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Patrick Rhone
Personal blog · minimalmac.comhardwareproductivity
Patrick Rhone writes Tumblr, a personal blog at minimalmac.com about hardware and productivity. Since 2009, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Patrick Rhone's Minimal Mac blog is linked for posts about Macs and Apple software, including a guide to TextEdit's capabilities and a picture-based post on Japan's electronics industry.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
Minimal Mac just ran a picture yesterday that does indeed say it all: http://minimalmac.com/post/48088436702/yep-pretty-much-sums-... BTW, I kept looking at the first picture and wondering how many people were employed making all those devices versus those now making the components for the iPhone.
Comment linking /post/48088436702/yep-pretty-much-sums-it-up-via-w-cie
on “What happened to Japan's electronic giants?”Submitted TV is broken as a story · 635 points
HN discussionTextEdit not only tackles *.txt files as the author implies. In fact, TextEdit is far more powerful than some people think. Read this post at MinimalMac for some insights: http://minimalmac.com/post/150121510/textedit-heres-the-thin...
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on “Looking at Different Writing Tools for Macs”Submitted Airplane Mode as a story · 249 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft’s Biggest Miss as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steve Jobs capped many of the teams in Cupertino as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disruptive as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing it Wrong. as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are You Waiting For? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Best Upgrade Is You as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tale of Two Cryptographically Signed OSes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Apple Sells as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted People just wanted great photos and the iPhone 5S delivered that as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Awesome interface for resizing multiple sizes of text in OS X as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Want not, waste not. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "What if" Myth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Season of Stuff as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Minimal Mac Experience as a story · 1 points
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