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point7 is a personal blog at point7.wordpress.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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2011–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Emlyn's blog for technical write-ups, including a detailed post on App Engine's new billing system and tuning, and a post on the experience of using Windows 8.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. It occurs to me that I don’t even know how to find a command prompt in this environment. The author was able to install Ubuntu and use its package manager to find utilities, but was not able to hit the start key on Windows and type "Command". There's a follow up post too, where he complains that installing Eclipse is... well, exactly the same as installing it on every other version of Windows. His major complaint se…

    Comment linking /2012/11/04/ermahgerd-jerver/

    on “Windows 8 Madness”
  2. Submitted Windows 8 Madness as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  3. kristianp · 2011-09-06Recommends
    Awesome write up of the new billing system. New post with some changes: http://point7.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/appengine-tuning-1/

    Comment linking /2011/09/04/appengine-tuning-1/

    on “The Amazing Story Of Appengine And The Two Orders Of Magnitude”
  4. Submitted AppEngine Tuning - Schlemiel, you're fired « point7 as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Amazing Story Of Appengine And The Two Orders Of Magnitude as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Rudimentary GooglePlus API as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Google+, the pseudonym banstick, and the netizen cultural schism. as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted AppEngine Tuning – An instance of success? « point7 as a story · 1 points

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