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Some Notes

Personal blog · branliu.comstartupswriting

Some Notes is a personal blog at branliu.com about startups and writing. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Entrepreneur? Stay in School.”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked post is about using Vim as a C/C++ IDE. The one comment argues against Vim distributions and links a Reddit thread for context, without judging this post's writing.

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.

A blog

Most-linked posts?

  1. Entrepreneur? Stay in School.
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Eugh. Every time these vim distributions get mentioned I shiver. Have a read of: https://old.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/92a9y0/whats_your_hone... for some context. In all seriousness though they tend to cause more problems than what it's worth. They are aimed at users who don't know anything about vim, which is also their caveat, they're not only learning vim, but also the distribution of it. Then when a plugin doesn…

    Comment linking /blog/2012/05/14/organizing-your-vimrc/

    on “Use Vim as a C/C++ IDE”
  2. Submitted Entrepreneur? Stay in School. as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Education for a Successful Entrepreneur as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Judgment of Social Media Entrepreneurship as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted List Lunacy: Problem, Algorithm, Proof, and Analysis as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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