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Mike Mainguy
Personal blog · mikemainguy.blogspot.comprogrammingcareer
Mike Mainguy writes mike.mainguy, a personal blog at mikemainguy.blogspot.com about programming and career. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 147 times, most often “Let It Crash”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Let It Crash2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-05
- The myth of asynchronous JDBC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-26
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Heroku is a bus, Engineyard is a car as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted When to refactor code as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java collections framework for newbies as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted My experience at Denny's and three rules for success as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted All software is a commodity as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git and github are not change management tools (rewriting history in git) as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defining IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS for the cloud (with examples) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted We are not our code as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should I use mongodb, couchdb, or redis? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby on rails and groovy/grails comparison as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the big diff between homebrew and macports? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architectural Antipattern: Through The Looking Glass as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Women In Technology as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Always Pull Branches When Merging as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The VB Model Versus The Delphi Model as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Branching Agile is soccer, not american football as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted My javascript parseint("08") suprise as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is time a side effect of universal expansion? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of programming languages 2018 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The difference between agility and speed as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Female programmers and asking questions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let It Crash as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Navigating the Internet of Things as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ANSI-92 SQL, please use itsome traditions should change as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Best Practices Myth as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maven central compared to rubygems.org as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating a "sleep()" function in javascript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productivity, billable hours, and expert craftsmen as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the MQ versus RPC decision as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Difference between source code and environments for non-tech people as a story · 2 points
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