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corbinsimpson.com
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corbinsimpson.com is a personal blog at corbinsimpson.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Globe is Round”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on Twitter's OAuth rollout, tweeting from Python, and a Twisted port of a Gevent long-polling pusher. The comments only cite or link them, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Globe is Round3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-27
What Hacker News says?
I fear that it's because we don't know how to make globes. [0] [0] https://corbinsimpson.com/words/globe.html
Comment linking /words/globe.html
on “Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil”Submitted "Trickle" attack on Minecraft servers, or Don't Use Thread-Per-Connection as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI went ahead and ported the pusher to Twisted, as a simple exercise; see https://github.com/MostAwesomeDude/wsgi_longpolling/blob/mas... for code. Edit: And an explanatory blog post is at http://corbinsimpson.com/entry/summertime for those readers not well-versed in Twisted.
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on “Gevent, Long-Polling & You”Submitted Poison Was the Cure (Twisted on Heroku) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe way you have defined "developer", you have defined an idiot. An unethical, incompetent idiot. Our purpose, as computer engineers, is to convince piles of carefully-cooked rocks ("computers") to do a very specific thing repeatedly ("computing"). Since humans are terrible at understanding specificity, we design languages and abstractions that help us encode our goals into computer-readable codes. At no point is "b…
Comment linking /words/globe.html
on “Developers Are Not Idiots”Submitted The Globe is Round as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI went back into history, to find my blog post about how to tweet from Python ( http://corbinsimpson.com/entry/the-bird-is-the-word ) and confirmed that Twitter started rolling out OAuth in July 2010. That means that they have given xAuth apps the better part of a year to transition, when the original plan was to give them only a month or so. My sympathy is limited towards Twitter app developers -- you were warned a…
Comment linking /entry/the-bird-is-the-word
on “Devil’s advocate on Twitter’s OAuth change”Submitted Monte Compiler Ramble as a story · 2 points
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