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Jarosław Rzeszótko
Personal blog · stifflog.comprogramming
Jarosław Rzeszótko's personal blog at stifflog.com covers programming. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Stifflog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog mainly for its 2006 "Stiff asks great programmers" interview series, with answers from figures like Guido van Rossum and Bjarne Stroustrup. It also has an Erlang tutorial and a Rails startup-performance post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Stifflog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2007-09-21
What Hacker News says?
I have just written a short blog post about this: http://www.stifflog.com/2011/05/15/why-is-rails-startup-so-s... I'm not that deeply in Ruby/RubyGems/Bundler internals to be 100% sure, but on the other hand I really can't see how it could work reasonably fast while using the strategy for looking up libraries it uses.
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on “Rails 3 Performance - Not Good Enough”Submitted Stifflog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer as a story · 36 points
HN discussionhttp://www.stifflog.com/2007/05/09/erlang-for-the-practical-... Not the best tutorial ever, but I found it helpful.. It describes a fairly simple, but non-trivial task (creating an RSS feed from your email inbox, generating the RSS feed, and directly interacting with the POP3 protocol over SSL) Also, most of the code will require slight modification to work with the most recent version of Erlang. This seems like a b…
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on “Learn You Some Erlang: Three new chapters available”Submitted An open platform for publishing applications as a story · 9 points
HN discussionhttp://www.stifflog.com/2006/10/16/stiff-asks-great-programm... I think this is the original article, no broken text and Bjarne Stroustrup's answers as a bonus. news.YC has editors, right?
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on “How great programmers learned their craft (interview) ”Submitted Stiff asks, great programmers answer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAs far as I can tell, this "interview" is where the "implement" version of the quote originated: http://www.stifflog.com/2006/10/16/stiff-asks-great-programm... If it's legitimate then it seems DHH is guilty as charged.
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on “Ask HN: Alan Kay or DHH?”Submitted What makes code testing worthwile? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou're right, I was a bit quick and sounded bitchy, sorry about that. Actually, one of the sources, http://www.stifflog.com/2006/10/16/stiff-asks-great-programm... is pretty interesting, too, as it included more answers to the book question by others (and more questions).
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on “Linus Torvald's favorite books(non-programming)”Submitted Thinking in APIs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhy are there missing spaces? e.g. "Ithink", "Iwent", "aPC"? Is it so that you can duplicate the original source with less duplication penalty? See: http://www.stifflog.com/2006/10/16/stiff-asks-great-programm...
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on “Interview w/ Yegge, Torvalds, Thomas, Heinemeier, Norvig, Gosling, Guido, Bray”Submitted Erlang, the functional Smalltalk? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJust saw this interview response by Guido Van Rossum and had to post it. - What do you think is the most important skill every programmer should posses? Guido Van Rossum: Your questions are rather general and hard to answer. :-) I guess being able to cook an egg for breakfast is invaluable. http://www.stifflog.com/2006/10/16/stiff-asks-great-programm...
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on “How to Make Scrambled Eggs”
