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Richard Farrar

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Richard Farrar's personal blog at richardfarrar.com covers programming and culture. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Plato and Object Oriented Programming”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2015–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

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Why HN links it

Posts on Google Nexus 5x and 6P phones and a song capacity calculator that estimates how many hours of music fit in a given storage size. The comment uses the calculator to question how much music people need to carry.

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A personal blog about Life, Technology and Everything, with an emphasis on Technology and Podcasting.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Plato and Object Oriented Programming
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Let me ask you a question - how long would it take you to listen to 68 GB or 128 GB of music? My hypothesis is, you don't actually need 68 GB of music around with you. In fact, it doesn't confer any meaningful advnatages. Using http://www.richardfarrar.com/song-capacity-calculator-for-mp... , I can see that 64 GB of music at 256 KBps is around 559 hours of music - I really doubt you'd listen to any meaningful portio…

    Comment linking /song-capacity-calculator-for-mp3-players/

    on “Google Nexus 5x and 6P”
  2. Submitted Plato and Object Oriented Programming (2010) as a story · 10 points

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  3. Submitted Plato and Object Oriented Programming as a story · 1 points

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  4. Submitted Plato and Object Oriented Programming as a story · 1 points

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