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Patrick Logan

Personal blog · patricklogan.blogspot.comprogramming

Patrick Logan writes Making it stick., a personal blog at patricklogan.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.

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2007–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Patrick Logan's blog for posts on Erlang/OTP concurrent programming and column-oriented storage for RDF data. One commenter calls his column-store post a good summary.

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.

"I have a mind like a steel... uh... thingy." Patrick Logan's weblog.

What Hacker News says?

  1. gtani · 2008-08-24
    actually only a couple chapters, right now http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2008/08/concurrent-programm...

    Comment linking /2008/08/concurrent-programming-with-erlang-otp.html

    on “Erlang/OTP, Manning beta book ”
  2. foemmel · 2008-04-18

    Submitted Clueless in Seattle (Ray Ozzie on open source) as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  3. martian · 2008-08-27Recommends
    Sometimes column stores are really the way to go. For massive RDF storage, they offer orders of magnitude improvement in query speeds when compared to the best row-store DBs. The C-Store project at MIT is cool. Here's a good summary: http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2007/12/column-oriented-rdf...

    Comment linking /2007/12/column-oriented-rdf-storage.html

    on “ Column versus row stores”
  4. pius · 2008-01-17

    Submitted "Programming in C is a premature optimization" as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. nickb · 2008-03-16

    Submitted Erlang Criticism Not Unwarranted as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. admp · 2011-04-10

    Submitted Implementing McCarthy's AMB Operator in Javascript Using a Trampoline as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. farmer · 2007-09-04

    Submitted Rob Pike on Concurrency and Message passing in Newsqueak as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. mpweiher · 2023-01-13

    Submitted Don't Fear the Programmer (2007) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. dilanj · 2008-11-23

    Submitted Why Emacs? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. edw519 · 2008-06-21

    Submitted Simplified Javascript would make a decent base for a scripting language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. nickb · 2008-06-03

    Submitted Toward Better UI Programming Models as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. foemmel · 2008-05-14

    Submitted A Little Knowledge (on building "Erlang in X") as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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