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Will Styler
Personal blog · wstyler.ucsd.edu/postsprogrammingsystemsculture
Will Styler's personal blog at wstyler.ucsd.edu covers programming, systems and culture. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The R-Word and the Euphemism Treadmill (2012)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link posts on the 'R-word' and why banning terms leads to new euphemisms, and on building a static website with Pandoc and Markdown. They cite the posts without judging 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.
Most-linked posts?
- The R-Word and the Euphemism Treadmill (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-24
What Hacker News says?
> Your comment lacks explanation. Well, I don’t entirely have an explanation, just an observation. Coming up with an explanation any deeper than “random chance arrangement of related issues” would require speculating about other people’s intent, something I consider to be a complete waste of time as intent is fundamentally unknowable. The outcome is what matters, not the intent, so I’m fine with not knowing. What I…
Comment linking /posts/hermetically_sealed.html
on “As water crisis worsens on Colorado River, an urgent call for states to ‘act’”Submitted The R-Word and the Euphemism Treadmill (2012) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/r_word.html > forcing language change seldom works, and ultimately, all they’re really doing is ushering us onto the next euphemism. They may banish “the R-word”, but soon enough, you’ll walk by a middle school playground and overhear “That movie was so developmentally disabled”. I'm using "retard" because the term has extensive cultural baggage and everyone here has childhood memories…
Comment linking /posts/r_word.html
on “Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have”Submitted The EnronSent Corpus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGiven this context, I feel like 50-odd lines of shell-fu will serve you well. Pandoc offers a pretty flexible templating system. So all told, you'll have just the one dependency. For example: Building a Website using Pandoc, Markdown, and Static HTML https://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/pandoc_website.html
Comment linking /posts/pandoc_website.html
on “Why I Blog”Submitted Moving from macOS to Linux: What's Better? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Website Using Pandoc, Markdown, and Static HTML as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Alchemical origin of “Hermetically Sealed” (2007) as a story · 1 points
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