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blog.factual.com is the company blog at blog.factual.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2010, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Introducing Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’”. 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 Factual's blog for its post introducing Drake, a 'make for data' tool for data processing workflows. Comments mostly cite it as a related tool rather than discuss the writing.
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?
- Introducing Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-01-24
- Docker, Mesos, Marathon, and the End of Pets3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-04
What Hacker News says?
'Drake' for that use was on here too, not too long ago. http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for...
Comment linking /introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
on “Why Use Make”Submitted Introducing Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’ as a story · 197 points
HN discussionDrake was just released, it's a make replacement specifically for data processing and seems to have some nice features. http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for...
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on “Why Use Make”Submitted Clojure on Hadoop: A New Hope as a story · 128 points
HN discussionInteresting... here is a tool, which is also going twoards data oriented approach. "Drake - a kind of make for data" http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for...
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on “Q – A Data Language”Submitted Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers as a story · 105 points
HN discussionYou might be interested in Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’. http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for...
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on “Why Use Make? (2013)”Submitted Open-Source Clojure Library for Geospatial Information as a story · 82 points
HN discussionRight on the same HN homepage: http://blog.factual.com/docker-mesos-marathon-and-the-end-of...
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on “Ask HN: How do you version control your microservices?”Submitted Docker, Mesos, Marathon, and the End of Pets as a story · 64 points
HN discussionLast month, the similar 'memoize' came up: https://github.com/kgaughan/memoize.py ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356433 ) Also another entrant in the genre is 'Drake': http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5110921 )
Comment linking /introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
on “Sake: like make, but with shell scripts”Submitted Principles for Applying Machine Learning Techniques as a story · 57 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wisdom of Crowds: Using Ensembles for Machine Learning as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nfu: Command-line Numeric Fu as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python, Clojure, Haskell: Factual Releases Drivers That Matter as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Riffle: a high-performance write-once key/value storage engine for Clojure as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsible Vacation Policy as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flotsam: Insanely Fast Floating-Point Number Serialization for Java, Javascript as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief Tour of Factual’s Machine Learning Pipeline as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extend Drake (“Make for data”) with a Simple Clojure Project as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Faster API Stack Using Node.js as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advice I’d Send Myself Before Starting My Machine Learning Internship at Factual as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby driver released for Factual's data platform as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted If It Walks Like an Entrepreneur... as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Factual’s API: A Good Fit for Node as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Clojure to Generate Java to Reimplement Clojure as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Profiling Hadoop Jobs with Riemann as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docker, Mesos, Marathon, and the End of Pets as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Drake (“Make for Data”) Feature: Asynchronous Step Execution as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drake: you can use it now as a story · 4 points
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