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Mike Mainguy

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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.

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147mentions?
6HN people?
2010–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 59 in 2011

Most-linked posts?

  1. Let It Crash
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-05
  2. The myth of asynchronous JDBC
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Heroku is a bus, Engineyard is a car as a story · 20 points

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  2. Submitted When to refactor code as a story · 19 points

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  3. Submitted Java collections framework for newbies as a story · 17 points

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  4. Submitted My experience at Denny's and three rules for success as a story · 15 points

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  5. Submitted All software is a commodity as a story · 14 points

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  6. Submitted Git and github are not change management tools (rewriting history in git) as a story · 14 points

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  7. Submitted Defining IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS for the cloud (with examples) as a story · 13 points

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  8. Submitted We are not our code as a story · 10 points

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  9. Submitted Should I use mongodb, couchdb, or redis? as a story · 9 points

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  10. Submitted Ruby on rails and groovy/grails comparison as a story · 9 points

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  11. Submitted What's the big diff between homebrew and macports? as a story · 7 points

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  12. Submitted Architectural Antipattern: Through The Looking Glass as a story · 6 points

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  13. Submitted Women In Technology as a story · 5 points

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  14. Submitted Always Pull Branches When Merging as a story · 5 points

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  15. Submitted The VB Model Versus The Delphi Model as a story · 5 points

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  16. Submitted Stop Branching Agile is soccer, not american football as a story · 5 points

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  17. Submitted My javascript parseint("08") suprise as a story · 5 points

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  18. Submitted Is time a side effect of universal expansion? as a story · 5 points

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  19. Submitted State of programming languages 2018 as a story · 4 points

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  20. Submitted The difference between agility and speed as a story · 4 points

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  21. Submitted Female programmers and asking questions as a story · 3 points

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  22. Submitted Let It Crash as a story · 3 points

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  23. Submitted Navigating the Internet of Things as a story · 3 points

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  24. Submitted ANSI-92 SQL, please use itsome traditions should change as a story · 3 points

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  25. Submitted The Best Practices Myth as a story · 3 points

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  26. Submitted Maven central compared to rubygems.org as a story · 3 points

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  27. Submitted Simulating a "sleep()" function in javascript as a story · 3 points

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  28. Submitted Productivity, billable hours, and expert craftsmen as a story · 3 points

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  29. Submitted Making the MQ versus RPC decision as a story · 3 points

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  30. Submitted Difference between source code and environments for non-tech people as a story · 2 points

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