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Antonio Cangiano
Personal blog · antoniocangiano.com · on HN as acangianoprogrammingcareer
Antonio Cangiano's personal blog at antoniocangiano.com covers programming and career. Since 2007, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 160 times, most often “Let's all grow up”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Antonio Cangiano's 2008-2009 posts on Ruby and Rails benchmarks, Ruby implementation comparisons and Rails book lists. Commenters cite them as data sources in discussions of those languages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Antonio Cangiano | Engineering Manager and AI Educator at IBM. Co-founder and Lead of IBM Skills Network, published author, and online educator with over 1.1 million course enrollments.
Most-linked posts?
- /rails-books/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-01-21
- Let's all grow up2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-01-29
- Benchmarking MacRuby 0.62 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-05-16
- Reflections on the Ruby shootout2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-11
- Simple suggestions for implementing passwords correctly2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-24
- Benchmarking tornado vs twisted-web vs tornado-on-twisted2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-14
- The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-09
What Hacker News says?
And it took him only one year (almost to the day: http://antoniocangiano.com/2009/03/11/introducing-redis-a-ke... ).
Comment linking /2009/03/11/introducing-redis-a-key-value-database/
on “VMware: the new Redis home”Submitted Who is accessing your Gmail account? as a story · 62 points
HN discussionhttp://antoniocangiano.com/2009/01/28/lets-all-grow-up/
Comment linking /2009/01/28/lets-all-grow-up/
on “I Don't Code in my Free Time”Submitted Ruby's Biggest Challenge for 2009 as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThat's not true: he was able to write the right software at the right time[1], when nobody else had will/time/whatever to scratch their own itch. The Mongrel HTTP library is today the de-facto standard for running Rails applications, and on it companies like Engine Yard based their business. Like was previously said in this thread, he's a passionate hacker, and puts his passion on his sleeve. While I don't particula…
Comment linking /2009/01/28/lets-all-grow-up
on “Rails is a Ghetto (retracted)”Submitted Let's all grow up as a story · 60 points
HN discussionPublished: http://antoniocangiano.com/2010/05/16/benchmarking-macruby-0...
Comment linking /2010/05/16/benchmarking-macruby-0-6/
on “MacRuby 0.6 Official Release”Submitted Benchmarking Tornado vs. Twisted Web vs. Tornado on Twisted vs. Unicorn as a story · 53 points
HN discussionHow dare you? I'll defend my humour till the death. :-) On the contrary, I can certainly appreciate humour, including augmented forms in which swearwords are used for effect. I love jokes and humour in general, and I indulge in humour myself, in one form or another, most of the time. You place me in the awkward position of having to claim my own qualities, but most people who know me consider me a hilarious person.…
Comment linking /2008/09/09/a-status-update/
on “Let's all grow up”Submitted The most important programming language today as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSigh, not that nonsense comparison again. Apart from using suboptimal Lua code (the author obviously doesn't know about the Lua keyword 'local'), LuaJIT beta2 didn't compile recursion at all. It runs more than 4x faster with the current version and beats MacRuby easily. Oh, and comparing language implementations based on the speed of a recursive Fibonacci number generator has exactly zero real-world relevance. Try a…
Comment linking /2010/05/16/benchmarking-macruby-0-6/
on “Copland 2010 revisited: Apple's language and API future”Submitted Developers are blinded by the light as a story · 47 points
HN discussionhttp://antoniocangiano.com/2009/09/13/benchmarking-tornado-v... 2000 concurrent requests
Comment linking /2009/09/13/benchmarking-tornado-vs-twisted-web-vs-tornado-on-twisted/
on “Python Community in Anguish, Pain, Despair Over Web Server”Submitted Rails is the best thing that ever happened to Python as a story · 43 points
HN discussionAs far as the database goes, with decent hardware DB2 9.5 will have you covered [1]. And, should you become truly huge, it can exceed your requirements by a long shot, provided that some serious hardware is employed [2]. [1] http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/11/04/benchmarking-db2-purex... [2] http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=10...
Comment linking /2008/11/04/benchmarking-db2-purexml-against-1-tb-of-xml-data/
on “Ask HN: How do I handle a million hits a minute?”Submitted The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008) as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI think that picture of a stack of books is very telling. 2006: http://www.garbett.org/files/books.jpg 2008: http://antoniocangiano.com/images/rubyandrailsbooks.jpg
Comment linking /images/rubyandrailsbooks.jpg
on “Rails is the best thing that ever happened to Python”Submitted Introducing Redis: a fast key-value database as a story · 35 points
HN discussionNow I might be being stupid here but as far as I can see from the graph of total time that Vista and Ubuntu are roughly equivalent: http://antoniocangiano.com/images/shootout3/chart_total_time...
Comment linking /images/shootout3/chart_total_time_small.png
on “The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008)”Submitted Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada as a story · 34 points
HN discussionhttp://antoniocangiano.com/2009/01/28/lets-all-grow-up/
Comment linking /2009/01/28/lets-all-grow-up/
on “A Software Designer Knows His Office Space, Too”Submitted What Arc should learn from Ruby as a story · 33 points
HN discussionI have to agree with Nutter - MacRuby is nowhere near a complete implementation and there is absolutely no point trying to judge its performance until it is. See last year's MagLev debacle for precedent. You were right on board with that train wreck, if I recall correctly, and let me assure you the few of us who poured skepticism on their numbers are feeling pretty vindicated by now. Another problem I have is the us…
Comment linking /2008/12/10/reflections-on-the-ruby-shootout/
on “Why MacRuby Matters (Present & Future)”Submitted Why MacRuby Matters (Present & Future) as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI finally got around to updating the Rails version as well: http://antoniocangiano.com/rails-books/
Comment linking /rails-books/
on “Can you recommend some good RoR books?”Submitted Startup Interviews: Balsamiq Studio LLC as a story · 25 points
HN discussionFor Ruby books, checkout my page here: * Recommended Ruby Books ( http://antoniocangiano.com/ruby-and-rails-recommended-books/ ) I have not updated the Rails page yet, but you should be fine with: * Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition ( http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-... ) Other books you may want to consider afterward are: * The Art of Rails ( http://www.amazon.com/Art-Rails…
Comment linking /ruby-and-rails-recommended-books/
on “Can you recommend some good RoR books?”Submitted How companies should hire developers as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThey should offer a premium feature that enables you to map your own domain name. I would replace my homepage ( http://antoniocangiano.com ) with something like this if the feature was available. (Of course, I could iframe it, redirect, etc... but it's not the same.)
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on “About.Me Has 400,000 Beta Testers, Opens Doors To All”Submitted My Recommendations for Ruby on Rails Hosting Services as a story · 22 points
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