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Adam Horvath
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Adam Horvath's personal blog at blog.teamleadnet.com covers programming and career. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment, which discusses the post's Node.js control-flow topic (callback hell, promises, async, Highland streams). It is mostly a critique of the title and the post's need.
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.
programming, algorithm, and a little something else
What Hacker News says?
"Callback hell" is very effective linkbait for a title, there is not a need for the post. Promises are an effective implementation of control flow for ES5 JS, but don't really improve program structure. They are most useful "under-the-hood", as TameJS/Iced-CS creates when compiling. The overarching solution is to be "flat" by using small, composable functions. Lazy.js and Highland.js force the user to do this but re…
Comment linking /2013/08/async-await-in-net-is-not-for.html
on “Node.js Flow – Callback Hell vs. Async vs. Highland Streams”Submitted The power of two – fast division and modulo operations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interviewing bad practices as a story · 1 points
HN discussion