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taw's blog
Personal blog · t-a-w.blogspot.comprogrammingpolitics
taw's blog is a personal blog at t-a-w.blogspot.com about programming and politics. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link taw's blog as a source for posts on data processing tools, PageRank, democracy rankings that favour figurehead monarchs, and the myth of the 5-day work week. None of the comments judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Well, I've saved a couple: * Joost's mental toolbox for coding problems: http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/building-your-menta... * taw's data processing toolkit: http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2008/01/pagerank-new-addition-to-y... * thinkagainer's list of conceptual tools https://twitter.com/thinkagainer/status/1475975339818065920
Comment linking /2008/01/pagerank-new-addition-to-your-data.html
on “Problem solving strategies in a graduate real analysis course (2010)”This covers the same point as a blog post I once read: http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2010/05/want-democracy-get-figureh... . That post uses a ranking of countries by democracy to conclude that figurehead monarchs provide the most democracy of the types of government examined.
Comment linking /2010/05/want-democracy-get-figurehead-king.html
on “A Modest Proposal: A King and Queen for America”I also recall this blog post from 2009: http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2009/11/myth-of-5-day-people-never...
Comment linking /2009/11/myth-of-5-day-people-never-ate-that.html
on “Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries”