Top all-time · #5795
Elf Sternberg
Personal blog · elfsternberg.comprogrammingcareer
Elf Sternberg's personal blog at elfsternberg.com covers programming and career. Since 2009, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Rails 3: Django with a funny syntax”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Elf Sternberg's posts on Rails 3 versus Django, parsing with derivatives, and reading notation in theoretical computer science papers. The links are mostly cited as related reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rails 3: Django with a funny syntax2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-04
What Hacker News says?
I recently wrote an article called "So You Want To Get Into Theoretical Computer Science," which is mostly about how to read a bunch of papers to figure out some obscure, heretofore unimplemented (outside of academia) algorithm. The biggest challenge was reading the mathematical notation, to whit: the four biggest papers in the field I was studying used four different notations, and that you'll end up writing your o…
Comment linking /2018/10/27/so-you-want-to-get-into-theoretical-computer-science/
on “Ask HN: How can I learn to read mathematical notation?”Submitted Python: What the Hell is a Slot? as a story · 45 points
HN discussionhttp://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/02/03/rails-3-django-funny-... "whole" lot is probably overstating it. But some very big key things that make Rails 3 a lot nicer to use.
Comment linking /2010/02/03/rails-3-django-funny-syntax/
on “Where Rails Rocks (and where Python doesn't)”Submitted Don’t live with a broken IDE as a story · 13 points
HN discussionNeat. Has anyone seen Parsing with Derivatives (2011) ? https://youtu.be/WPde6DDLtXg http://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf https://blog.klipse.tech/clojure/2016/10/02/parsing-with-der... https://elfsternberg.com/2018/01/24/parsing-derivatives-naiv... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11976769 (2016) https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04695 (2016)
Comment linking /2018/01/24/parsing-derivatives-naive-python-edition/
on “Practical Earley Parsing (2002) [pdf]”Submitted Google Go: Fischer Price’s My First Programming Language as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl 6 makes all of Lisp's mistakes, then sets itself on fire as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Empirical data on TDD: What went wrong? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails 3: Django with a funny syntax as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backbone.js: Tutorial - A JSON Store as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aspect-oriented programming in Django with signals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Site Generation Is Not a 'Reaction' to Client-Side Rendering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Speed recruiting” events are efficient, but only for the recruiter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub is the new resume as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Education: You Get What You Pay For as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
