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clipperhouse.com
Personal blog · clipperhouse.com · on HN as mwshermanprogrammingbusiness
clipperhouse.com is a personal blog at clipperhouse.com about programming and business. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 184 times, most often “Suspension of disbelief”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Suspension of disbelief2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-29
- Allocations Are a Dependency2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-10
What Hacker News says?
CDNs are essentially identical (technologically and economically) to what Netflix bought from Comcast: http://clipperhouse.com/2014/05/07/what-netflix-bought-from-... To my mind, I can’t imagine a rule that describes a fast lane that doesn’t also describe a CDN.
Comment linking /2014/05/07/what-netflix-bought-from-comcast-is-a-cdn/
on “FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet”Submitted A career decision influenced by Nassim Taleb as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI speculated recently that TypeScript might _de facto_ help V8 optimizations, and the post seems to confirm that. https://clipperhouse.com/does-typescript-make-for-more-perfo...
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on “Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast”Submitted C# almost has implicit interfaces as a story · 53 points
HN discussionHere’s the problem: what AT&T is doing does not violate any technical definition of net neutrality, unless we ad hoc append new parts to it. This is the core problem of net neutrality arguments, which it is often defined as ‘I know it when I see it’. It amounts to principles, but if we are going to have an enforceable law, we need to do better than that. AT&T is not offering any priority to any bits here. Nothing is…
Comment linking /2008/06/03/the-long-game-on-metered-pricing-free-shipping/
on “VC Pitches in a Year or Two”Submitted California says the iPhone costs $599 as a story · 48 points
HN discussionHere’s a way to write tests next to the code: https://clipperhouse.com/go-test-csharp/ (Whether I recommend it, not sure! I did it and then undid it, with suspicion that tests were taking longer due to, perhaps, worse caching of build artifacts.)
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on “Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements”Submitted Amazon's core competency? Pricing. as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThe third part of my post here [1] is that progress in security will more likely come from cheap tools than expensive humans. Pardon the self-reference of course. :) [1] http://clipperhouse.com/2015/04/04/liquidity-open-source-and...
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on “How Heartbleed could've been found”Submitted Javascript is now strategic for Microsoft as a story · 28 points
HN discussionCorrect, these are semantically different. You’ve described it well. The ORM would be incorrect if it did not generate the SQL that it did. Part of the issue is confusing object data with metadata. The id is an implementation detail of the data store – metadata. What the user is trying to do here is “talk database” and “talk model” at the same time. Which is a perfectly good argument against an ORM. But one should c…
Comment linking /2012/02/29/suspension-of-disbelief/
on “Lessons learned defying Joel Spolsky with Django”Submitted Making good programmers feel like bad programmers as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThey are foreseeable. This sort of regulation ensures that only big players (incumbents) will play, because it tilts advantage to those with better lobbyists. http://clipperhouse.com/2010/02/22/net-neutrality-and-preser...
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on “FCC chairman tips his hand on net neutrality”Submitted Think of solid-state drives as multi-core storage as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI suspect that Web Components will evolve this way as well, declarative language used imperatively. http://clipperhouse.com/2014/03/31/web-components-have-we-no...
Comment linking /2014/03/31/web-components-have-we-not-been-here-before/
on “What if Ansible used XML for configuration management?”Submitted Programmers and “productivity” as a story · 18 points
HN discussionComcast is supporting having their competitors being bound by net neutrality. Comcast already is, due to the terms of the NBC merger. So they want their competitors to “suffer” similarly. And they don’t want mobile to impinge on the fixed-line market, so they support NN in mobile, too. A good analogy is WalMart supporting a minimum wage. They support it because it hurts their competitors (local Mom & Pops) more. [1]…
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on “Comcast Comments on FCC's Proposed Rules”Submitted The Googlebot runs Javascript as a story · 17 points
HN discussionIncreased regulation means that would-be network providers need lawyers and lobbyists to compete. I can't get FIOS on my block in Manhattan even though I can see Verizon HQ from my window. I'd like to give them my money and they'd like to take it, but they haven't gotten over the regulatory hurdles to run a fiber. I am sure a small guy would love to do the same but there's no way they can get over those hurdles, if…
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on “The FCC puts broadband under political control”Submitted The country club revolt (aka Operation Chokehold) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Verizon’s network better, or is it simply untested? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please don’t write “efficient” CSS as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted IE6 users and status-conscious creative directors as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if ‘source code’ were a serialized syntax tree? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted {less} CSS for .Net as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imagining version control for APIs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two, billion-dollar UI mistakes in Windows 8 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted A thought experiment: serial vs parallel as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is Apple treading water with the Apple TV? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Know your guarantees, Go edition as a story · 6 points
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