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Tony Bowden
Personal blog · nothing.tmtm.comprogrammingculture
Tony Bowden writes Understanding Nothing, a personal blog at nothing.tmtm.com about programming and culture. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on building an accounting system on a wiki and on the design of double-entry accounting, plus a list of management book additions. Comments cite these as sources and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Tony Bowden described an accounting system built on Semantic Mediawiki in 2006. http://nothing.tmtm.com/tag/finance/
Comment linking /tag/finance/
on “Accounting for Computer Scientists”Submitted Eulogy to _why as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttp://nothing.tmtm.com/2006/09/using-a-wiki-as-an-accountin... http://nothing.tmtm.com/2006/09/more-on-accounting-wikis/
Comment linking /2006/09/more-on-accounting-wikis/
on “A Software Architect's View of the Design of Double Entry Accounting (2012)”I blogged some additions to Joel's list a few years ago: http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2511 I should really get around to updating that...
Comment linking /archives/2511
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite management books?”Ingy used to have a blog post about all the different hassles he had with different people coping badly with the ö (passport, driving licence, Amazon account etc). He's killed his blog at least twice since then though, so I don't think it's currently available and I can't find it in archive.org I don't know about the US, but I made a series of Freedom of Information requests in the UK to find the answer to exactly t…
Comment linking /2008/11/irene-and-irene-and-%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F-and-%E5%AE%89%E5%A8%9C/
on “Facebook's real-name-only approach is non-negotiable”