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Corey Goldberg
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Corey Goldberg's personal blog at coreygoldberg.blogspot.com covers programming and web. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Corey Goldberg's post on wolf-fence debugging, a method of halving the problem space to isolate a bug. Commenters cite it as a description of that technique across languages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2008/12/wolf-fence-debugging.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-06
What Hacker News says?
After a quick googling I found this explanation of wolf-fence debugging: http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2008/12/wolf-fence-debuggi... It stipulates that the state of Alaska has got exactly one wolf, so you build a fence across the middle of the state to find on which side wolf would howl, then subdivide the problem, etc... I'm assuming in your case the wolf got replace with a lion and Alaska with South Africa.
Comment linking /2008/12/wolf-fence-debugging.html
on “Sometimes the bug isn't in your code, it's in the CPU”Submitted Officially Introducing "SST" (Python Web Test Framework) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's apparently not very SEO'd. But it's a debugging technique. http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2008/12/wolf-fence-debuggi... It's universally applicable. I've done it in C, Scala, Go, Java, Haskell..everything. Perf-debugging wise - you basically remove parts of your computation and perform binary search to hone in on the parts that are on the critical path. I agree that a lot of Haskellers come off as "what's th…
Comment linking /2008/12/wolf-fence-debugging.html
on “Haskell error messages: come on”Submitted Web Load Testing from EC2 with Pylot as a story · 3 points
HN discussionStick with the black and white text! Make full use of LC_ env friends. Go with the merovingian matrix thing for theoretical python applications using pawk with neovim! (for diehard HN's, the cons text would be use the anonymous lambda functions) gui ide as a sql, Watch out, to much y = mx + b may trig. a generation revolution. blue oval : http://gist.github.com/Tsunamicom/b3b1f53720eb9f6cac42020b24... red oval : htt…
Comment linking /2013/01/python-matrix-in-your-terminal.html
on “Ask HN: Postgres vs. MySQL in 2023?”Submitted Pylot 1.2.0 released - python tool for web performance testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python - Generating Sparkline Graphs For Stock Pricing as a story · 1 points
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