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Curtis Autery
Personal blog · cautery.blogspot.commathprogramming
Curtis Autery writes Medicine for the Sky, a personal blog at cautery.blogspot.com about math and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a post on Perl, including a concise one-liner example. The comment cites it to illustrate quick Perl one-liners and argues Perl is unsuitable for maintainable code.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Curtis Autery's ramblings.
Most-linked posts?
- /2010/09/concise-perl.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-07
What Hacker News says?
That was beautiful. It puts my prime number elevator thing [1] to shame. [1] http://cautery.blogspot.com/2012/05/animated-prime-number-ma...
Comment linking /2012/05/animated-prime-number-machine.html
on “Animated Factorisation Diagrams”Submitted Compass and straightedge geometry meets HTML5 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI concur with all the Kudos to Jeremy, this is another very nice piece. Bezier curves show up in some unexpected places. I was pretty taken aback when I traced through Java's 2D library [1] and saw that it uses them for circles instead of doing the more processor-intensive sin/cos or r^2 = x^2 + y^2 math. [1] - http://cautery.blogspot.com/2010/09/bezier-curves-as-ellipse...
Comment linking /2010/09/bezier-curves-as-ellipses.html
on “Bezier Curves and Picasso”Submitted Exploring some of the math in HTML5 context transforms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Columbus, OH Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full stack startup staples Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-autery-5a094a14b/ Email: ceautery@gmail.com I'm looking to work with a progressive organization, in a role that has mentoring and community outreach baked into it. I've been a software writer since 2003, in companies ranging from an enterprise with 17,000 employees, to a s…
Comment linking /2008/11/how-to-speak-in-public-heart-attack.html
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)”Submitted HTML5 compass and straightedge pentagon examples as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> http://cautery.blogspot.com/2010/09/concise-perl.html This illustrates the use of Perl in quick one-liners and helps understand why Perl isn't suitable for writing maintainable code. I've seen far too many cases of (and done it myself too often) assumptions like "there's no other tags ending in 'nk'" and "I can parse this XML/HTML content with simple regexps" in the quick & dirty code that is typical Perl (it work…
Comment linking /2010/09/concise-perl.html
on “Why I still love Perl”Submitted IPhone web app for text input via chorded screen touches as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's still difficult to beat perl in a production Unix environment to fix a hot issue, especially if you know your way around regular expressions. When I hear comments like "now you have two problems", or "it's harder to read than to write", or references to the P in LAMP being Python or PHP, I chuckle to myself. Here's an example of how I use perl, off the cuff, in day to day production life: http://cautery.blogspo…
Comment linking /2010/09/concise-perl.html
on “Why I still love Perl”I found that to be a pretty nice writeup, a little more accessible for the curious layman than a pair of blog entries I wrote on RSA ( http://cautery.blogspot.com/2012/06/rsa-encryption-and-other... ) and Elgamal ( http://cautery.blogspot.com/2012/07/encryption-part-2-elgama... ) Encryption topics were the big wake-up call for me regarding not relying on Wikipedia for math/tech info. When I started the above blog po…
Comment linking /2012/07/encryption-part-2-elgamal-and-discrete.html
on “From 0 to cryptography”Adding an HTML5 Pacman widget to function as my blog's header. Eat all the text, new text pops in. - http://cautery.blogspot.com/
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on right now?”Thanks for all the views. As I mention in the comments in this blog entry, I've got a better version of the engine hiding at the very bottom of http://cautery.blogspot.com/2012/06/four-ways-to-construct-p...
Comment linking /2012/06/four-ways-to-construct-pentagon.html
on “Compass and straightedge geometry meets HTML5”Pufftygraph [1] I wrote a Spirograph clone that worked on an iPhone as a Christmas present for my 6 year old, mainly because back then I couldn't find any existing clones where you could drag the gears around to draw, and I thought it would be a fun coding exercise. It got me over the line in a job interview at the first startup I worked for. Spirographs and toy web apps had nothing to do with the job, but it was a…
Comment linking /2012/12/pufftygraph-html5-spirograph-with-touch.html
on “Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?”