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datachomp is a personal blog at datachomp.com about data and programming. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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8HN people?
2011–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its post about leaving SQL Server for PostgreSQL. The one comment cites it as an example of interest in Postgres among Microsoft developers.

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.

chomping at the bits

What Hacker News says?

  1. Postgres has been getting a bit of interest from a few people in the MS dev community recently, e.g. http://datachomp.com/archives/im-leaving-sql-server-for-post...

    Comment linking /archives/im-leaving-sql-server-for-postgres/

    on “SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks”
  2. Submitted Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server as a story · 235 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A Move Away from SQL Server - No Longer Buying Aircraft Carriers as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Technical Interview as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The appdevs are idiots as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Running ASP.NET MVC4 on Ubuntu 12.04 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Getting Started with Postgres and MVC3 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Enums for When You Just Cant Handle Another Foreign Key (PostgreSQL) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Radius Queries in Postgres (insatiable burrito urge) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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