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Dare Obasanjo

Personal blog · 25hoursaday.com/weblogprogrammingwebbusiness

Dare Obasanjo's personal blog at 25hoursaday.com covers programming, web and business. Since 2007, 71 different Hacker News readers have linked it 173 times, most often “Why are Amazon, Facebook and Yahoo copying Microsoft's stack ranking system?”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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173mentions?
3recommend?
71HN people?
2007–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 59 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Weblog of a Microsoft program manager, cited for posts on REST and SOAP, Java versus C#, and running services on EC2 and S3 with scaling and uptime.

Recommended for · 3 comments
Called an "interesting follow up" on scaling, a piece to "have a read" on EC2 and S3, and the author one to "check him out".

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why are Amazon, Facebook and Yahoo copying Microsoft's stack ranking system?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-11
  2. Amazon EC2 + S3 Doesn't Cut it for Real Applications
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-07-08
  3. Paul Graham, Changing the World and "Built to Flip" Startups
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-03
  4. Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast (2016)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-11
  5. Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: Scaling Google for Every User
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-06-27
  6. REST API: Invent Media Types, Not Protocols and Understand the Importance of Hyperlinks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-10-24
  7. /weblog/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-10-14
  8. Two Cardinal Sins of REST API Design: Lessons you can Learn from the NewsGator REST API
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-06-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. jamesbritt · 2012-11-01
    Possibly related (from 2005): "SOA, AJAX and REST: The Software Industry Devolves into the Fashion Industry" http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=018ea5...

    Comment linking /weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=018ea507-4a62-4493-b01b-321e3672d725

    on “Programming is a Pop Culture”
  2. nickmain · 2013-11-11

    Submitted Why are Amazon, Facebook and Yahoo copying Microsoft's stack ranking system? as a story · 200 points

    HN discussion
  3. iso8859-1 · 2015-09-10
    See http://www.25hoursaday.com/CsharpVsJava.html#assemblies (and the rest of that page) and http://stackoverflow.com/q/90578/309483

    Comment linking /CsharpVsJava.html

    on “Java 9: The State of the Module System”
  4. fogus · 2010-08-27

    Submitted How the engineer driven culture at Google damaged Wave as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  5. TomOfTTB · 2010-10-15
    I actually like your terminology more but I've generally heard the term Hi-REST and Low-REST in this context http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0df3b4...

    Comment linking /weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0df3b480-0ea2-4b2e-8414-a0b67309dceb

    on “REST in peace, SOAP”
  6. Anon84 · 2008-07-14

    Submitted Project Cassandra: Facebook's Open Source Alternative to Google BigTable as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion
  7. aaronbrethorst · 2010-03-03
    Dare Obasanjo, a Program Manager at Microsoft and son of the former President of Nigeria [1], has run into this same issue on his (ahem, non-notable) blog: " [I]t irritates me that I have a Wikipedia entry with a giant banner that claims I'm lying about my parenthood " [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo [2] http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/03/13/WikipediaWhosYo...

    Comment linking /weblog/2007/03/13/WikipediaWhosYourDaddy.aspx

    on “Father of the moderm tiling WMs proposed for deletion in Wikipedia. ”
  8. BarkMore · 2011-01-30

    Submitted Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  9. paul · 2008-08-15
    Exactly right. The dogma that develops around these kinds of things is so weird. Update: Here is a good example of silly REST dogma: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/06/10/TwoCardinalSins... (since a lot of people don't seem to understand that REST isn't the same as HTTP, but more like a religion layered on top of HTTP).

    Comment linking /weblog/2008/06/10/TwoCardinalSinsOfRESTAPIDesignLessonsYouCanLearnFromTheNewsGatorRESTAPI.aspx

    on “REST, I just don't get it”
  10. baha_man · 2008-08-17

    Submitted Explaining REST to Damien Katz as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  11. seanlinmt · 2011-01-29
    Here's a more exhaustive comparison of Java and C#. http://www.25hoursaday.com/CsharpVsJava.html

    Comment linking /CsharpVsJava.html

    on “Java and C# "Comparison"”
  12. Anon84 · 2009-10-29

    Submitted Mike Shroepfer on Engineering at Scale at Facebook as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  13. piers · 2007-09-19Recommends
    I've not used it, but have a read of this: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/07/04/AmazonEC2S3Does...

    Comment linking /weblog/2007/07/04/AmazonEC2S3DoesntCutItForRealApplications.aspx

    on “Ask yc.news: Opinions on EC2?”
  14. Anon84 · 2008-08-03

    Submitted Paul Graham, Changing the World and "Built to Flip" Startups as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  15. petercooper · 2008-07-09
    This piece mentions "No manual intervention" and backs that up with some reasons why Google supposedly doesn't have any manual intervention in the ordering of search results. If that's true, then does that mean the eval.google.com "secret" back-end application supposedly used by teams of moderators to manipulate search results was a fabrication or just not under the principle of "manual intervention"? Or, do activit…

    Comment linking /weblog/2007/06/26/GoogleScalabilityConferenceTripReportScalingGoogleForEveryUser.aspx

    on “Introduction to Google Ranking ”
  16. Anon84 · 2010-03-29

    Submitted The NoSQL Debate: Automatic vs. Manual Transmission as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  17. dood · 2007-07-30
    In case you missed it, check the comments in this link [ http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/CommentView.aspx?guid=f8e6... ], discussed here [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33093 ]. The suggestion is to constantly write db logs from EC2 to S3 instead of nightly backup, so that in the event of a crash you're only likely to lose minutes worth of data. Also note that you can restart instances with no loss of data.…

    Comment linking /weblog/CommentView.aspx?guid=f8e678cc-045a-4316-917d-21b6754741ba

    on “Deploying on EC2 + S3”
  18. Anon84 · 2008-09-19

    Submitted The Problem with Every Implementation of a "Forgot Your Password?" Feature as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  19. iamelgringo · 2007-12-01Recommends
    Interesting follow up here: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=067a2e... Even Big Co.'s like Microsoft and the GOOG have scalability issues.

    Comment linking /weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=067a2eb8-85c0-4886-b35f-f32b1a46eab9

    on “Don't scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart”
  20. aaronbrethorst · 2012-07-15

    Submitted Some Thoughts on App.net as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  21. smoody · 2008-10-25
    There was a link to an article posted yesterday or the day before on HN that attempted to interpret the original article. Here's the link: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/10/24/RESTAPIDesignIn... I have to admit it's still a bit confusing to me. However, look at this snippet extracted from a comment by the author of the article you provided: "A truly RESTful API looks like hypertext. Every addressable unit of…

    Comment linking /weblog/2008/10/24/RESTAPIDesignInventMediaTypesNotProtocolsAndUnderstandTheImportanceOfHyperlinks.aspx

    on “Father of HTTP and REST: REST APIs must be hypertext-driven”
  22. Anon84 · 2009-05-15

    Submitted Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  23. pasbesoin · 2009-06-04
    Dare's blog is still up and reachable: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/ but the particular link provided by the parent is rerouting to the obnoxious front page at rotten.com, which some may consider NSFW. The same behavior is observed when trying to access the post from the link on the front page of Dare's blog. Because of this, I'm flagging this submission. Maybe Dare can get his blog straightened out; but in the…

    Comment linking /weblog/

    on “Developers on Google Wave”
  24. Anon84 · 2009-09-27

    Submitted Duct Tape Programmers and the Culture of Complexity in Software Projects as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  25. nanijoe · 2007-10-14Recommends
    Interesting tidbit here..The Nigerian president's son works for Microsoft. He's also a pretty prominent blogger..Check him out here. http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/

    Comment linking /weblog/

    on “Nigeria denies Bill Gates visa”
  26. Anon84 · 2008-08-12

    Submitted How Large Software Companies Destroy Startup Value as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  27. jamesbritt · 2011-04-01
    I've organized, or helped organize, a number of events in the Phoenix area as well as having been on some conference advisory boards. You have to decide what the point of your event is before figuring out how to organize it. I'm big on serendipity and leaving room for the unplanned. For example: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=afc025... Note the difference. Broadly speaking, there are some peop…

    Comment linking /weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=afc025f2-d3ea-41ee-a22a-e84996349960

    on “Ask HN: Who are the conference and event organizer thought leaders?”
  28. alexandros · 2010-02-09

    Submitted The iPhone Obsession and Lying with Statistics as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  29. jsulak · 2009-09-10

    Submitted Building Scalable Databases: Denormalization, the NoSQL Movement and Digg as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  30. Anon84 · 2008-06-29

    Submitted The GOOG-MSFT Exodus: Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion

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