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PythonWise is a personal blog at pythonwise.blogspot.com about programming and career. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Feynman On The Importance Of Playing”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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8HN people?
2011–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2012

If it won't be simple, it simply won't be. [ Hire me , source code ]

Most-linked posts?

  1. Feynman On The Importance Of Playing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-24
  2. Python-based Assembler in Two Days
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-30
  3. The big list of “python -m” tools
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here is a short link - http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-importance-of-play...

    Comment linking /2011/09/on-importance-of-playing.html

    on “Leaving Google”
  2. Submitted Feynman On The Importance Of Playing as a story · 190 points

    HN discussion
  3. I think part of what might be going on here is that OOP patterns incur a large upfront cost in complexity, but the hope is that it will payoff later when it comes to maintaining and extending the code. For example, the visitor pattern he talks about might seem needlessly complex. Why scatter the logic for a recursive tree traversal across several classes when I could do it here, all in this one function? The respons…

    Comment linking /2006/06/visitor-design-pattern.html

    on “My brain can't handle OOP anymore”
  4. Submitted Super Simple Mocking For Python as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  5. You might enjoy http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/2012/06/python-based-assemble... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tebeka/pythonwise/master/a...

    Comment linking /2012/06/python-based-assembler.html

    on “Show HN: An assembler for the LC-3 fictitious computer”
  6. Submitted The big list of “python -m” tools as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Setting Machine Learning On OSX as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Python dictionary: Default value vs. checking for None as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Python -m as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Python-based Assembler in Two Days as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Advice for New Managers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Specifying test cases for Pytest using TOML as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Pythonwise: Simple Object Pools as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Manual Breakpoints in Go as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Want To Be More Productive? - Improve Your I/O as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Using travis-ci with bitbucket as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Making Avro file reading in Python faster than Java as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Use Chat Room to Amplify Your Team as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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