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Richard Kulisz
Personal blog · richardkulisz.blogspot.comprogrammingphilosophy
Richard Kulisz's personal blog at richardkulisz.blogspot.com covers programming and philosophy. Since 2009, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Smalltalk's two-fold failure”. 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 this blog for contrarian essays, such as a rant arguing that design is overrated and a 2007 post arguing that aliens don't exist, which drew debate in the comment threads.
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.
Systems Designer, specializing in Anarchist Democracies.
Most-linked posts?
- Smalltalk's two-fold failure3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-29
- Design Principles vs. Engineering “Principles” (2011)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-30
What Hacker News says?
Fun rant. I wish he defined what exactly he means by design. (Amusing exercise: replace all occurrences of 'design' with 'blub'.) The core of the post for me was: > Stop creating shitty startups that look amazing. A product or service that is indispensably useful yet looks like ass is infinitely more likely to be successful than a product that solves zero problems but looks like a work of art. I'd say sure, in gener…
Comment linking /2011/06/design-principles-vs-engineering.html
on “Design is Horseshit”Submitted Smalltalk's two-fold failure as a story · 15 points
HN discussionMany of your concerns were addressed by the author in the comments section: http://richardkulisz.blogspot.com/2007/04/aliens-dont-exist.... He completely ignores that humans actually took many tens of millions of years to evolve from scratch not from existing life forms. Kulisz responded: The point is that it didn't have to. Nothing in the universe prevented a technological civilization from arising 8 billion years…
Comment linking /2007/04/aliens-dont-exist.html
on “Galaxy has 'billions of Earths'”Submitted Design Principles vs. Engineering “Principles” (2011) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI doubt any have intelligent life though... http://richardkulisz.blogspot.com/2007/04/aliens-dont-exist.... Apologies for Richard Kulisz's more asinine qualities, but I've never seen a convincing refutation of the argument he presents there.
Comment linking /2007/04/aliens-dont-exist.html
on “Galaxy has 'billions of Earths'”Submitted Smalltalk: The Software Industry's Greatest Failure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Any system that can't be understood is a failure. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smalltalk: The Software Industry's Greatest Failure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineers Are an Inferior Form of Life (2011) as a story · 2 points
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