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Kevin Lawler
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Kevin Lawler's personal blog at kevinlawler.com covers programming, science and philosophy. Since 2011, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kevin Lawler's programmer-focused "Oblique Strategies" prompts for when you're stuck, and his article on Tether's stablecoin backing, which one commenter recommends reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-04-17
- Breadth- and Depth-First Thinking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-11
- Prompts for Programmers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-14
What Hacker News says?
It wasn't immediately clear to me the ideal soliton distribution always summed to one. There is a simple proof by induction. I wrote it up here: http://kevinlawler.com/soliton
Comment linking /soliton
on “Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes”Submitted Ctrl-C as a story · 210 points
HN discussionI really liked this version "Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers" especially for when you're stuck on something. https://kevinlawler.com/prompts
Comment linking /prompts
on “Oblique Strategies”Submitted Reference count, don't garbage collect as a story · 189 points
HN discussionI knew I had seen something like this before - http://kevinlawler.com/prompts
Comment linking /prompts
on “Oblique programming strategies”Submitted Streams as a story · 104 points
HN discussionYou should really, really look at how a bank actually works. You're in for a big surprise! Barring that you should look at Lawler's article on tether: https://kevinlawler.com/stablecoins He offers forward contracts if you think he's wrong. He's good for it.
Comment linking /stablecoins
on “Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securities”Submitted Why Gold? as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI've written on this problem before: https://kevinlawler.com/parallel One issue is that the pthread model is too low level (think AND and OR gates), but you must include it for completeness. I agree with the comments here that say higher-level multithreading support needs to be "baked in" to the language. Grand Central Dispatch did a good job of raising the bar here, but has its own problems, and is arguably too low…
Comment linking /parallel
on “Must be this tall to write multi-threaded code (2015)”Submitted How to get a Knuth cheque as a story · 48 points
HN discussionAlso a skeptic: this author doesn't know what they're talking about. "Turning on the printing presses" to defend the USDT/USD price? What? No, the opposite: Tether would have to be buying USDT with USD then destroying it. There remains the possibility that Tether doesn't need to have the money in reserve (or not 100%, anyway). It can just conduct open-market operations to maintain parity: printing & selling Tether w…
Comment linking /tether
on “Tether Is Breaking Its Peg to the Dollar”Submitted Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Invention as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Could Power the Web as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breadth- and Depth-First Thinking as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sparsity as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Parallelism Hard or Not? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted High Output File Management as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Gold? (why gold became currency, part 2) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stablecoins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prompts for Programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NFTs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tether Forward Contracts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breadth- and Depth-First Thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prompts for Programmers – strategies for programmers stuck on problems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 17x17 is NP-Complete as a story · 1 points
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