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Benjamin Smedberg

Personal blog · benjamin.smedbergs.us/blogprogrammingsystems

Benjamin Smedberg writes Answers and Questions, a personal blog at benjamin.smedbergs.us about programming and systems. Since 2009, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “(2007) Is C++ hurting Mozilla development?”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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18mentions?
18HN people?
2009–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Benjamin Smedberg's blog for his 2014 warning against using Mozilla Persona for high-value data, his 2010 reply on Mozilla policy disputing Asa Dotzler, and his pymake Makefile parser.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. (2007) Is C++ hurting Mozilla development?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-01
  2. Don’t Use Mozilla Persona to Secure High-Value Data
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-11
  3. How I Hire at Mozilla
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. asb · 2014-05-01
    Just needs someone to grab a Python Makefile parser (e.g. http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/pymake/ ), a python KConfig lib (e.g. https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib though I guess this isn't really necessary) and write a ninja generator for the kernel build system.

    Comment linking /pymake/

    on “The cost of Linux's page fault handling”
  2. kinetik · 2012-11-12

    Submitted Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript as a story · 177 points

    HN discussion
  3. stephth · 2011-05-01
    No, but I'd love to hear about it. I see a lot of c++ devs complaining about how after 20 years they still haven't found a common ground on how to properly use c++ [1], its complicated memory management or its poor support for strings [2], things that are taken for granted with objc and Core Foundation. On one side I see an incredible amount of developers dealing with high amounts of complexity with C++, and on the…

    Comment linking /blog/2007-11-05/what-if/

    on “Objective-C's niche: why it survives in a world of alternatives”
  4. zobzu · 2014-02-11

    Submitted Don’t Use Mozilla Persona to Secure High-Value Data as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  5. Steuard · 2010-11-30
    Is this "called out by Mozilla" or "called out by Asa Dotzler"? After all, Benjamin Smedberg just posted a reply that begins "Asa is wrong": http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2010-11-29/software-integr... If Asa's post represented official Mozilla policy, I would have expected that to be more explicit.

    Comment linking /blog/2010-11-29/software-integration-is-not-evil/

    on “Apple, Microsoft, and Google called out by Mozilla to "stop being evil"”
  6. ianbicking · 2015-05-11

    Submitted Hiring at Mozilla: Beyond Resumés and Interview Panels as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  7. jupiter2 · 2016-02-22
    Looks interesting (like the expiration=never). Uses Mozilla Persona, which I hadn't heard of before. Apparently 'Persona' is no longer being developed by Mozilla since early/2014(1). Also... warnings that 'Persona' isn't secure for high-value data(2). (1) http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/08/mozilla-stops-developing-it... (2) http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2014-02-11/dont-use-mozill...

    Comment linking /blog/2014-02-11/dont-use-mozilla-persona-to-secure-high-value-data/

    on “Pastery – The sweetest pastebin in the world”
  8. senorsmile · 2018-01-06

    Submitted (2007) Is C++ hurting Mozilla development? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. wyclif · 2014-11-10

    Submitted How I Hire at Mozilla as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. cpeterso · 2014-03-22

    Submitted Using Software Copyright To Benefit the Public as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. tortilla · 2009-12-17

    Submitted Multi-Process Plugins for Firefox as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. lxt · 2013-04-09

    Submitted Introducing jydoop: fast and sane Map Reduce in Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. mbrubeck · 2010-03-03

    Submitted Firefox, Safe From Plugin Crashes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. newsit · 2009-02-16

    Submitted Pymake: A Mostly GNU-compatible `make`, Written in Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. bsmedberg · 2014-10-02

    Submitted How I hire at Mozilla as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. ZeroGravitas · 2010-02-18

    Submitted Symbol Server: How Adobe Could Address Crash Issues as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. sp332 · 2010-02-02

    Submitted Firefox Nightlies have out-of-process plugins by default (please help test) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. johns · 2009-06-16

    Submitted Electrolysis: Making Mozilla Faster and More Stable Using Multiple Processes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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