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Daniel Compton
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Daniel Compton's personal blog at danielcompton.net covers programming and business. Since 2014, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “The Uber Bombshell About to Drop”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link it for posts on open source maintenance, such as 'Open Source Is Free As in Baby', the 2018 Clojure survey, and the 2017 Uber and Waymo case. Comments mostly cite or link these posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m Daniel Compton, a software developer living in New Zealand. I mostly write about Clojure, open source funding, and software development.
Most-linked posts?
- The Uber Bombshell About to Drop4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-03-13
- While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as in baby (2014)3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-03-24
- State of Clojure Survey 2018 Analysis3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-28
- What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-15
- Analysis of the State of Clojure 2016 comments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-10
- /apple-m1-displaylink-multiple-display2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-02
- Open Source Is Free as in Baby (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-30
What Hacker News says?
Consequently any decision to use such an API seems to require one first read and review the entire implementation of the API, otherwise you get the experience that NetFlix had. There's no getting around this, you or someone that you trust (not necessarily at your company) needs to read and review both the API, and implementation details for open source software that you use. Open source software isn't a hardware sto…
Comment linking /2014/11/19/dependencies
on “Node.js in Flame Graphs”Submitted The Uber Bombshell About to Drop as a story · 1089 points
HN discussionDaniel Compton: Open Source Is Free As in Baby: https://danielcompton.net/2014/11/19/dependencies > I think of someone releasing open source software as a gift to the world, not as claiming a responsibility to maintain it for you. Some projects do claim that responsibility, but it’s not automatically conferred just because someone released a project on GitHub. I think much more of the responsibility falls on the per…
Comment linking /2014/11/19/dependencies
on “It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)”Submitted Why Docker and CoreOS’ split was predictable as a story · 201 points
HN discussionhttps://danielcompton.net/2017/03/14/uber-bombshell
Comment linking /2017/03/14/uber-bombshell
on “Uber finds one allegedly stolen Waymo file on an employee’s personal device”Submitted State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis as a story · 185 points
HN discussionI believe this was it - https://danielcompton.net/2017/03/14/uber-bombshell
Comment linking /2017/03/14/uber-bombshell
on “Uber’s Anthony Levandowski Invokes Fifth Amendment Rights in Waymo Suit”Submitted What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud? as a story · 117 points
HN discussionAuthor of https://danielcompton.net/2017/03/14/uber-bombshell here. I thought the Bloomberg article was pretty favourable towards Uber and Levandowski too, especially some of their reporting on the lawsuit without context: > Levandowski defended Uber’s lidar technology as “clean”—that is, not the product of stolen design documents—and told the company’s engineers that he’d downloaded the files to work from home. The…
Comment linking /2017/03/14/uber-bombshell
on “Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures”Submitted Adding Context to CockroachDB’s Article “Your Database Should Work Like a CDN” as a story · 84 points
HN discussionYou could do 2x 4K displays with compression over a DisplayLink dock. Probably fine for UI stuff, maybe for video, not great for gaming. The newer 14" and 16" models would drive them natively (or 2x 6K + 1x 4K with the higher end SoC) but then it's not much of a fair comparison by price. The single external display limit is only on the basic "M1" processor and not any of the Pro/Max/Ultra followups. https://danielco…
Comment linking /apple-m1-displaylink-multiple-display
on “Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux”Submitted While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as in baby (2014) as a story · 84 points
HN discussionI love CockroachDB, but feel like this article was a bit misleading in it's claims. I started out writing a comment response, but it got so long that it turned into a blog post: https://danielcompton.net/2018/02/08/add-context-cockroachdb... .
Comment linking /2018/02/08/add-context-cockroachdb-databases-acting-like-cdns
on “Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs”Submitted Clojure Survey 2015 Analysis as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSometimes it seems as if Cognitect just doesn't want people to use Clojure. It's like they looked at the results from the survey[0], created a tool that appears to address some of the main gripes that people have, and then proceeded to say "screw you" to all of the people that use Clojure commercially and may actually pay for Datomic... [0]: https://danielcompton.net/2018/03/28/clojure-survey-2018
Comment linking /2018/03/28/clojure-survey-2018
on “Clojure REBL [video]”Submitted Penny wise and cloud foolish as a story · 59 points
HN discussionAuthor changed the post title I think, the link is now dead. http://danielcompton.net still shows the article in first position on his blog.
Comment linking /
on “Why Docker and CoreOS’ split was predictable”Submitted State of Clojure Survey 2018 Analysis as a story · 24 points
HN discussionClick here if you get an 404: http://danielcompton.net/2014/12/02/modular-integrated-docke...
Comment linking /2014/12/02/modular-integrated-docker-coreos%20(daniel%20compton's%20conflicted%20copy%202014-12-03)
on “Why Docker and CoreOS’ split was predictable”Submitted Open source is not a hardware store as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYou quoted two paragraphs, none of which mentioned either Google missing backups, or unisupers account being deleted. I'm fact, what you quoted aligns perfectly with what I've been suggesting the whole time. You're making a strong claim, I'm asking you to source it specifically. Instead you're taking a statement from which you can draw multiple conclusions, and picking one (that has been contradicted repeatedly) and…
Comment linking /google-cloud-unisuper
on “Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)”Submitted Understanding DisplayLink, multiple displays, and M1 Macs as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> There are such things as USB monitors which actually take pixel data over the USB protocol DisplayLink. It caught on for a while at least, especially in the case of some dock products that would output to a more conventional display interface but were USB DisplayLink adapters themselves. You’ll see tons of forum and Reddit posts about suboptimal CPU load and performance related to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
Comment linking /apple-m1-displaylink-multiple-display
on “Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022)”Submitted State of Clojure Survey 2018 Analysis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've written a blog post summarising the changes here: https://danielcompton.net/2016/11/29/guide-to-datomic-licens... . In a nutshell: * No limits on process count * Datomic Pro Starter is now limited to one year of usage, then you need to pay $5,000 for Datomic Pro * Riak, Couchbase, and Infinispan are now legacy storage and only available through Datomic Enterprise.
Comment linking /2016/11/29/guide-to-datomic-licensing-changes
on “Datomic Update: Client API, Unlimited Peers, Enterprise Edition, and More”Submitted Not all hurricanes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's my personal list for those interested, inspired by the Data Science Masters: http://danielcompton.net/2014/03/23/data-science-curriculum
Comment linking /2014/03/23/data-science-curriculum
on “The Open Source Data Science Masters”Submitted Why Heart of Clojure Was Special as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere were several stories that broke over the last couple of weeks. It started with Uber and the travel ban. I don't want to get too into it so you can read about it here: ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/business/delete-uber.html ). Then there were several sexual harassment claims that were handled poorly. They can be read here: ( https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e... , https://medium…
Comment linking /2017/03/14/uber-bombshell
on “Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?”Submitted Analysis of the 2016 State of Clojure Survey as a story · 3 points
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