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Michel Jansen
Personal blog · micheljansen.org/blog · on HN as micheljansenprogrammingculture
Michel Jansen writes Michel's Exhaust, a personal blog at micheljansen.org about programming and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2013 post on the cost of logging when scaling Node.js on Heroku. Comments add that console output is synchronous or asynchronous depending on its destination.
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.
What Hacker News says?
I think I only use 20% of Delicious, but it is the 20% I love it for. To me, Delicious is like a really organized attic or "backlog" of interesting stuff I found online and want to remember for later. It allows me to find things back because of the tags, but it doesn't take as much time as writing blog posts and I don't have to think about burdening my followers the way I have to with Twitter. I actually wrote about…
Comment linking /blog/entry/614
on “YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo”Submitted An expensive line of code: scaling Node.js on Heroku (2013) as a story · 83 points
HN discussionIronically, this is something that is really bad about the iPad, while 7 inch Android tablets are much better. I recently wrote something about this, should you care: http://micheljansen.org/blog/entry/1111
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on “3.5 Inches”Submitted Simplicity, or why Japan kicks Dutch Rail’s ass as a story · 16 points
HN discussionInteresting. I cannot stop thinking how cool it would be if Google actually decides to step in and propose an alternative protocol for mobile networks. If they put it in Android, they already have a huge base for adoption. Ended up writing a piece on Google because of this on my blog: http://micheljansen.org/blog/entry/1060 (shameless plug :P)
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on “Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (TCP over 3G)”Submitted How I test on mobile devices during development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCareful what conclusions you draw from this post. The comments have further discussion which are very relevant: > Edward Muller says: 1 October, 2013 at 20:29 Was/Is this app located in the EU region? If so, we recently (yesterday 2013/9/30) fixed a problem where each log line would result in a separate, almost synchronous post to logplex. This problem should now be solved. > Michel (ed: Blog Author) says: 21 Octobe…
Comment linking /blog/entry/1698
on “An expensive line of code: scaling Node.js on Heroku (2013)”Submitted The deep reach of Google as a story · 2 points
HN discussionZeke mentions this in the comments[0] on the article: >The console functions are synchronous when the destination is a terminal or a file (to avoid lost messages in case of premature exit) and asynchronous when it’s a pipe (to avoid blocking for long periods of time). Which still seems to be the case in the LTS[1]. [0]: http://micheljansen.org/blog/entry/1698#comment-522124 [1]: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v4.x/d…
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on “An expensive line of code: scaling Node.js on Heroku (2013)”Submitted The Magical 7 inch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEven better, they don't charge for "products" such as wildcard certificates, but for the service of validation that is required to get them. This means you pay once for the validation (much less than a single wildcard certificate costs elsewhere) and then you can create certificates for all your domains at no additional cost. Obviously, they are a small CA, which means they are not recognised on some exotic platform…
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on “Ask HN: where do you get your SSL certificates?”Submitted The Importance and Problems of Autoupdate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI completely agree. In 2008, some students actually made this already: http://www.physorg.com/news125773212.html I wrote about it back then (in Dutch, http://micheljansen.org/blog/entry/471 ) and at that time, there were some laws preventing this from really catching on. I guess those have been changed in the mean time?
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on “Brake lights sensitive to braking force”