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The Mooseyard is a personal blog at mooseyard.com about programming and security. Since 2007, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Blocks/Closures For C”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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10mentions?
9HN people?
2007–2009first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2008

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

Why HN links it

Cited in one comment on a Snow Leopard thread, alongside a cfe-dev mailing list post, for when the clang/gcc code would reach the main distribution. The comment does not judge the 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Blocks/Closures For C
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Chris Lattner's first paragraph here talks about that a bit, although it doesn't give a timeframe for when the gcc implementation will make its way back to the main distribution: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2008-August/00267... Although, there's a comment by Johannes Fortmann here that says that the code has been available in an svn repository since at least September 5, 2008: http://mooseyard.com/Jen…

    Comment linking /Jens/2008/08/blocksclosures-for-c/

    on “Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)”
  2. Submitted Apple never promised us it wouldn't be Evil as a story · 52 points

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  3. Submitted Murky: A Mercurial Client App for OS X as a story · 38 points

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  4. Submitted Why Is Twitter Using A Database In The First Place? as a story · 21 points

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  5. Submitted Python 3.0: What's The Point? as a story · 17 points

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  6. Submitted Blocks/Closures For C as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Doing application updates via version-control as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted MobileMe biggest problem: insecurity as a story · 1 points

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  9. Submitted More iPhone background app analysis as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted Facebook and Decentralized Identifiers as a story · 1 points

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