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Important Shock
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Important Shock is a personal blog at importantshock.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2007, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax”. The last post was in 2009, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts comparing Git and Mercurial and arguing that jQuery is a monad. The Git vs Mercurial post is the one commenters cite most often.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-08-08
- JQuery is a monad4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-01-18
- Git is MacGyver, Mercurial is James Bond (2008)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-09-20
What Hacker News says?
Also, JQuery is monadic ( https://importantshock.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/jquery-is-a-... )
Comment linking /2009/01/18/jquery-is-a-monad/
on “10th Anniversary of JQuery”Submitted JQuery is a monad as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI used Mercurial as my main DCVS (and even pushed it at work) for many years, but now I faced the fact that git won and use it for everything. I have to use git anyway, so I might as well not deal with two different workflows and use git exclusively. Mercurial was ahead of git for a long time as far as usability and documentations were concerned. I still think it's a better match than git for many uses cases. Mercur…
Comment linking /2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
on “Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab”Submitted Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax as a story · 48 points
HN discussionI can't believe that this article is still alive and well on the interwebz: MacGyver vs James Bond - https://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercu...
Comment linking /2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
on “Two Git ignore files nobody told me about”Submitted A Deeply Skeptical Look at C++0x as a story · 30 points
HN discussionShut up about the tools you use and write some damn code. http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercur...
Comment linking /2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
on “Why did Git become so popular?”Submitted Blocks != Functional Programming as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> [basing haskell on opaque ideas like currying is dumb] (paraphrase) Simon Peyton-Jones (haskell creator) often says in videos that haskell is a sandbox for playing with CS ideas that haven't yet mainstreamed. Monads are a great example - haskell's purity helped distill the idea into something less opaque and now these ideas are starting to pop up in mainstream languages - "jquery is a monad"[1]. its not haskell th…
Comment linking /2009/01/18/jquery-is-a-monad/
on “Currying in Python”Submitted JQuery is a Monad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDon't people argue that jQuery is DOM manipulation in monads? I sure ask what I did before jQuery :) http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/jquery-is-a-m... HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439116
Comment linking /2009/01/18/jquery-is-a-monad/
on “Reverse.jar”Submitted Git is MacGyver, Mercurial is James Bond (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI evaluated Mercurial some months ago and found it very easy to migrate to from Subversion. Here are some benchmarks on the Linux source tree that might be useful: http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/bzr-git-and-hg-per... This blog post is pretty good at summarizing git and mercurial: http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercur...
Comment linking /2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
on “Ask HN: Which revision control system?”Submitted "Haskell Curry? Yes, I dated his daughter." -- Alonzo Church, Jr as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis kind of comparison reminds me about something similar about Git vs Mercurial: http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercur... It looks more like an emotional kind of story than one about practical decisions.
Comment linking /2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
on “Language War - Scala versus Python”We ended up with mercurial. We needed Windows, Linux, OSX and code in all kinds of languages. git is fine I suppose - but we needed to support Windows and I'd rather know that Windows is supported properly (mercurial), rather than kinda hoping it works (git). Things might have changed since the last time I looked. In either case, be careful with case-sensitive/non-sensitive file systems. Also, consider the learning…
Comment linking /2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
on “Ask HN: Mercurial or git?”
