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Patrick Cable
Personal blog · pcable.netsystemsprogramming
Patrick Cable's personal blog at pcable.net covers systems and programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Patrick Cable's essay on the heaviness of maintaining systems. One commenter praises its use of footnotes to keep the main text flowing.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
Many times people use references (footnotes/endnotes) precisely to avoid breaking the flow. In particular, the usage in this article is a good one (IMO). There's no need to put the content from that note into the sentence, parenthesized or not. Same story for a related URL. * https://pcable.net/posts/2020-02-29-heaviness-of-systems/#fn...
Comment linking /posts/2020-02-29-heaviness-of-systems/
on “The Heaviness of Maintaining Systems”Submitted The Heaviness of Maintaining Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Is Eating the Ops World as a story · 1 points
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