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iamluminousmen
Personal blog · luminousmen.com/postprogrammingdataai
iamluminousmen is a personal blog at luminousmen.com about programming, data and ai. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 81 times, most often “Black for Python is bad for readability”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on Python exception chaining (the 'from' clause in raise statements) and on code review practice. The comments are a related-post link and a remark on code review debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
helping robots conquer the earth and trying not to increase entropy using Python, Data Engineering, Machine Learning
Most-linked posts?
- Black for Python is bad for readability3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-02
- Asynchronous Programming. Await the Future2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-17
- Asynchronous programming. Blocking I/O and non-blocking I/O2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-06
- Thoughts on (Micro)Services2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-14
- __context__ vs. __cause__ attributes in exception handling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-26
- AWS Lambda Abuse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-05
What Hacker News says?
Related: https://luminousmen.com/post/context-vs-cause-attributes-in-...
Comment linking /post/context-vs-cause-attributes-in-exception-handling
on “Unravelling `from` for `Raise` Statements”Submitted Asynchronous programming and cooperative multitasking as a story · 97 points
HN discussionFrom what I've seen so far, people love debating code style. The main problem is that those programmers mostly care about superficial syntax and don't actually care about code readability or design. They just go for the lowest hanging fruit and criticise variable naming or whitespace because it is easy; they don't talk about the object graph or the event lifecycle of the program, because that's hard. A very common t…
Comment linking /post/my-unpopular-opinion-about-black-code-formatter
on “The Code Review Pyramid”Submitted The Central Limit Theorem and Sampling as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Interview Questions – Senior as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes 101 as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Static Analysis Tools as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spark tips. Don't collect data on driver as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Lambda Abuse as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Black for Python is bad for readability as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are the Best Software Engineering Principles? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to Pyspark Join Types as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asynchronous Programming. Await the Future as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Science. Correlation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Passive-aggressive explanation of data science vs. machine learning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to not leap in time using Python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spark History Server and monitoring jobs performance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Data File Formats as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Science. Bayes Theorem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Science. Probability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Concurrency and parallelism are two different things as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are the Best Software Engineering Principles? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optional arguments MUST use keywords (Python3) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who is team lead? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asynchronous programming. Blocking I/O and non-blocking I/O as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote AWS Certification Exam as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dive into Spark Memory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Management Skills as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Data – Big Privacy Hole as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse as a story · 2 points
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