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Randy Au
Personal blog · counting.substack.comdataprogrammingcareer
Randy Au writes Counting Stuff, a personal blog at counting.substack.com about data, programming and career. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Randy Au's Substack for metaresearch on internet memes, such as the 'measles plane' meme. The linked post is about that meme.
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.
The less sexy (but very important!) side of the data sciences, every Tuesday morning.
Most-linked posts?
- Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-13
- What if you were an evil data scientist?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-22
- It's that Data Science meme plane with dots again2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-23
- Data Cleaning Is Analysis, Not Grunt Work – Counting Stuff2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-15
- Dates, Times, Calendars– The Universal Source of Data Science Trauma2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-18
What Hacker News says?
yes and here's some excellent metaresearch on the "measles plane" https://counting.substack.com/p/its-that-ds-meme-plane-with-...
Comment linking /p/its-that-ds-meme-plane-with-dots
on “Test your product on a crappy laptop”Submitted Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one as a story · 156 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's that Data Science meme plane with dots again as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Science has a tooling problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dates, Times, Calendars– The Universal Source of Data Science Trauma as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if you were an evil data scientist? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if you were an evil data scientist? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Cleaning Is Analysis, Not Grunt Work – Counting Stuff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Cleaning Is Analysis, Not Grunt Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dates, Times, Calendars: The Universal Source of Data Science Trauma (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The mythical single source of truth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sessions for Analysis, the Eternal Fiction as a story · 1 points
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