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Jeremy W. Sherman
Personal blog · jeremywsherman.com/blogprogrammingweb
Jeremy W. Sherman's personal blog at jeremywsherman.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2022, 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 Jeremy W. Sherman's posts as examples: one on key reordering that causes MongoDB queries to miss documents, and one on metaprogramming in Idris. The comments only cite the posts.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Uh... things that seem to work fine in Mongo under light load tend to fall over during heavy load. Things like this problem. Like key reordering: https://jeremywsherman.com/blog/2013/04/23/key-reordering-ru... Yes, with enough extremely careful coding knowing exactly all the internals of the database, you can probably avoid these giant gotchas. But that's a hell of a lot of work for a DB that's supposed to be easy.…
Comment linking /blog/2013/04/23/key-reordering-ruins-mongodb/
on “MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents”Submitted A Month of Terraform as a story · 101 points
HN discussionLook at Idris to see how this kind of thing works. https://jeremywsherman.com/blog/2015/10/10/idris-metaprogram...
Comment linking /blog/2015/10/10/idris-metaprogramming-hello-world/
on “Why Type Systems Matter”Submitted Why I'm Meh About JSON API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go Versions and the Open-Closed Principle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating to Objective-C literals with `tops` as a story · 1 points
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