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Philosophy Made Manifest

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Philosophy Made Manifest is a personal blog at philosophymademanifest.blogspot.com about programming and philosophy. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Tips for maintainable metaprogramming”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2009–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2009

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post on metaprogramming, shared in a thread on tips for maintainable metaprogramming. The only comment is about a browser error when opening the page, not the writing.

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.

Systems of thought and thoughts of systems

Most-linked posts?

  1. Tips for maintainable metaprogramming
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-05-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. For the author: this is possibly Opera-specific but I get this error when opening the page: <philosophymademanifest.blogspot.com> [Error: name: ReferenceError message: Statement on line 3: Undefined variable: _gat Backtrace: Line 3 of inline#2 script in http://philosophymademanifest.blogspot.com/2009/05/metaprogr... var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8120690-1"); ]

    Comment linking /2009/05/metaprogramming-still-need-programming.html

    on “Tips for maintainable metaprogramming”
  2. Submitted Curry-Howard for Non-Dummies – Part 1 as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Tips for maintainable metaprogramming as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Captain Kirk Was a Lousy Tech Manager as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Functional programming is not all-or-nothing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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