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Mazen Harake

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Mazen Harake writes MazenHarake, a personal blog at mazenharake.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Let It Crash the Right Way (2009)”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
7HN people?
2009–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link these posts on the 'let it crash' error-handling philosophy and crash-only software, as background reading on that approach to failure in systems such as Erlang.

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.

"Haha, blogging... SO STUPID. I will never start one!" - Mazen Harake (2008)

Most-linked posts?

  1. Let It Crash the Right Way (2009)
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-05-05
  2. Let it crash (the right way)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. jacquesm · 2015-05-05Recommends
    I think you're missing out on something, have a read and see if maybe 'let it crash' is more than you think it is: http://web.archive.org/web/20090430014122/http://nplus1.org/... https://mazenharake.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/let-it-crash-th...

    Comment linking /2009/09/14/let-it-crash-the-right-way/

    on “Alan Kay on Messaging (1998)”
  2. jacquesm · 2015-05-05

    Submitted Let It Crash the Right Way (2009) as a story · 92 points

    HN discussion
  3. gtani · 2010-04-14
    these too, http://mazenharake.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/let-it-crash-the... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software

    Comment linking /2009/09/14/let-it-crash-the-right-way/

    on “Crash-Only Software”
  4. gtani · 2010-11-01

    Submitted 9 Erlang pitfalls you should know about as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. thunderbong · 2024-06-16

    Submitted Let it crash (the right way) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. iamaleksey · 2010-11-01

    Submitted 9 Erlang pitfalls you should know about as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. edw519 · 2009-10-12

    Submitted Let it crash (the right way) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. EGreg · 2017-06-22

    Submitted Let it crash (the right way) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. pig · 2010-09-14

    Submitted ntop – A top-like monitoring tool for Erlang nodes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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