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Shawn Dumas

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Shawn Dumas writes Tumblr, a personal blog at blog.shawndumas.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “I’m Leaving Yahoo”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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19mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

Most-linked posts?

  1. I’m Leaving Yahoo
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-04-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. I made the discussed changes here[1]. You can run them here[2]. Thanks again for your constructive input. --- [1]: http://blog.shawndumas.com/wait-until [2]: http://jsfiddle.net/Pdft8/2/

    Comment linking /wait-until

    on “Don't wait for "DOM ready" for your app to start”
  2. Submitted Streaming a PNG with node.js as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  3. How about something like this[1]? ---- [1]: http://blog.shawndumas.com/wait-until

    Comment linking /wait-until

    on “Don't wait for "DOM ready" for your app to start”
  4. Submitted I’m Leaving Yahoo as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. I agree; and that's coming from someone that just resigned from Yahoo. Here is an excerpt from my resignation post: The transformation that I’ve experienced over the last two years of being in Sunnyvale has been inspiring. There is a palatable sense that we are on the verge of a momentous turnabout. No internet company of that size has ever lost monthly active users in those numbers without nose-diving into oblivion…

    Comment linking /post/115979867433/im-leaving-yahoo

    on “Marissa Mayer Shuffles Yahoo Leadership Team”
  6. Submitted Yahoo is going full steam ahead with EmberJS as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. const logicGates = { nand(a, b) { return !(a && b); }, not(a) { return this.nand(a, a); }, and(a, b) { return this.not(this.nand(a, b)); }, or(a, b) { return this.nand(this.not(a), this.not(b)); }, nor(a, b) { return this.not(this.or(a, b)); }, xor(a, b) { return this.and(this.nand(a, b), this.or(a, b)); }, xnor(a, b) { return this.not(this.xor(a, b)); } }; Object.keys(logicGates) .map(gate => { return [ { gate, a:…

    Comment linking /post/119694815258/logic-gates-es6-version

    on “Nand to Tetris 1”
  8. Submitted The Introverted Issue as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Leaving Yahoo as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Logic Gates (es6 version) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted JavaScript Type Checking 101 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Poor man’s PubSub in EmberJS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Surefire Type Detection In JavaScript as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Abusing JSON.stringify as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Getting Git and WinMerge talking in a 64bit Windows Environment as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Partial Functions in Scala as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted American Soundex in JavaScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Quick (Partial) XSS Fix In ASP.NET as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted A JavaScript Implementation of TreeWalker as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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