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Pat Patterson

Personal blog · blog.superpat.comprogrammingsystemsweb

Pat Patterson writes Superpatterns, a personal blog at blog.superpat.com about programming, systems and web. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Pat Patterson's blog for a post on zero-copy I/O on Linux, such as sendfile. The only comment is a bare link offered to readers interested in fast I/O.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Pat Patterson on the Cloud, Identity and Storage

What Hacker News says?

  1. If one enjoys fast, 0-copy I/O on Linux, here's an article.[0] PS: Precision of language to avoid confusion: "Indeterministic" is a philosophy term, while the CS term is "nondeterministic". 0. https://blog.superpat.com/zero-copy-in-linux-with-sendfile-a...

    Comment linking /zero-copy-in-linux-with-sendfile-and-splice

    on “How fast are Linux pipes anyway?”
  2. Submitted My experience developing for Chromecast as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Running Your Own Node.js Version on Heroku as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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