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Joshua Kehn
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Joshua Kehn's personal blog at joshuakehn.com covers programming and web. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A response to Node.js is cancer - The Diagnosis”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads on a Node.js versus Python performance claim and on distraction. The linked posts use benchmarks, including a SimpleHTTPServer test, to argue points about Python performance.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- A response to Node.js is cancer - The Diagnosis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-03
What Hacker News says?
I just tried out SelfControl.app, and it's actually really effective! If you edit /etc/hosts while it's running, it replaces the entries immediately. And somehow I couldn't get any blocked websites to load even after quitting the app and then editing /etc/hosts. I'm not sure how it's doing it, but to be honest, it would be far less effective if I figured it out! EDIT: I couldn't help myself :/ Turns out that it also…
Comment linking /2010/10/25/Defeating-SelfControl.html
on “Distraction is a kind of obesity of the mind”Submitted A response to Node.js is cancer - The Diagnosis as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI have no idea whether that is true and I'm not arguing with it. Why are you writing web request handlers containing heavily recursive code, and why do you seem to think that indicates anything meaningful about Python? Please tell me you are not also using SimpleHTTPServer to try to prove points about Python's performance (like http://joshuakehn.com/2011/10/3/Diagnosis-No-Cancer.html and http://blog.brianbeck.com/po…
Comment linking /2011/10/3/Diagnosis-No-Cancer.html
on “Node.js cures cancer”Submitted Diagnosis: No Cancer (Re: Node.js Is Cancer) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ScaleNPM Backers Ignored as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Templating sucks, here's how to fix it. as a story · 1 points
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