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Elegant Coding
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Elegant Coding is a personal blog at elegantcoding.com about programming and math. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “The Problem with Today’s Software Thought Leaders”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- The Problem with Today’s Software Thought Leaders2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-10
- Equations True Computer Science Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-28
What Hacker News says?
I think the American suburban yard may be equally responsible with agriculture for a lot of this in the US. The use of herbicides and pesticides is completely unregulated. Additionally lawns are an unnecessary waste of time for most people and have a large carbon footprint. I had a small native plant yard that attracted hundreds of pollinators and arachnids. I was treated like and criminal forced to cut most of it d…
Comment linking /2018/03/reimagining-suburban-yard-to-reverse.html
on “The Insect Apocalypse Is Here”Submitted Equations True Computer Science Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know as a story · 288 points
HN discussionI know a guy who used to teach Haskell at a university who now runs a development shop at a startup that uses Go. From I recall his main reason for choosing it was to hire cheaper less experienced developers. I remember talking to him about Go and he remarked something like: If you want to clean modular code don’t use Go. Not to disparage less experienced developers but I think teams of developers of any experience…
Comment linking /2012/02/software-reuse-complexity-curve.html
on “Why Go is my favorite programming language”Submitted Abstract Algebra for Programmers: The String Monoid as a story · 31 points
HN discussionHere's a post I did on free math resources, including a list of resources on various topics: http://www.elegantcoding.com/2011/06/free-math-resources-you... There's some really great stuff listed there, I use it all the time.
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on “Ask HN: Learn Math the Hard Way”Submitted Amazing Abstract Algebra: Groups and Rotations as a story · 10 points
HN discussionDoes the planet really need more gasoline? Maybe it’s time we consider the opportunity to allow people to convert their private property into dense carbon sinks that support plant and terrestrial arthropod diversity. http://www.elegantcoding.com/2018/03/reimagining-suburban-ya... Maybe we should be considering every option we have to promote a healthy reduced CO2 environment.
Comment linking /2018/03/reimagining-suburban-yard-to-reverse.html?showComment=1520978508113
on “Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air into Gasoline”Submitted Eleven equations true geeks should know as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf you are interested in this topic I would highly recommend The Ants by E.O. Wilson Bert Holldobler. I was lucky enough to observe ant symbiosis in my yard. Their book helped me understand what I saw. I did a write up of it here: http://www.elegantcoding.com/2016/05/my-ant-symbiosis-storie...
Comment linking /2016/05/my-ant-symbiosis-stories_31.html
on “Ant species cultivates coffee for accommodation”Submitted Math for Programmers (2011) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI can attest to lawns being the enemy. For many years I grew a dense native plant yard and literally have tens of thousands of pictures of terrestrial arthropods ok a lot of dupes of individuals but also amazing biodiversity and multispecies and social phenomena like ant symbiosis which I wrote about here: http://www.elegantcoding.com/2016/05/my-ant-symbiosis-storie... and opiliones social behavior. It was amazing.…
Comment linking /2016/05/my-ant-symbiosis-stories_31.html
on “Where have all the insects gone?”Submitted O(log(n)) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI did a post a while back on this topic, which might be of interest: http://www.elegantcoding.com/2014/08/a-brief-and-incomplete-...
Comment linking /2014/08/a-brief-and-incomplete-history-of.html
on “Ask HN: How to learn about the history of computing?”Submitted Software System Morphology as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI agree, naming is important and often overlooked, check out this quote by Josh Bloch: http://www.elegantcoding.com/2011/07/software-frameworks-res...
Comment linking /2011/07/software-frameworks-resistance-isnt.html
on “On naming”Submitted Are Your Developers Treating Your Project as Their Own Personal Science Project? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief and Incomplete History of Computing from Ancient to Modern as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Frameworks and Entropy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reimagining the Suburban Yard to Reverse Pollinator and Insect Decline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is Software Correctness? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming and Order Theory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Math of the First Scala Assignment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elegant Coding: Lattice Theory for Programmers and Non Computer Scientists as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lattice Theory for Programmers and Non Computer Scientists as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Can’t Have a Real Software Engineering Discipline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is Generic Programming? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Survey of the Conventional Wisdom on Software Naming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted O(log(n)) - logs for programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abstract Algebra: The Logic of Odd and Even as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responding to "Eleven Equations" Comments, Math Notation, and More as a story · 2 points
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