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blog.safaribooksonline.com is the company blog at blog.safaribooksonline.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2011, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 129 times, most often “Analyze Data With MongoDB and Go”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Engineering and product blog of Safari Books Online, with posts on JavaScript on hardware, D3.js visualisation tutorials, decoupling Rails apps, and app and site announcements.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Analyze Data With MongoDB and Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-24
- Welcome to the new Safari2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-08
- JavaScript Powered Arduino with Johnny-Five2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-16
What Hacker News says?
I think JavaScript might be most successful on Arduino for the same reason - it's a platform with which most tinkerers are familiar. http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/07/16/javascript-powe...
Comment linking /2013/07/16/javascript-powered-arduino-with-johnny-five/
on “JavaScript right on the hardware”Submitted High-Performance Log Parsing in Haskell: Part One as a story · 61 points
HN discussionThe interface is being redone. I don't know how they are planning to cut-over though: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/ Edited: They just announced how the cutover will work: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2014/07/08/new-safari/
Comment linking /2014/07/08/new-safari/
on “Kindle Unlimited”Submitted Building Secure Node.js Applications as a story · 61 points
HN discussionFor me combing the best parts of bash and ipython is the way to go. Up to now this seems more comfortable to me than using subprocess in python or this haskell aproach which needs to be aware of every programme output to give what it promises. You can easily copy big parts of existing bash scripts and e.g. add error handling in the python way :) Even I think for loops/list comprehensions are betten than the strange…
Comment linking /2014/02/12/using-shell-commands-effectively-ipython/
on “Use Haskell for shell scripting”Submitted File IO in Rust as a story · 59 points
HN discussionThis tutorial is not bad at all: Building Responsive Visualizations with D3.js [1] [1]: https://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2014/02/17/building-respo...
Comment linking /2014/02/17/building-responsible-visualizations-d3-js/
on “Awesome D3”Submitted Safari in a Nutshell: A Two-Day Anniversary Sale ($0.545/day) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionA counter-example is Safari To Go - Safari Book Online's iPad app, which they withdrew due to bad review: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2010/11/24/ipad-app-safari... Most people agreed that PhoneGap was the wrong framework. It's not that PhoneGap is intrinsically bad - it is not - but that it is not for every task, and more likely, it is not good for most tasks that are more than a short load-lookup-leave cycle.
Comment linking /2010/11/24/ipad-app-safari-to-go-update-november-24-2010/
on “How Dead is WebOS?”Submitted NaNoGenMo 2014: A procedurally generated mysterious codex as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThey used PhoneGap, in fact it was Nitobi that created the app. http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2010/10/18/an-update-on-ou...
Comment linking /2010/10/18/an-update-on-our-ipad-app-safari-to-go/
on “Ask HN: Best way to write an app for both Android and iOS?”Submitted Welcome to the new Safari as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHere's a follow-up article by the same author on Network Communication and Serialization in Rust: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2014/01/28/network-communi...
Comment linking /2014/01/28/network-communication-serialization-rust/
on “File IO in Rust”Submitted Traits: How Scala Tames Multiple Inheritance as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBy coincidence, I was reading this article just yesterday: https://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/10/02/decoupling-bac...
Comment linking /2013/10/02/decoupling-backbone-applications-with-pubsub/
on “Using events to decouple Rails applications”Submitted Writing Tests and Stomping Bugs in AngularJS as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neo4j 2.0: A Giant Leap For Graphkind as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding iOS 7 AirDrop Support to Your App as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living with Celiac: An engineer’s story as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intro to R with Data Visualization as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Powered Arduino with Johnny-Five as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 13 Steps to AngularJS Modularization as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Object Oriented Programming in R: Part 2, S4 Objects as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello SBT: An Easy Start with the Simple Build Tool as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why should I use Kraken? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Responsive Visualizations with D3.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted D3.js with LiveScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reporting Server-Side Progress to Web Pages with SignalR as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Network Communication and Serialization in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Object-Oriented Programming in R: Part 1, S3 Objects as a story · 3 points
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