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Jon Davis
Personal blog · jondavis.net/blogprogrammingweb
Jon Davis's personal blog at jondavis.net covers programming and web. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this programming blog for posts comparing Go with C# and arguing about memory needs for developers. The thread also points to another post by the author on Windows development.
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.
Jon Davis — Software, Internet, and AI technologist. Creative with passions in writing, music, video, and more.
What Hacker News says?
5 minutes isn't fair. I took a look at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al... first. OK so Go is about on par with Mono's C# performance and uses up to a 1/3 of the memory with code that is more concise. That's cool because it means I'm not sacrificing anything over the platform I specialize in (C#; although the last time I looked at the Alioth C# code I thought I saw some obvious improvemen…
Comment linking /techblog/?tag=/c%23+vs+go
on “Go is amazing, period.”Submitted Is The Microsoft Stack Really More Expensive? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionA smug, self-righteous windows developer he is indeed. Check out this other post of his: http://www.jondavis.net/techblog/post/2009/02/01/15-Reasons-...
Comment linking /techblog/post/2009/02/01/15-Reasons-To-Stay-The-Heck-Away-From-Linux.aspx
on “Nine Reasons Why 8GB Is Only Just Enough”Submitted Nine Reasons Why 8GB Is Only Just Enough as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) + VMWare Fusion + Mono = Bliss as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Javascript: Introducing "Using" for Declaring Dependency Scripts as a story · 1 points
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