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Manu Janardhanan
Personal blog · manu-j.com/blog · on HN as boundlessdreamzprogrammingweb
Manu Janardhanan's personal blog at manu-j.com covers programming and web. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Google DNS Performance Statistics From Around The World”. 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 Manu Janardhanan's posts on comparing DNS resolver speeds with a script, and on a Facebook easter egg. The comments cite the posts as sources and do not comment on the writing.
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.
Rubyist since 2006, with stints as a consultant, founder and principal engineer along the way.
Most-linked posts?
- Google DNS Performance Statistics From Around The World2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2009-12-03
- Google Chrome for Mac – A Review2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-22
- Chrome vs Firefox 3.6 vs Safari vs Webkit: Chrome Wins Again2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-28
What Hacker News says?
http://www.manu-j.com/downloads/site/_why.html Copy of the text if you can't access ejohn.org
Comment linking /downloads/site/_why.html
on “Eulogy to _why”Submitted OpenDNS Upgrades Network, Rising To The Google Challenge as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI'm updating the post ( http://www.manu-j.com/blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-ro... ) as results keep coming in (India, Italy, NYC, Houston). From the looks of it, google is the best for international users and Level 3 (4.2.2.2) or openDNS for americans.
Comment linking /blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-rocks/403/
on “Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google”Submitted Palm Pre Launch Guide Leaked [pdf] as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThis is what a quick comparison looks like from NYC (in ms): Level 3 Google OpenDNS lifehacker.com 21 22 19 facebook.com 20 22 19 manu-j.com 21 44 42 reddit.com 30 73 20 tb4.fr 125 22 157 bbc.co.uk 103 22 98 The IP's used are 4.2.2.2, 8.8.8.8, and 208.67.222.222, respectively. Using the script provided here: http://www.manu-j.com/blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-ro...
Comment linking /blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-rocks/403/
on “Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google”Submitted Native Google Chrome on Mac OS X: First Impressions as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI tested this and it is consistently offering better results than OpenDNS and 4.2.2.2. The results are here http://www.manu-j.com/blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-ro... The results posted are from India How are the results from inside US ?
Comment linking /blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-rocks/403/
on “Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google”Submitted Core Animation Support Coming to Mac Chrome as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI just compared the pricing of S3 and Google Storage and at this stage, S3 wins hands down http://www.manu-j.com/blog/amazon-s3-vs-google-storage/490/
Comment linking /blog/amazon-s3-vs-google-storage/490/
on “Google Storage for Developers”Submitted Chrome vs Firefox 3.6 vs Safari vs Webkit: Chrome Wins Again as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSite was loading extremely slowly. So I have mirrored it here http://www.manu-j.com/tmp/chad/
Comment linking /tmp/chad/
on “How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data is King)”Submitted OpenDNS vs Google DNS: Which is Better ? as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI tested this and it is consistently offering better results than OpenDNS and 4.2.2.2. The results are here http://www.manu-j.com/blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-ro... How are the results from inside US ?
Comment linking /blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-rocks/403/
on “Google Public DNS”Submitted Why Maddox Is Wrong About iPhone as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSeeking Work - Remote Rails Developer. I have been using Rails from 2006 and have built a wide range of applications http://www.manu-j.com/ Personal Project: http://www.reviewgang.com/ (rottentomatoes equivalent for Indian movies)
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2012)”Submitted IPhone 3G Versus E71: A Comprehensive Review as a story · 4 points
HN discussionChrome OS is not for everyone and it will be successful in its target marget - Netbooks. Netbooks are under powered devices. Even when you run a full OS on a netbook, it is not a pleasant experience to run resource heavy applications like Photoshop. No one buys a netbook to run those kind of apps anyway. People look at netbook as a device on which they can read stuff, do some emailing or some light editing of docume…
Comment linking /blog/google-chrome-os-a-speculative-analysis/361/
on “Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context”Submitted Google DNS Performance Statistics From Around The World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA comprehensive review of google chrome for mac by me can be found at http://www.manu-j.com/blog/google-chrome-mac-review/375/ [ I used one of the latest nightly builds]
Comment linking /blog/google-chrome-mac-review/375/
on “Google Chrome released for Mac (Official Developer Build)”Submitted Safari 4.0.1 vs Firefox 3.5 vs Chrome Nightly on Mac as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot true. At best they are equal. Most of the times chrome bests safari. http://www.manu-j.com/blog/chrome-vs-firefox-vs-safari-vs-we...
Comment linking /blog/chrome-vs-firefox-vs-safari-vs-webkit/382/
on “Google Chrome more popular than Safari”Submitted Techcrunch’s Twitter Obsession : An Analysis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy javascript performance comparison between Firefox 3.6 and Chrome and Safari http://www.manu-j.com/blog/firefox-3-6-vs-chrome-vs-safari-j...
Comment linking /blog/firefox-3-6-vs-chrome-vs-safari-javascript-performance/432/
on “Firefox 3.6 Released”Submitted Google Chrome for Mac – A Review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere are the results from more than 25 countries http://www.manu-j.com/blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-ro... Not 1000's of domains names though. But if you see the results, they are pretty consistent most of time even for a small number of results
Comment linking /blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-rocks/403/
on “Google Public DNS vs OpenDNS vs Your ISP's DNS: Find out which is fastest”Submitted Ode to Git as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI blog for three reasons 1. To hone my writing skills 2. To put a solution to a problem in the public or make some knowledge public as often when I'm researching some problem, it is in blogs that I find solutions. This is my way of giving back 3. I'm interested in adsense optimizations and my blog provides an opportunity to test out my hunches. My blog is at http://www.manu-j.com/blog/
Comment linking /blog/
on “Do you have a blog? And if so, why?”Submitted Adding Google OAuth to Ruby on Rails Sites as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor tortoisesvn there is scplugin. Last time I tried it was not as good as tortoisesvn. I just learned the command line commands and now I don't miss tortoisesvn. http://scplugin.tigris.org/ For SQLog you can run it on OS X using Wine. I have a written a guide on how to do that http://www.manu-j.com/blog/run-sqlyog-mac-os-x-wine/148/
Comment linking /blog/run-sqlyog-mac-os-x-wine/148/
on “Ask HN: Is it worth switching to a Mac?”Submitted How To Choose A Web Hosting Provider as a story · 1 points
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