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Nothing to say
Personal blog · cournape.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
Nothing to say is a personal blog at cournape.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why people should stop talking about git speed ”. The last post was in 2017, 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 this blog for posts on Python startup time, static builds and freezing, and a critique of git's interface and its merits against hg. The comments discuss those topics rather than judging the writing.
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.
some personal notes
Most-linked posts?
- Why people should stop talking about git speed 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-05-14
What Hacker News says?
One "simple" thing that could be done is to make it easier to build python statically, and improve the freezing toolchain. When I used to care about the problem, I looked into it ( https://cournape.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/distributing-pytho... ) and got somewhere. It improves somewhat startup times, and allow distribution of a single binary. Lots of libraries are terribly slow to import (e.g. requests), but right n…
Comment linking /2015/09/28/distributing-python-programs-ala-go-as-a-single-file/
on “Python startup time: milliseconds matter”Submitted Why people should stop talking about git speed as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think git is much better than hg, but I think most complaints made in the post are fair. Git UI is truly awful. IMO, The two killer features of git are the index and content-based tracking. First the index makes dealing with OP situation much better once you understand it . For example, in hg (or any other VCS I know of), when you merge something and there is a conflict, every change is in your tree, and you don't…
Comment linking /2009/05/12/why-people-should-stop-talking-about-git-speed/
on “Still hatin' on git: now with added Actual Reasons”