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Byte Rot
Personal blog · byterot.blogspot.co.ukprogrammingwebsystems
Byte Rot is a personal blog at byterot.blogspot.co.uk about programming, web and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts from Byte Rot, as shown by one comment, discuss the 'rule of most accessible' idea: approaching unfamiliar or complex entities from the most accessible angle one can understand. The comment quotes it without judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog on programming C#, REST, WCF, ASP.NET Web API and software architecture
What Hacker News says?
" in confrontation with entities that we encounter for the first time or do not have enough appreciation of their complexity, we approach from the most accessible angle we can understand. " http://byterot.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/rule-of-most-accessibl...
Comment linking /2015/09/rule-of-most-accessible-and-how-it-can-make-you-feel-better.html
on “What Happens Next Will Amaze You”Submitted API Layer and its responsibilities, a REST viewpoint as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI was exactly where you were. I felt I was solving problems that look almost trivial to me. Of course there are lots of hard distributed computing problems at the scale that Facebook and Google operate but not anyone is to work on them. I found scientific programming: i.e. using Machine Learning and related disciplines to solve hard AI problems. I can guarantee you might get frustrated by lack of success and hardshi…
Comment linking /2015/01/future-of-programming-rise-of-the-scientific-developer-bigdata-datascience-machine-learning-and-fall-of-the-craftsman.html
on “Ask HN: I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?”Submitted Reactive Cloud Actors with BeeHive: Getting started as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web APIs and n+1 problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CacheCow 0.5.0-alpha released for community review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Media type: how much can you cram into a single token? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How PayPal is helping Iranian government's internet censorship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I think coupling is ... as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reactive Cloud Actors with BeeHive 0.5, RabbitMQ and more as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OWIN and Katana challenges: blues of a library developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Add Caching ETags to your Web API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SuperBenchmarker - Apache Benchmark (ab.exe) on steroids as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance series: GUIDs vs. IDENTITY INT in RDBMS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance series: is thread contention bad? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How limitation can be source of goodness - NoSQL, REST and more as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Server-side TPL Async: Don't risk learning these lessons the hard way as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does REST's Client-Server mean now? as a story · 1 points
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