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Sam Stephenson
Personal blog · sstephenson.us/posts · on HN as sstephensonprogrammingcareer
Sam Stephenson's personal blog at sstephenson.us covers programming and career. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “You Are Not Your Code (2012)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Sam Stephenson's post "You are not your code", which argues that critique of a project is not a personal attack. Commenters cite it when discussing criticism of open-source work and developers' own code.
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.
Open-source software author and veteran web and Unix programmer
Most-linked posts?
- You Are Not Your Code (2012)7 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2012-12-13
- On Configuration4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-07-09
What Hacker News says?
The developer of Prototype had to handle also with a lot of criticism and there is his response: http://sstephenson.us/posts/you-are-not-your-code "I have learned that in the open-source world, you are not your code. A critique of your project is not tantamount to a personal attack"
Comment linking /posts/you-are-not-your-code
on “What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project”Submitted You Are Not Your Code (2012) as a story · 105 points
HN discussionSam Stephenson (Author of Prototype and Rbenv) talks about that here: http://sstephenson.us/posts/you-are-not-your-code
Comment linking /posts/you-are-not-your-code
on “GCC 4.9 is doing “some seriously crazy shit” according to Linus Torvalds”Submitted On Configuration as a story · 91 points
HN discussionHere's another perspective: http://sstephenson.us/posts/on-configuration
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on “Use Zsh”Submitted You Are Not Your Code as a story · 29 points
HN discussion"You are not your code"[1] When I look at code I wrote in the past I frequently think "what utter horse shit." I'm a better coder than I was 4 years a go and I will be a better coder in 4 years time. The extension of that means that, yes, the code I write today will be terrible by the standards of my future self. So yes, I am right now writing terrible code and it's fine. If someone takes the time to critique my cod…
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on “On Rust Hate-Writing”Submitted You Are Not Your Code (2012) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Are Not Your Code (2012) as a story · 3 points
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HN discussionSubmitted You Are Not Your Code (2012) as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted You Are Not Your Code (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Are Not Your Code (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Configuration (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Configuration (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Are Not Your Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Are Not Your Code (2012) as a story · 1 points
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