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Pete Brown
Personal blog · 10rem.net/blogprogrammingweb
Pete Brown's personal blog at 10rem.net covers programming and web. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Pete Brown blog for a 2008 post on the floppy disk save icon. The comment cites it as an earlier writeup on the topic of old icons that no longer make sense.
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.
Pete Brown's site and blog: Windows 8 XAML, Silverlight, WPF, WinRT, Microcontroller and .NET Micro Framework programming and more.
What Hacker News says?
Coincidence. We had been tweeting about this a few days ago and many of the ideas were from my followers. Then my coworker Pete showed me his 2008 post on the topic http://10rem.net/blog/2008/11/18/when-will-the-floppy-disk-d... and later after I wrote it, the StackOverflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019573/save-icon-still-a...
Comment linking /blog/2008/11/18/when-will-the-floppy-disk-die-as-a-save-icon
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