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Paul Tagliamonte

Personal blog · blog.pault.agsystemsprogramming

Paul Tagliamonte writes Tumblr, a personal blog at blog.pault.ag about systems and programming. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Ubuntu: The Community”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
9HN people?
2011–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on Mark Shuttleworth's post saying Canonical leads Ubuntu. The one comment uses it to explain that the post answers Ubuntu contributors leaving the project, and cites an earlier post by another author.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ubuntu: The Community
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. Flimm · 2013-03-09
    This is actually a response to some Ubuntu contributors very publicly leaving the project, and not to criticism from users. This is the blog post that started it off: http://doctormo.org/2013/03/06/ubuntu-membership-2/ And here some the many responses in the past two days (remember, these are Ubuntu members, not random users), many of them agree that there's something wrong with the Ubuntu community of contributors:…

    Comment linking /post/44821301540/ubuntu-the-community

    on “Mark Shuttleworth: Canonical leads Ubuntu, not 'your whims'”
  2. pabs3 · 2021-11-24

    Submitted Be careful when using vxlan as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. luu · 2014-08-16

    Submitted Apple and Debian: A tragic love story as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. copyninja · 2013-03-08

    Submitted Ubuntu: The Community as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. vgnet · 2012-04-14

    Submitted Pyutf (or, as it’s known on my machine - ☃�.py) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. pythonist · 2012-10-11

    Submitted Stuff that’s bothering me about Ubuntu right now as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. jrgifford · 2012-01-12

    Submitted Json / vim love as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. sagarun · 2011-05-09

    Submitted Why i am bit disappointed with canonical? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. joelhaus · 2011-02-02

    Submitted An interesting view on ISP download caps in Canada as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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