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William Hilsum

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William Hilsum writes William's Blog, a personal blog at blog.williamhilsum.com about hardware and business. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2011–2011first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's posts on Experts Exchange and on using Google Apps and Outlook for email and Office 365. The comments respond to those posts' claims on those topics.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Maybe not the best grammar or writing style... but will try to get my point across!

What Hacker News says?

  1. The reply from Brutus Lyon[1] does not even warrant a response because everything about it feels wrong. Anyway here goes: >> EE has always had a free registration at https://secure.experts-exchange.com/registerExpert.jsp . That people choose to not use it isn't EE's fault. Your fault is hiding the link from users and sending them to https://secure.experts-exchange.com/register.jsp?rsid=60&... when clicking on the si…

    Comment linking /2011/02/response-to-experts-exchange-blog-post.html?showComment=1297831818465

    on “A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost”
  2. Submitted A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  3. As long as we're OT, I want to address your other article: http://blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/07/my-take-on-google-apps... Using Google Apps with Outlook is a recipe for disaster. I use Google Apps IMAP (for local backups) via Apple Mail, Postbox, Swallow and other clients. I've never had the slightest issue. On the other hand, I've supported IMAP users in Outlook and hated every second of it. Outlook generally is a…

    Comment linking /2011/07/my-take-on-google-apps-vs-office-365.html

    on “Is Microsoft trying to get rid of partners through Office 365?”
  4. Submitted Is Microsoft trying to get rid of partners through Office 365? as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Facebook Like/Wall Spam as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Intel Core I7-2600k internal graphics issues as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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