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cartesian product ... stuff about computing mostly is a personal blog at cartesianproduct.wordpress.com about programming and math. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 70 times, most often “Trade offs between memory, disk and CPU power”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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70mentions?
10HN people?
2011–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 21 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on the end of Dennard scaling, which one commenter says has replaced Moore's law as the driver of faster chips, and on agile software projects.

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Stuff about computing...mostly

Most-linked posts?

  1. Trade offs between memory, disk and CPU power
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Unfortunately, it's not Moore's law that make the chips run faster, but Denard's scaling and that seems to no longer work. [0][1] [0] http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/COURSE/READING/LOWP/Boh07... [1] https://cartesianproduct.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/the-end-of...

    Comment linking /2013/04/15/the-end-of-dennard-scaling/

    on “How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law”
  2. Submitted Game of Life in Scratch as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  3. The essay and its followup [1] are sadly lacking in specifics. "Agile" is an umbrella term that encompasses everything from small, flexible teams using rigorous engineering practices and collaborating closely with product management; to large, monolithic organizations slapping the word "agile" on the door, ditching documentation and testing, but not actually changing any of their dysfunctional habits. [2] The former…

    Comment linking /2013/05/26/a-bit-more-on-universal-credit-and-agile/

    on “Failure looms for "world’s biggest agile project", UK welfare payment system”
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