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Personal blog · blog.preinheimer.comprogrammingweb

<?paul is a personal blog at blog.preinheimer.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2009–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this personal blog for posts on colocating a first server, a Comcast technician's late-visit experiences, and sending money internationally via XE. Comments do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I blogged about my own experience with this here: http://blog.preinheimer.com/index.php?/archives/413-Buying-a...

    Comment linking /index.php?/archives/413-Buying-a-Zoo-server.html

    on “How to colocate your first server at a datacenter”
  2. Submitted Memcache-stored Sessions: How it works (behind-scenes) with PHP as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Random things that made me late: - Being double booked in the first place (clearly) - Customer has yet to unbox their computer. - Customer had so much crap installed that simply rebooting took literally 10+ minutes. - Buildings with slow elevators. - Having to park 4 blocks away I blogged another story here: http://blog.preinheimer.com/index.php?/archives/417-My-20-Ti...

    Comment linking /index.php?/archives/417-My-20-Tip.html

    on “Comcast Confessions: why the cable guy is always late”
  4. Submitted Assessing a site as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. We've also had tremendous success with XE. Cheaper (lower fees + better exchange rate) than the bank, I can do it all online. I've blogged about our experience here: http://blog.preinheimer.com/index.php?/archives/418-Paying-a...

    Comment linking /index.php?/archives/418-Paying-across-borders.html

    on “Ask HN: How do you transfer money internationally?”

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