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Cary Millsap
Personal blog · carymillsap.blogspot.comprogrammingsystems
Cary Millsap's personal blog at carymillsap.blogspot.com covers programming and systems. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Profiling with My Boy (2009)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cary Millsap's posts on learning the underlying axioms and rules rigorously, linked in threads on gifted students who struggle and on users who get things wrong.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Profiling with My Boy (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-26
- The Fundamental Challenge of Computer System Performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-02
What Hacker News says?
This is really how to fix this: http://carymillsap.blogspot.com/2011/01/axiomatic-approach-t... I was an undergrad with Cary, and he got A's, I got B's with the odd C and this is exactly why. Until I took the Discrete Math course ( w/ the Eggers book - which is fantastic ) , I was floundering. I knew what the rules were, roughly, but I didn't KNOW know them. I'm not name-dropping Cary. It's just a coincidence, but I…
Comment linking /2011/01/axiomatic-approach-to-algebra-and-other.html
on “Curse Of The Gifted (2000)”Submitted Teaching code optimization to 11-year-old son. as a story · 47 points
HN discussionPeople don't learn basic rigor/debugging/"go over it one more time." You know that voice of performance anxiety that screams in your head when you're in it up to your neck? They haven't learned to quiet it yet. And some probably just gave their last full measure of devotion somewhere along the way; they just couldn't for some inscrutable reason. I learned it less than Cary did. Every time I read this, I calculate wh…
Comment linking /2011/01/axiomatic-approach-to-algebra-and-other.html
on “If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (2011)”Submitted Profiling with My Boy (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching code optimization to 11-year-old son (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fundamental Challenge of Computer System Performance (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fundamental Challenge of Computer System Performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NoSQL and Oracle, Sex and Marriage as a story · 1 points
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