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Russ Nelson
Personal blog · blog.russnelson.comeconomicspolitics
Russ Nelson's personal blog at blog.russnelson.com covers economics and politics. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads on chorded keyboards and minimum-wage economics. Commenters cite the posts as support or dispute Eric S. Raymond's claims rather than judging the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /economics/blacks-are-lazy.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-19
What Hacker News says?
It's pretty well known stuff in the Free Open Source Software Dramatic Political Soap Opera Scene, since he always tries so hard to get attention by writing outrageous bullshit on his blog and throwing tantrums on mailing lists, like this: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-Februa... Rational Wiki has some pretty extensive stuff about him: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond And then of c…
Comment linking /politics/tolerating-intolerance.html
on “Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? ”Submitted Russ Nelson on Speculation WRT PG's "Mind the Gap" Essay as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRather disturbing, yet perfectly typical. One good example of the problem with his "technical" works and his lack of actual experience with the things he likes to talk about so much, is that he makes and promotes outrageously incorrect claims like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus's_Law "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." When in fact: Given ANY number of eye, "all" bugs are NOT shallow. Some bugs are…
Comment linking /economics/blacks-are-lazy.html
on “Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? ”I'm a bit confused about what you're trying to achieve here. Out of curiosity I just headed over to ESR's blog. The thing that stands out most is that 95% of the commenters there are uninformed nutcases (and I mean this literally). On the other hand you seem to cherry pick some incidents and exaggerate/misrepresent the facts. Today is the first time ever that I've heard the claim that "thug" has the "n-word" connota…
Comment linking /economics/blacks-are-lazy.html
on “The Hacker's Manifesto (1986)”For input touch screens aren't as fun or nice as mechanical buttons. Even perfect speech recognition wouldn't be what you want in a noisy environment, for texting privately, or for eyes free operation. So take a look at this http://blog.russnelson.com/chordite/index.willison Proves my argument is correct :) Okay, so maybe the hinges aren't super sexy. EDIT: add "For input"
Comment linking /chordite/index.willison
on “Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard”See also a related but more physical idea: a "Chordite" - http://www.chordite.com/protophotos.htm - http://blog.russnelson.com/chordite/index.html
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on “Penti Chorded Keyboard”No more physical support for the hand than what's seen in the vid. You can check more info in the github repo ( https://github.com/akavel/clawtype ) and on printables ( https://www.printables.com/model/1231156-clawtype ). The strap and the plate under the wrist seem enough that I'm not looking to improve on that at the moment; but I still need to test this version on some longer usage sessions. Interestingly, the or…
Comment linking /chordite
on “Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video]”In the case of minimum wage, it does. I thought it was a good example. http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/minimum-wage.html
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on “Unintended consequences: What do a deaf woman and an endangered woodpecker have in common?”