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Romain Goyet

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Romain Goyet writes Hello, world!, a personal blog at romain.goyet.com about programming and economics. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A free shipping mystery”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link these posts as sources on shipping a $0.03 item from China and on running Swift code on Android. The comments cite them 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A free shipping mystery
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-10-05
  2. Running Swift code on Android
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. Remembers me of http://romain.goyet.com/articles/free_shipping_from_china/ Where the author wonders how a single button, costing less than 5 dollars, can have free shipping from china to france.

    Comment linking /articles/free_shipping_from_china/

    on ““Free” shipping is not actually free”
  2. Submitted A free shipping mystery as a story · 410 points

    HN discussion
  3. Swift on Android has been done already, by multiple independent groups: http://arctouch.com/2014/10/swift-make-android-app/ http://romain.goyet.com/articles/running_swift_code_on_andro... It's not exactly easy though, and I doubt that a single WORA language will ever become the preferred way to do mobile development. (It already exists, anyway, in the form of Xamarin. Neither Xamarin or Java on the desktop became al…

    Comment linking /articles/running_swift_code_on_android/

    on “Swift available for Beaglebone/RasPi”
  4. Submitted Running Swift code on Android as a story · 196 points

    HN discussion
  5. I've written a blog post on that very subject. Turns out you can have a $0.03 item mailed to you, including shipping, from China! http://romain.goyet.com/articles/free_shipping_from_china/

    Comment linking /articles/free_shipping_from_china/

    on “Show HN: 1dollarthings.com – an internet dollar store”
  6. Submitted Free shipping from China as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion

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