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Sara Chipps

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Sara Chipps's personal blog at sarajchipps.com covers career and programming. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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10mentions?
9HN people?
2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link posts on whether client-side JavaScript can be proprietary, and on why the author stopped doing .NET development. The comments only cite or link them, without judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-28
  2. Why I No Longer Do .NET Development
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. I see this as more of a continuation of the author's previous post rather than a commentary on borrowing JavaScript: A Post About Why I No Longer Do .NET Development http://www.sarajchipps.com/2011/10/this-blog-post-has-been-a...

    Comment linking /2011/10/this-blog-post-has-been-a-long-time-coming-i-started-my-career-within-the-net-community-and-my-posts-of-late-have-been-d.html

    on “There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript”
  2. Submitted There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  3. There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript ( http://www.sarajchipps.com/2011/12/there-is-no-such-thing-is... )

    Comment linking /2011/12/there-is-no-such-thing-is-proprietary-client-side-javascript.html

    on “Why do browsers not allow non-readable javascript?”
  4. Submitted In which I answer all of the questions (2012) as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Recruiting: There is no such thing as a developer shortage as a story · 69 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted My Role as CTO of Flatiron School and Flatiron Labs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted DIY Hardware Hack Day as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Why I No Longer Do .NET Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted An Easy Way for Everyone to Participate in the 1/18 SOPA/PIPA Protest Blackout as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Developers and Professionalism as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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