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Mark Jaquith

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Mark Jaquith writes Tempus Fugit, a personal blog at txfx.net about programming and philosophy. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Why I am an atheist and a naturalist - Mark Jaquith”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Linked in an HN thread about why people pay for Sublime Text. The one comment discusses Sublime's features, licensing and speed, not the writing in the post.

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.

Mark Jaquith's personal blog

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why I am an atheist and a naturalist - Mark Jaquith
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. I paid for it because I've found it superior than all the other text editors I've used (those that are comparable e.g. Atom / MS Code just seemed to steal all it's ideas). Plus it's a business expense so you save on the taxes. It's: * Cross-platform * A small scale team * One license and I can install it on all my machines * Excellent plugins [1] * Fast * Low memory usage / leaks * Lovely UI - tabs, distraction free…

    Comment linking /2014/11/08/my-sublime-text-3-packages/

    on “Why nobody pays for Sublime?”
  2. Submitted How Apple’s iCloud Drive deletes your files without warning as a story · 221 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Why I am an atheist and a naturalist - Mark Jaquith as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Why I am an atheist and a naturalist, by Mark Jaquith as a story · 4 points

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