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pozorvlak.livejournal.com is a personal blog at pozorvlak.livejournal.com about math and programming. Since 2008, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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24mentions?
18HN people?
2008–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's "Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems" post and related Falsehoods lists, mostly as examples of the genre. The comments do not judge the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-01-21
  2. Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-12-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. gambler · 2019-03-18
    Your class will not work without language-level if/else construct or something equivalent. In Samlltalk if/else is implemented purely through message passing. There is no "real" if/else. IIRC, Smalltalk has Boolean class and two subclasses of Boolean: True and False. There is a single method with two arguments (:ifTrue:ifFlase). The method is then overloaded. True calls ifTrue argument. Flase calls ifFalse argument.…

    Comment linking /94558.html

    on “Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003)”
  2. jerf · 2011-01-14

    Submitted "I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems." as a story · 147 points

    HN discussion
  3. bryanrasmussen · 2019-05-30
    I don't know, looking through those they seem to be more another example of the linked article - not classical Falsehoods programmers believe - for example this one https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems - quite a lot of them are really Implementation Decisions of Build Systems Do not cover every need.

    Comment linking /174763.html

    on “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search”
  4. ColinWright · 2017-03-13

    Submitted If-statements in Smalltalk (2008) as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  5. josteink · 2017-02-16
    Ah good old makefiles. This reminds me of this one which I discovered via a recent HN-submission[1]. Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems: http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13637102

    Comment linking /174763.html

    on “Don't remove the $(nop) command below”
  6. saurabh · 2011-09-15

    Submitted Why we should teach our kids to code as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  7. yread · 2014-05-14
    http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en Falsehoods programmers believe about geography http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-ab... Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses http://www.cscyphers.com/blog/2012/06/28/falsehoods-programm... Falsehoods programmers believe about gender http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/06/falsehoods-programmers... Falsehoods programmers belie…

    Comment linking /174763.html

    on “Articles Every Programmer Should Read”
  8. Something1234 · 2018-01-21

    Submitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  9. RiderOfGiraffes · 2009-11-15

    Submitted Flavors of programming ... as a story · 37 points

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  10. thesz · 2011-02-21

    Submitted Simple unit tests within dependent type system as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  11. RiderOfGiraffes · 2011-02-13

    Submitted Unit testing Agda code with elisp as a story · 13 points

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  12. nickb · 2008-06-02

    Submitted Counting in hexadecimal on your fingers as a story · 12 points

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  13. antiform · 2008-04-28

    Submitted Why I Like Perl as a story · 12 points

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  14. RiderOfGiraffes · 2010-05-02

    Submitted Big-O notation for beginners as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  15. AndrewDucker · 2012-09-09

    Submitted Heterogeneous parallel programming - an explanation for laypeople as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. ColinWright · 2011-10-19

    Submitted On (not) sucking at my job, and why compilers are hard as a story · 4 points

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  17. swyx · 2020-10-12

    Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems as a story · 3 points

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  18. ColinWright · 2012-12-06

    Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. danohuiginn · 2011-01-12

    Submitted Djb redo: the Git of build systems? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. ColinWright · 2020-04-26

    Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. wamatt · 2013-01-29

    Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems as a story · 2 points

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  22. swah · 2011-03-31

    Submitted Building a queue with two stacks as a story · 2 points

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  23. motxilo · 2011-01-13

    Submitted Big-O notation for beginners as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. ColinWright · 2011-08-03

    Submitted Complex numbers made straightforward as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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