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Asquera Blog

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Asquera Blog is the company blog at asquera.de, writing about programming and data. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Rust Lifetimes for the Uninitialised”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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14mentions?
7HN people?
2012–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2018

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post about running VirtualBox 4.2 and Vagrant on OS X Mavericks, where the kernel extensions do not load on boot and must be loaded manually. The linked comment cites it as a workaround.

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.

Berlin based technology consultancy specialising in backends, databases, and Elasticsearch.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Rust Lifetimes for the Uninitialised
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-01-29
  2. Getting started with Rust on the command line
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. Thanks for the writeup! strace should definitely be in your toolbox. There is also systemtap, which I like a lot as well. It has some problem on Linux though, especially only being widely supported of Linux > 3.5 if the distro you are using does not ship with patches. Custom userspace probes are a real strong point. I wrote a short article about stap using Rubys probes as an example: http://www.asquera.de/blog/2014-…

    Comment linking /blog/2014-01-26/stap-and-ruby-2

    on “The Magic of strace”
  2. Submitted ElasticSearch pre-flight checklist as a story · 64 points

    HN discussion
  3. I hear that sentiment a lot (I blogged about it here: [1]). Basically, "every time I use Sinatra, I ended up with franken-rails" means that Sinatra was either picked for the wrong reasons or misused. If you want to build something large based on Sinatra, for the love of $deity, please use organization systems people have built for you, be it Padrino, some Sinatra stack or something else. It doesn't mean that Sinatra…

    Comment linking /opensource/2012/10/22/the-rails-monotheism/

    on “Rails is omakase”
  4. Submitted Getting started with Rust on the command line as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. > VirtualBox doesn't work. VMware does. I haven't tried Virtualbox 4.3 but Virtualbox 4.2 sort of works on Mavericks. The kernel extensions don't load on boot, but can be loaded manually. I blogged about that here http://asquera.de/development/2013/06/20/vagrant-on-maverick...

    Comment linking /development/2013/06/20/vagrant-on-mavericks/

    on “VirtualBox 4.3 released”
  6. Submitted Rust Lifetimes for the Uninitialised as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Rust lifetimes intro as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Getting started with Rust on the command line as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Getting Bored Of The Rails Monotheism as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Rust Lifetimes for the Uninitialised as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Hip But Flawed: CFPs on Github as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Path to Rust on the Web as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Systemtap and Ruby 2.1 (on Ubuntu) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A workflow to develop elasticsearch indices as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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