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Fatvat
Personal blog · fatvat.co.ukprogramming
Fatvat is a personal blog at fatvat.co.uk about programming. Since 2009, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “JVisualVM and Clojure”. The last post was in 2009, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on long method names in Java, including a list of the longest names found in the JDK and Spring. A post on generating text in Haskell with undefined placeholders is also cited.
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?
- JVisualVM and Clojure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-04
What Hacker News says?
I did something similar at http://methodnamer.com/ and also some useless graphs and rants about the long names in Java ( http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2011/05/method-names-in-java-develop... )
Comment linking /2011/05/method-names-in-java-development-kit.html
on “Enterprisify your Java Class Names”Submitted JVisualVM and Clojure as a story · 42 points
HN discussionPerfectly valid question. This explains the practice in incremental dev or refactoring of using "undefined" in stub/placeholder functions to get the type signatures but not function bodies in: http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/09/generating-text-in-haskell.h... Also: 2 longish threads about this http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/duplicates/tjeg3/haskell...
Comment linking /2009/09/generating-text-in-haskell.html
on “Defer Haskell type errors to runtime: new GHC 7.6 developers' flag”Submitted Clojure on the Google App Engine as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI got annoyed by some of the daft names in Java, so I went through and found some of the worst offending method names. The longest method names I could find are "supportsDataDefinitionAndDataManipulationTransactions" (for Java Development Kit) and "setApplyWebRequestInterceptorsToRenderPhaseOnly (for Spring). (see http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2011/05/method-names-in-java-develop... ) for more details.
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on “AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean is abstract”Submitted Data Persistence in GAE with Clojure as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Foreign Exchange Arbitrage with Haskell as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Orbit Simulator in Haskell as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consistent Hashing with Haskell as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ants.clj in Haskell as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief History of Java as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted JVisualVM and Clojure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Epiphanies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freebasing with Haskell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop the Traffic (traffic jam simulation) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monte Carlo Methods and the World Cup, exercise in Haskell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Clojure and Ext/JS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's get Hashing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Professionalism in Software Engineering as a story · 1 points
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