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crazybob.org is a personal blog at blog.crazybob.org about programming and systems. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.

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2011–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

Linked for a 2007 post quoting Gavin King on ActiveRecord, cited in a thread about Bob Lee's death. The other comment is an unrelated Java lambdas thread that links a Brian Goetz talk, not this 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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is a talk by Brian Goetz about the design of Java 8's lambdas: http://parleys.com/play/5251c164e4b0a43ac1212459/about A lot of thought has been put into that, and I think the result is both elegant and at the same time integrates beautifully with legacy code. Perhaps most importantly, a lot of existing libraries will automatically support lambdas naturally without them ever being designed for lambdas and withou…

    Comment linking /2006/10/java-closure-spectrum.html

    on “Java SE 8 Proposed Final Draft Specification — Draft 1”
  2. Submitted The truth about Android & iOS UI performance as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  3. Did some googling today, sorry for my comment! (But mine was one of the nicer ones ;-) "Obie is one of those Ruby developers with no programming experience" http://blog.crazybob.org/2007/09/gavin-king-on-activerecord....

    Comment linking /2007/09/gavin-king-on-activerecord.html?m=0

    on “Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed to Death in SF”

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