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Slender Means
Personal blog · slendermeans.orgprogrammingdatamath
Slender Means is a personal blog at slendermeans.org about programming, data and math. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by Matlab… (2013)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as a better treatment of programming language choice, comparing Julia, R, MATLAB and Python. One commenter felt it had received little attention compared with the submission.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by Matlab… (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-05
- A Geneva Convention for the Scientific Language Wars2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-23
What Hacker News says?
This is odd as a much better post on Julia v R v MATLAB v Python etc has got little attention: http://slendermeans.org/language-wars.html
Comment linking /language-wars.html
on “Why I'm Betting On Julia”Submitted Tricked out iterators in Julia as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by Matlab… (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by Matlab … (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better typography for IPython notebooks (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Geneva Convention for the Scientific Language Wars as a story · 1 points
HN discussion