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Robert Accettura
Personal blog · robert.accettura.com/blogwebprogramming
Robert Accettura's personal blog at robert.accettura.com covers web and programming. Since 2008, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for historical anecdotes, such as Gödel's citizenship exam with Einstein and Morgenstern, and for a post on the MIT License. The comments cite it as a source without judging the writing.
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.
Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech
Most-linked posts?
- /wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Morgenstern_onGoedelcitizenship.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-23
What Hacker News says?
Very off-topic, but long ago when Albert Einstein went for a car ride with Mr. Gödel to become U.S. citizens, Einstein was trying very hard to think of ways to shut him up about a Constitution loophole he discovered. Things didn't go exactly as planned, and in front of the naturalization examiner, Mr. Gödel started blabbing about how he had found a way the U.S could be transformed into a fascist regime... Sources: h…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Morgenstern_onGoedelcitizenship.pdf
on “What Gödel Discovered”Submitted about:internets as a story · 32 points
HN discussion> This reminds me of an anecdote about Goedel, not sure if it's true or not, but here goes. It's true, according to a recounting [1] by Oskar Morgenstern, one of two friends who were present at Gödel's citizenship examination to vouch for his good character (the other was Albert Einstein). [1] https://robert.accettura.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Morg...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Morgenstern_onGoedelcitizenship.pdf
on “The MIT License, Line by Line”Submitted Full SPDY ahead as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Insanely great" is something that Steve Jobs used to say. It became a Mac ad campaign [1] and a book was written with that title [2]; I haven't read it. [1] http://robert.accettura.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/20090... [2] http://www.amazon.com/Insanely-Great-Macintosh-Computer-Ever... and a book I think this phrase is a little piece of computing history. I, for one, would like to see it make a return. I think it…
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on “Build an Insanely Great Web Service”Submitted Firefox Home iPhone app - Adults Only as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technology Is At Its Very Best When It’s Invisible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted BitTorrent For HTTP Failover as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secrets In Websites II as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perception Of Performance. On the new IOS Chrome & Safari. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On H.264 Revisited (Mozilla) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New whitehouse.gov Analysis; uses Akamai, jQuery as a story · 1 points
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