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Knowing.NET is a personal blog at knowing.net about programming. Since 2007, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics””. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2007–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2008

Most-linked posts?

  1. Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics”
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. ExpiredLink · 2014-11-17
    > Professional talent does vary, but there is not a shred of evidence that the best professional developers are an order of magnitude more productive than median developers at any timescale, much less on a meaningful timescale such as that of a product release cycle. There is abundant evidence that this is not the case http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2011/12/09/forbes-is-wrong-... > The Myth of the Rockstar Program…

    Comment linking /index.php/2011/12/09/forbes-is-wrong-about-developernomics/

    on “The Programmer's Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent”
  2. maigret · 2011-12-10

    Submitted Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics” as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  3. Zanni · 2021-06-19
    I like Larry O'Brien's three-part series, "15 Exercises to Know a Programming Language," [1][2][3] mostly for the overall philosophy ("should be tough enough to require problem solving: try to embrace the language's idioms") and for the rationale that comes with each exercise (e.g. implement this to learn that about your chosen language). Note: the internal links between parts of the series are broken, so here are a…

    Comment linking /posts/2006/06/15-exercises-to-know-a-programming-language-part-3-libraries-frameworks-and-mashups/

    on “Ask HN: Projects for learning a language?”
  4. sstrudeau · 2010-03-18

    Submitted Project Manager's View vs. Developer's View as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  5. lelele · 2012-01-10
    This is my favorite: http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-...

    Comment linking /index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-know-a-programming-language-part-1/

    on “A Collection of Exercises for Learning Erlang (Or Any Other Language)”
  6. iamelgringo · 2008-03-31

    Submitted Bad Programmers Are Not Good Programmers Who Are Slow as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  7. Flemlord · 2008-09-24
    > Why is emacs a great editor? It isn't--don't believe the hype. On the other hand, I couldn't write a line of code without IntelliSense. Does anybody know anything about Emacs.Net that Microsoft is working on? http://www.knowing.net/PermaLink,guid,31fdc849-db2a-4f7d-bf9...

    Comment linking /PermaLink,guid,31fdc849-db2a-4f7d-bf96-44df005a06b4.aspx

    on “Ask YC: Why is emacs a great editor?”
  8. baha_man · 2009-08-10

    Submitted 220 Billion Lines of COBOL? BS as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  9. nickb · 2008-04-14

    Submitted 30K application lines + 110K testing lines: Evidence of...? as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  10. maurycy · 2008-01-15

    Submitted No Silver Programmers as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  11. rockstar9 · 2008-04-26

    Submitted "I'm getting really freaking tired of experiencing this level of incompetence" as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  12. bootload · 2008-06-11

    Submitted Incompetent American Programmers as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  13. smanek · 2008-05-14

    Submitted 15 Excercises to Know a programming language as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  14. chadgeidel · 2011-12-13

    Submitted Why 10x Ticks Me Off as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. kirubakaran · 2008-06-16

    Submitted Fast Ranking Algorithm as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. nickb · 2007-08-30

    Submitted Lectures are Ineffective as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. baha_man · 2009-08-25

    Submitted Brilliance From Siggraph: Bokeh-Based Tiny Barcodes as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. MaysonL · 2009-01-17

    Submitted Star hopping : Goto Scope: vi : IDE as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. lobrien · 2013-08-12

    Submitted Programming the ChromeCast with C# as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. ikbear · 2010-09-14

    Submitted Apple to Make Ruby First-Class Language? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. baha_man · 2009-10-14

    Submitted Rails And PHP Are The Access(es) Of The Web as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. mooreds · 2022-03-03

    Submitted A Simple 3-Step AzureML Pipeline (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. ingve · 2015-08-05

    Submitted FizzBuzz with iOS 9 GameplayKit Expert System in C# with Xam.iOS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. ohjeez · 2013-04-01

    Submitted Hungarian Monadic Notation: Call Me Maybe() as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. baha_man · 2009-10-17

    Submitted Review Disclosure: Separate Treatment for Bloggers and Traditional Media as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. MaysonL · 2009-01-27

    Submitted Star Party on Mauna Kea as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. edw519 · 2008-03-31

    Submitted Don't Let Below Average Programmers Hurt Your "Silver Codebase" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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