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Grenouille Bouillie
Personal blog · grenouillebouillie.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
Grenouille Bouillie is a personal blog at grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “The Alsys Ada commenting style (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as background for readers who don't know what the French tax on startups debate is about, alongside a related pigeon-movement post. The commenter also points to an earlier HN discussion of that post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This stuff we got used to, but should really fix…
Most-linked posts?
- The Alsys Ada commenting style (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-01
What Hacker News says?
The current state is "on backburner by lack of time". Projects like https://grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/a-theory... and https://github.com/c3d/DB48X-on-DM42/tree/stable have been consuming most of my spare time cycles. Here are factors playing a role in my current thinking: 1/ the LLVM debacle. I just can't follow them changing the APIs all the time. I gave up on LLVM for now. 2/ Rust being the first…
Comment linking /2022/03/07/a-theory-of-incomplete-measurements/
on “XL: An Extensible Programming Language”Submitted The Cost of Exception Handling as a story · 77 points
HN discussionI agree completely. But also, they are not "adding new stuff" anymore. There's practically no new functionality in 10.7 or 10.8. Instead, they are rewriting existing functionality, often in a way that breaks because it fails to take into account all accumulated knowledge. Joel Spolsky wrote about that here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html . Restarting from scratch is the worst idea you can…
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on “Everything just doesn't work and nobody cares”Submitted Returning to Linux, not impressed as a story · 41 points
HN discussionFor those who may have no idea what the author is actually talking about: http://grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/explainin... http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/10/01/the-pigeon-movement-f... The latter, posted/discussed previously on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4595869
Comment linking /2012/10/01/explaining-geonpi-to-non-french-entrepreneurs/
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