for python”
  4. brucehauman · 2017-12-29

    Submitted 25 days of Clojure as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  5. JayInt · 2011-12-05

    Submitted PySmell - intellisense for python as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  6. nitsua · 2013-07-01

    Submitted Why I Bill Hourly as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. orestis · 2018-01-02

    Submitted Live-debugging an Elixir memory leak as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. andrewshatnyy · 2017-12-31

    Submitted Live-debugging an Elixir memory/process leak as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. JesseAldridge · 2008-10-31

    Submitted Towards Headless IDEs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. orestis · 2016-11-10

    Submitted Web development needs qualifiers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. orestis · 2010-11-10

    Submitted Billing hourly - a followup. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. gtani · 2008-09-01

    Submitted Python's compiler module, AST's, auto-complete, as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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