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stuffthathappens.com
Personal blog · stuffthathappens.com/blogprogrammingculture
stuffthathappens.com is a personal blog at stuffthathappens.com about programming and culture. Since 2008, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “It's just a bunch of stuff that happens”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on why Twitter succeeded, the Sling Blade Runner anagram puzzle from ITA Software's hiring puzzles, and Apple and Google's simplicity. Most comments are bare links or source citations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- It's just a bunch of stuff that happens4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-03-07
What Hacker News says?
http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/...
Comment linking /blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/simplicity.png
on “Ask HN: Why did Twitter succeed?”Submitted It's just a bunch of stuff that happens as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYesterday someone mentioned the Sling Blade Runner problem from their archives and I can't stop thinking about it. * http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzle_archive.html?catid... * http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/10/03/sling-blade-runn... I'm in the middle of writing a web-based anagram server and there's some similarities in both these problems. You have a dictionary that you iterate through recursively to…
Comment linking /blog/2007/10/03/sling-blade-runner/
on “ITA Software's Hiring Puzzles”Submitted High Tech Henpecking (with a simple but important lesson for startups) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOriginal Source: http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/05/simplicity/
Comment linking /blog/2008/03/05/simplicity/
on “Apple - google - you”Submitted Simplicity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhehe, http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/11/28/whos-the-addict At least he practices what he preaches :)
Comment linking /blog/2008/11/28/whos-the-addict
on “Why I Love Twitter”Submitted Dropbox, Live Mesh, Git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOriginal here: http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/05/simplicity/
Comment linking /blog/2008/03/05/simplicity/
on “Why Google and Apple Win”Submitted Chrome, firefox, Vista: RAM per new tab as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>Once upon a time Java was one of the preferred methods for writing Mac OS apps: Apple clearly doesn't want that anymore. Apple just doesn't see enough benefit in continuing their own JVM development. The primary reason that Java was the preferred method was purely because of the portable nature of Java code, and the fact that Mac OS9 and OSX didn't really have enough marketshare to make full ports feasible. Since O…
Comment linking /blog/2007/10/28/os-x-java-definitive-timeline/
on a deleted threadSubmitted What is like to be a programmer as a story · 1 points
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