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Christian Sunesson

Personal blog · noss.github.ioprogrammingsystems

Christian Sunesson's personal blog at noss.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link a 2009 post on reverse-engineering Oracle's database protocol, which one commenter cites for Oracle's copyrighted poem in its login handshake. Another comment mentions database wire protocols without linking the blog.

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?

  1. /2009/04/28/reverse-engineering-oracle-protocol.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. pritambaral · 2019-01-10
    > I've never seen a SQL driver and wire protocol that was not awful in some way. Have you seen the PostgreSQL wire protocol[1]? I recently built a logical replication client driver for a project and found the protocol to be excellent. After looking at the documentation, I'm no longer limited to languages that have drivers for Pg, because I know how easy it'd be for me to just write one. Just because some SQL drivers…

    Comment linking /2009/04/28/reverse-engineering-oracle-protocol.html

    on “Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility”
  2. tosh · 2013-05-14

    Submitted Writing unit tests is reinventing functional programming (2009) as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  3. grumpydba · 2018-06-13
    MSSQL server protocol is documented and failover is handled. Protocol are usually versioned, or the initial handshake allows client/server capabilities negociation. Oracle has copyrighted a poem that the clients needs to send to make sure reverse engineered drivers are not possible: https://noss.github.io/2009/04/28/reverse-engineering-oracle... Business as usual for Oracle and their horrible ethics...

    Comment linking /2009/04/28/reverse-engineering-oracle-protocol.html

    on “Usql: v0.7.0 released”

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