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benno.id.au
Personal blog · benno.id.au/blogprogramming
benno.id.au is a personal blog at benno.id.au about programming. Since 2007, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Distrusting git”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog for posts on build systems, Node.js error handling, and Android on the Neo 1973 phone. One commenter calls the Node.js exceptions post a good explanation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Distrusting git3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-01
- Node.js exceptions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-28
- Why we have to wait for Android on the Neo 19732 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-11-22
- /blog/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-11-22
What Hacker News says?
http://benno.id.au/blog/2008/06/06/memoize-build-framework
Comment linking /blog/2008/06/06/memoize-build-framework
on “"I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems."”Submitted Distrusting git as a story · 201 points
HN discussionThe error that is thrown towards the end of this example should probably be passed back to the callback as an argument (e.g. callback(error, result)) instead. Throwing errors in an asynchronous context can have messy results for trying to handle them. http://benno.id.au/blog/2011/08/08/nodejs-exceptions is a good explanation.
Comment linking /blog/2011/08/08/nodejs-exceptions
on “Your first Node.js module”Submitted Distrusting git as a story · 8 points
HN discussionNo, ssh wasn't installed, yes, I can install it again without rooting Android, it's a matter of copying the binary to a directory with executable permissions and running it using at terminal. f you downloaded some ssh "app" from Play you probably just downloaded a cute interface to the real ssh--which must place nice with the Google proprietary JVM in order to work. I didn't need an SSH app, and no, Dalvik is not pr…
Comment linking /blog/2007/11/13/android-native-apps
on “The PC’s Death Might Also Mean the Web’s Demise”Submitted Distrusting Git as a story · 7 points
HN discussionInteresting to note is that the author's experiences are with the UK branch of T-Mobile's customer service, which was likely not as well informed, integrated, or organized as the US division due to locality of Google. However, as a semi-loyal T-Mobile customer myself, I have to agree that the 'buzz generation' and training of local store reps are sub-par for the G1. None of my local T-Mobile stores had Google reps e…
Comment linking /blog/
on “The user experience failure of the T-Mobile G1 Android”Submitted Why we have to wait for Android on the Neo 1973 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt's a shame OpenMoko didn't pick a slightly more recent ARM chip, or it would already be running Android: http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973
Comment linking /blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973
on “An Open-Source Cellphone (Tinkerers, Have a Ball)”Submitted Inversion of Meaning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis guy has been doing some very nice hacking on Android, and writing about it: http://benno.id.au/blog/
Comment linking /blog/
on “Why we have to wait for Android on the Neo 1973”Submitted Node.js exceptions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A better namedtuple for Python as a story · 2 points
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