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Matt Sanford
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Matt Sanford's personal blog at mzsanford.wordpress.com covers programming and culture. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “MySQL and Unicode”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Matt Sanford's posts for MySQL's UTF-8 history: the 2010 post on MySQL and Unicode, which notes that UTF-8 support was hobbled before MySQL 5.5, and a post on site outages.
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.
Code, Movies, Whatever strikes my fancy.
Most-linked posts?
- MySQL and Unicode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-14
What Hacker News says?
In my own experience, the biggest unicode implementation failure was MySQL's choice of using 3-byte BMP Only UTF-8 instead of a full 4-byte Unicode support.[1] In retrospect, their decision to go with a broken subset implementation had caused more trouble, confusions and incompatibilities than their claimed benefits of speed/performance/simplification. Do a simple google search will see almost everyone recommends av…
Comment linking /2010/12/28/mysql-and-unicode/
on “Unicode: Good, Bad, and Ugly (2011)”Submitted MySQL and Unicode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhy do you need to do a MySQL upgrade you say? "Up until MySQL 5.5 (released December of 2010) the UTF-8 support was severely hobbled." [missing some Japanese characters, including those used in many people's names, and accents] http://mzsanford.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/mysql-and-unicode/
Comment linking /2010/12/28/mysql-and-unicode/
on “Demystifying Site Outages”Submitted Grease Monkey programming for #NewTwitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My life in the start up arc as a story · 1 points
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