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Erik Engbrecht
Personal blog · erikengbrecht.blogspot.comprogrammingstartups
Erik Engbrecht's personal blog at erikengbrecht.blogspot.com covers programming and startups. Since 2007, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on whether a language or its abstractions make a server I/O bound, and for the Scala 'levels' debate about learning functional programming in Scala.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts and Essays on Systems and Software Engineering
What Hacker News says?
Sometimes the language is the reason it is IO bound. A good example of this and discussion is in the link below. The heap of abstractions can cause it to be IO bound, or the CPU usage can bound the IO. https://erikengbrecht.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-does-io-boun...
Comment linking /2008/06/what-does-io-bound-really-mean.html
on “A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server”Submitted What does I/O bound mean? (2008) as a story · 79 points
HN discussion(i guess most of the Scala guys went to burning Man ;-} 1. read the (many) "levels" posts http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8610 http://blog.tmorris.net/critique-of-oderskys-scala-levels/ http://erikengbrecht.blogspot.com/2011/01/martin-odersky-sca... http://www.fogus.me/thunks/scala.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4247528/efficacy-of-stick... http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2010/09/four-stages-of-functio... 2. T…
Comment linking /2011/01/martin-odersky-scala-levels.html
on “What are the best resources for a complete beginner to learn Scala from?”Submitted Multiprocess versus Multithreaded... or why Java infects Unix with the Windows mindset as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala is for VB programmers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Language Continuum as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is implementation important to a startup? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Higher-Level versus Higher-Order Abstraction as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
