Mark Dominus

Most-linked posts?

1. Monads are like burritos (2009)
   14 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2018-06-22
2. Monads are like burritos
   9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2009-12-15
3. One Plus One Equals Two (2006)
   8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2018-05-26
4. Why I Like Java (2014)
   6 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2018-09-02
5. Design Patterns of 1972 (2006)
   6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-09-10
6. /
   6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2007-12-31
7. Why I like Java
   5 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2014-02-02
8. Moonpig: A billing system that doesn't suck
   4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-01-16
9. Design patterns of 1972
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-08-02
10. More fuckin' user interface design
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-09

What Hacker News says?

1. nikanj · 2019-06-07

   Just came up with it. The complexity of monads and other post-grad level CS stuff mixed with good old spaghetti code. Next up: some doofus who learned high-order Haskell in middle school, and takes offense of me calling it complicated. PS: https://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html

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   on “Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer”
2. JNRowe · 2025-02-10

   Submitted Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more as a story · 993 points

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3. izietto · 2021-03-09Recommends

   The next blog post is hilarious too: https://blog.plover.com/tech/ui-2.html

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   on “Fuckin' user interface design, I swear”
4. luu · 2021-03-08

   Submitted Fuckin' user interface design, I swear as a story · 814 points

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5. tomaaron · 2021-03-09Recommends

   This is hilarious. Check out his next rant about gmail icons [1]. [1] https://blog.plover.com/tech/ui-2.html

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   on “Fuckin' user interface design, I swear”
6. luu · 2019-05-24

   Submitted The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013) as a story · 732 points

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7. jonplackett · 2021-03-09Recommends

   The follow up about gmail icons is equally true + cutting. I've always just ignored all those icons having had no idea what most of them do. https://blog.plover.com/tech/ui-2.html

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   on “Fuckin' user interface design, I swear”
8. m0nastic · 2013-09-25

   Submitted The shittiest project I ever worked on as a story · 501 points

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9. pjungwir · 2019-11-01

   I saw a talk in 2010 by Mark Dominus (who sometimes comments here) titled "Linus Torvald's Greatest Invention". It was about git! It was a fun talk. Here is a link if anyone is interested: https://blog.plover.com/misc/git-talk.html

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   on “Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder”
10. pavel_lishin · 2024-05-13

    Submitted It’s an age of marvels as a story · 449 points

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11. absconditus · 2011-10-17Recommends

    http://blog.plover.com/

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    on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”
12. Rerarom · 2022-02-08

    Submitted I would like a job writing Haskell as a story · 405 points

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13. falsedan · 2016-09-09

    Here's my standard recommendations: * Learn Git Branching (gentle introduction to git's UI, with a visualization of the DAG) [0] * Git for ages 4 and up (beginner-oriented, teaches you how to model git's internal concepts, 90m video) [1] * Git from the bottom-up (high-level overview of git's internal data structures) [2] * My Git Habits (sophisticated, you will have to study the man pages used to completely internal…

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    on “Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them”
14. johndcook · 2020-06-03

    Submitted Weirdos in the depression as a story · 389 points

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15. zimpenfish · 2017-09-21

    > The good news: Stephenson has learned how to write a good 600-page book. The bad news: Seveneves is 900 pages long. https://blog.plover.com/book/Seveneves.html

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    on ““The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason””
16. luu · 2020-04-26

    Submitted Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014) as a story · 386 points

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17. mjd · 2017-09-21

    I said very much the same thing in my review: “[The characters] spend most of the third part literally doing nothing. They are assembled into a team of seven by a nebulous authority for some secret purpose; neither they nor we are told what it is. They go from place to place to investigate something or other, making several pointless stops and excursions and wondering, as I did, what was going on and when something…

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    on ““The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason””
18. panic · 2017-02-21

    Submitted Anagram Scoring as a story · 378 points

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19. mjd · 2020-10-09

    I also recommend Matt Levine, he's just great. Here's a blog post I wrote a couple of months ago to talk about him: https://blog.plover.com/ref/money-stuff.html I said "Almost every issue teaches me something interesting I didn't know, and almost every issue makes me laugh" and I showed four examples. If you're looking for a quick intro to what he's like, maybe check it out. He's still on paternity leave but I hope…

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    on “Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other”
20. snupples · 2014-03-25

    Submitted Why I like Java as a story · 339 points

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21. jdnier · 2025-02-10

    Interesting article relating Adam Unikowsky asking for Claude to decide a Supreme Court case: https://blog.plover.com/tech/gpt/presidential-emoji.html "Claude is fully capable of acting as a Supreme Court Justice right now."

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    on “The Anthropic Economic Index”
22. pavel_lishin · 2022-04-24

    Submitted Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway as a story · 319 points

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23. LukeShu · 2019-01-16

    I agree with sjburt when he says "I think once you understand the graph, then looking at what the graph looks like and what you want it to look like usually leads you to being able to figure out what operation you want." When I was first getting in to Git ~10 years ago, I remember that I found the PeepCode "Git Internals" book[1] very helpful for getting that understanding of the graph. Once you have the better unde…

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    on “How to teach Git”
24. psanford · 2019-12-01

    Submitted Help me ask why you didn't just as a story · 315 points

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25. tomrod · 2024-12-28

    If this is new, then you're one of today's luck 10,000![2] Serious logical foundations take a lot of time and exposition to start from fundamentals. Dismissing them as non-serious because GP's argument failed to consider them is misguided, IMHO. [0] The classic reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica -- over 1,000 pages, Betrand Russell [1] https://cmartinez.web.wesleyan.edu/documents/FP.pdf -…

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    on “Does current AI represent a dead end?”
26. AndrewDucker · 2018-09-03

    Submitted Why I never finish my Haskell programs as a story · 296 points

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27. joshuaissac · 2022-02-12

    Giant sloths lived in South America, where they were the likely megafaunal partners of the avocado. The megafaunal partner of the mango is probably the elephant, which is still extant in the native range of the mango. https://blog.plover.com/bio/urushiol-2.html

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    on “Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]”
28. oli5679 · 2017-04-28

    Submitted Anagram Scoring as a story · 295 points

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29. IngoBlechschmid · 2019-10-28

    Perhaps surprisingly, yes, it does! This is called "reservoir sampling", and a blog post with some more details is available at https://blog.plover.com/prog/weighted-reservoir-sampling.htm... .

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    on “Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?”
30. zeveb · 2017-11-14

    Submitted “It is never a compiler error” as a story · 289 points

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