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Piece of mine is a personal blog at kuomarc.wordpress.com about programming and math. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “The (Un)common Lisp approach to Operations Research”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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14mentions?
6HN people?
2012–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2012

Marc's musings

Most-linked posts?

  1. The (Un)common Lisp approach to Operations Research
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-05
  2. The (Un)common Lisp Approach to Operations Research
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-16
  3. Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. It's that feeling of being in the zone, completely forgetting about tomorrow's worries. But how does one raise awareness of being in the zone? It is that consciousness that I believe is paramount. Training your consciousness by playing sports vs sitting in lotus is analogous to training your biceps by rowing vs biceps curls. The latter is more targeted, hence more effective. When you do what you love and you complet…

    Comment linking /2012/03/28/tai-chi-in-pursuit-of-happiness/

    on “If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This”
  2. Submitted Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012) as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  3. In case anyone might find it helpful to have another example: I wrote a similar post a couple years ago: https://kuomarc.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/12-steps-to-build-a...

    Comment linking /2012/05/13/12-steps-to-build-and-deploy-common-lisp-in-the-cloud-and-comparing-rails/

    on “Lisp for the Web, Part III”
  4. Submitted Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  5. I wrote an old (and verbose) blog [1] about why I think Lisp is very suitable for heavy science – in my case Operations Research. In fact, the algorithm powering routific.com is written in it. The key point is that if you were to map out different languages along the abstraction level, Lisp sits right in between the realms of low-level programming (e.g. Java) and modelling (e.g. Matlab). [2] EDIT: added link to the…

    Comment linking /2012/03/05/the-uncommon-lisp-approach-to-operations-research/

    on “MatLisp: A library for scientific computation in Common Lisp”
  6. Submitted How To Build And Deploy Common Lisp In The Cloud (And Comparing Rails) as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Top Hackers, we need you for Operations Research as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java, part II – code examples as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The (Un)common Lisp approach to Operations Research as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The (Un)common Lisp approach to Operations Research as a story · 4 points

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  11. Submitted The (Un)common Lisp Approach to Operations Research as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Pics from Barcelona — General Strike’s collateral of stupidity as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted The insatiable force of Curiosity as a story · 1 points

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