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Personal blog · blog.absurd.liprogrammingsystems

press play on tape is a personal blog at blog.absurd.li about programming and systems. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2009–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2009

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

Why HN links it

Linked once, as a bare link in a thread on The Duct Tape Programmer, with no comment on the writing. The URL slug suggests a post titled 'On smart boys in programming'.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://blog.absurd.li/2009/09/24/on_smart_boys_in_programmin...

    Comment linking /2009/09/24/on_smart_boys_in_programming.html

    on “The Duct Tape Programmer”
  2. Submitted Http... something as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted One-Way RPC using AMQP as transport and THRIFT for communication as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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