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baus.net
Personal blog · baus.net · on HN as bausstartupsprogramming
baus.net is a personal blog at baus.net about startups and programming. Since 2008, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “You can't impress developers. So don't try”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link baus.net for posts on TCP buffering (TCP_CORK, Nagle), memory management and overcommit, and developer career and industry topics. Comments mostly cite or link posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
christopher@baus.net
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/you-cant-impress-developers/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-02
- /on-tcp_cork/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-10
- You can't impress developers. So don't try2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-31
What Hacker News says?
Some network stacks like those in Solaris and HP/UX let you tune the "Nagle limit" in just such a fashion, up to disabling it entirely by setting it to 1. I'm not aware of it being tunable on Linux, though you can manually control the buffering using TCP_CORK. https://baus.net/on-tcp_cork/ has some nice details.
Comment linking /on-tcp_cork/
on “It's always TCP_NODELAY”Submitted You can't impress developers as a story · 265 points
HN discussionhttps://baus.net/you-cant-impress-developers/
Comment linking /you-cant-impress-developers/
on “Compare career levels across companies”Submitted You can't impress developers. So don't try as a story · 162 points
HN discussionYou're not alone: http://baus.net/im-bipolar It is interesting that meditation was one of your triggers. Meditation and mindful awareness is something I'm personally spending a lot of time on to reverse the effects of bipolar -- specifically to slow racing thoughts and dislocation from the moment. For me, I feel like it helps. Many things that cause me anxiety I'm able to work out through meditation. For me, one of…
Comment linking /im-bipolar
on “MentalHealthError: an exception occurred”Submitted The house I was born in sold for $4000 as a story · 115 points
HN discussionHere are couple ideas I've written on the topic: http://baus.net/i-don%27t-like-public-speaking/ I did quite a bit of public speaking in the past couple years and it gets easier over time. I think the best advice is prepare, prepare, prepare.
Comment linking /i-don%27t-like-public-speaking/
on “Public speaking is tough”Submitted I met Jack Dorsey in South Park, and all I got was this blog post as a story · 12 points
HN discussionthe URL was changed to http://baus.net/posts/you-cant-impress-developers/
Comment linking /posts/you-cant-impress-developers/
on “You can't impress developers”Submitted Misconstruing Salary with Professional Advancement as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm getting a "Not Found" on the link. Looks like the url changed slightly to: http://baus.net/posts/you-cant-impress-developers/ (its not a cache, but i'll say cached here for those searching the comments for a link to the google cache)
Comment linking /posts/you-cant-impress-developers/
on “You can't impress developers”Submitted Beyond the technical start-up, meet Chicago's king of the question. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJust tried accessing this via the HN link but it was dead. It seems this is the new location of the post: http://baus.net/posts/you-cant-impress-developers/
Comment linking /posts/you-cant-impress-developers/
on “You can't impress developers”Submitted The house I was born in sold for $4000 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI remember years ago, I had a blog entry hit the homepage of Reddit: http://baus.net/rails-wrong-language/ . I think the user that posted it was Linuxer or something like that. But the account had a ton of karma and there was some question if it was just a bot run by Reddit.
Comment linking /rails-wrong-language/
on “How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction”Submitted Going Serverless: Converting Yield.IO to AWS and Lambda as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI see this problem all the time in our marketing department. I think Microsoft Office is the problem, and the solution is to move toward systems which support collaborative document editing like wikis. One of my pet peeves is emailed Word documents that the author has no intention that the reader will print. I prefer to read most documents in a web browser. I consider Word documents (and PDFs) to be skeuomorphs from…
Comment linking /documents-are-skeuomorphic/
on “Git for the masses”Submitted The Software Paradox as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI speculated that this might be the case. http://baus.net/instagram-is-twitter-the-loser Strangely, Chris Sacca and Jack Dorsey were both investors in Instagram and they still lost the deal. I suspect it just got to rich for them. I don't think this bodes well for Twitter.
Comment linking /instagram-is-twitter-the-loser
on “How Twitter’s secret offer for Instagram made Facebook pay $1B”Submitted Your stuff has no value as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInteresting on the corking stuff. I looked at this a long time ago ( http://baus.net/on-tcp_cork/ ) and found it could make a significant difference for event driven applications.
Comment linking /on-tcp_cork/
on “What’s New in Node.js v0.12 – Performance Optimizations”Submitted To my generation (of programmers that is) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can have a rubber outsole added to a leather-soled welted shoe: http://baus.net/alden-cordovan-af53-long-term-review/
Comment linking /alden-cordovan-af53-long-term-review/
on “The Year of Dressing Formally (2008)”Submitted A reflection on the cost of change (or why I write software in my free time) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt was non-trivial for Kodak to replace the $16B in revenue they had from film. Having been a student in Rochester during Kodak's peak revenue, I have no doubt they saw digital coming, but what to do about it was less than obvious. If Kodak could have been Adobe, Flikr, and Instagram all rolled into one, they still wouldn't have same revenue they had in the 90s. I wrote about this before here: http://baus.net/will-t…
Comment linking /will-there-be-a-third
on “Bankrupt Kodak sells off patents to investors for $525M”Submitted Note to developers: not everyone has home mail delivery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat kind of blades does the company make? Are they multi-blade? Harry's is a great idea, but I've been happy with double edge razors for a while now: http://baus.net/shave-kit
Comment linking /shave-kit
on “How Harry's Bought a German Razor Factory”Submitted The SwitchFlow C++ HTTP Proxy: A Postmortem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs someone who has spent most of his career in report creation and management (specifically in financial asset management), I find the current state of enterprise reporting in flux. In finance, most documents are still laid out for print (PDFs, Word Docs, and even PowerPoints), but users are printing them less frequently and viewing them either online or on their tablets, and IMO the user experience leaves a lot to…
Comment linking /documents-are-skeuomorphic
on “Google, HelloFax, Expensify And Others Want You To Go Paperless In 2013”Submitted An apology to Zach Holman. as a story · 2 points
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