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Rawkes
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Rawkes is a personal blog at rawkes.com about web, programming and games. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “There is something magical about Firefox OS”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rawkes for posts on Twitter sentiment mapping, NoFlo and flow-based programming, and the appeal of Firefox OS for mobile web apps. The comments only cite or link these posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- There is something magical about Firefox OS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-13
- An introduction to NoFlo and flow-based programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-03
- Rawkets Gamepad API demo in Firefox and Chrome2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-14
What Hacker News says?
See also Rob Hawkes’ (from Mozilla) attempts to map Twitter sentiment: http://rawkes.com/blog/2011/04/19/finding-patterns-in-twitte...
Comment linking /blog/2011/04/19/finding-patterns-in-twitter-sentiment
on “Visualizing Hacker News”Submitted There is something magical about Firefox OS as a story · 445 points
HN discussionhttp://www.dsprobotics.com/applications.html https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synt... http://rawkes.com/articles/an-introduction-to-noflo-and-flow... Please. Stop. Typing. How much of your coding is spent on syntax, structure, and scope - jobs that the computer often does much better than you ? What benefit is there in typing out the same loops and so on over and over and making people read yo…
Comment linking /articles/an-introduction-to-noflo-and-flow-based-programming
on “What is “modern” programming?”Submitted ViziCities Dev Diary #1: Visualising Cities in 3D using WebGL as a story · 196 points
HN discussionI'm going to be refining and updating the tech behind it (it's quite old) but I wrote a little more here, at least for the Twitter scraping: http://rawkes.com/articles/how-i-scraped-and-stored-over-3-m... As for the sentiment analysis… I'm unable to release the data-set as it's owned by a university in Florida and only available to students. A quick Google on sentiment analysis, or 'Affective Norms for English Words…
Comment linking /articles/how-i-scraped-and-stored-over-3-million-tweets
on “Monitoring mood in the UK using Twitter”Submitted Recreating Google's Bouncing Balls Logo In HTML5 Canvas as a story · 60 points
HN discussionApple and Google have no incentive to perfect this. They want people writing native apps. This is what excites me about something like Firefox OS ( http://rawkes.com/articles/there-is-something-magical-about-... ) -- Mozilla has the incentive to make mobile apps a first class citizen. If JavaScript/CSS/HTML is "native", then they have no choice but to get it right. Plus, when it comes to standards, Mozilla already h…
Comment linking /articles/there-is-something-magical-about-firefox-os
on “Touch events on the mobile web are unfinished”Submitted An introduction to NoFlo and flow-based programming as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring mood in the UK using Twitter as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a 3D sound visualiser with WebGL and the HTML5 Audio Data API as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted ViziCities: London Underground in 3D, Leap Motion, funding and more as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everybody loves a good snog – Finding sentiment in the UK via Twitter as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The moment Twitter lost Steve Jobs #sentimentanalysis as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Becoming a Mozilla Technical Evangelist as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter sentiment surrounding the Osama Bin Laden events as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rawkets Gamepad API demo in Firefox and Chrome as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some thoughts and advice for public speaking as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create a real-time multiplayer HTML5 game with WebSockets and Node.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gamepad API demo in Firefox and Chrome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anyone remember this awesome use of HTML5? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Node.js from within a Firefox XUL extension as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is something magical about Firefox OS (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted People love a good smooch on a balcony: Monitoring mood in the UK via Twitter as a story · 1 points
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