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Dave Herman
Personal blog · calculist.blogspot.comprogrammingphilosophy
Dave Herman writes The Little Calculist, a personal blog at calculist.blogspot.com about programming and philosophy. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters quote or link Dave Herman's posts on the myth of the teenage hacker genius, JavaScript language design such as continuations and blocks, language parsing quirks, and Eich's Law.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dave Herman's research blog.
What Hacker News says?
Delimited continuations are not gonna happen. See http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:shallow_cont... , http://calculist.blogspot.com/2010/04/single-frame-continuat... , and http://calculist.org/blog/2011/12/14/why-coroutines-wont-wor... .
Comment linking /2010/04/single-frame-continuations-for-harmony.html
on “JavaScript Needs Blocks”Submitted The design space of continuations as a story · 9 points
HN discussion"How long will people continue believing in the myth of the 15-year-old hacker genius while simultaneously decrying the unreliability of software before the cognitive dissonance finally cracks?" -Dave Herman ( http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.ht... ) Also, programmers who have been working for >30 years (who started before the mid-late 70s) didn't have the option of learning to program at ho…
Comment linking /2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.html
on “Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B”Submitted Nancy typing (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInterestingly, C suffers from a somewhat similar ambiguity, where not the results of runtime-at-compile-time but rather type definitions affect the parsing. http://calculist.blogspot.com/2009/02/c-typedef-parsing-prob...
Comment linking /2009/02/c-typedef-parsing-problem.html
on “Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof”Submitted Is Scheme's top-level hopeless? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"If you don't have the right abstractions, you can make things artificially difficult." - Joe Armstrong "How long will people continue believing in the myth of the 15-year-old hacker genius while simultaneously decrying the unreliability of software before the cognitive dissonance finally cracks?" - Dave Herman ( http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.ht... ) Also, there are quite a few at cat-v (…
Comment linking /2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.html
on “Favourite Programming Quotes”Submitted Your lambda-cube is puny. as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"How long will people continue believing in the myth of the 15-year-old hacker genius while simultaneously decrying the unreliability of software before the cognitive dissonance finally cracks?" - Dave Herman ( http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.ht... )
Comment linking /2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.html
on “Scaling MySQL to 700 million inserts per day”Submitted The call stack is not a history (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAt first glance, I thought it was Dave Herman's blog ( http://calculist.blogspot.com/ ), due to the similar styling. I would have found it pretty shocking coming from him, but no.
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on “Lisper's first look at Haskell”Not very weird, this is weirder: http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/dynamic-scope.html
Comment linking /2005/12/dynamic-scope.html
on “Why Javascript Creeps Me Out”Eich's Law: If you are liberal in what you accept, others will utterly fail to be conservative in what they send. http://calculist.blogspot.com/2010/02/eichs-law.html
Comment linking /2010/02/eichs-law.html
on “Postel’s Law: Not Sure Who To Be Angry With”
