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Programming and politics

Personal blog · fupeg.blogspot.comprogrammingpolitics

Programming and politics is a personal blog at fupeg.blogspot.com about programming and politics. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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2008–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a Lisp/Clojure thread as background on persistent data structures, cited in a comment about performance tweaks such as transients. The other linked comment does not mention the blog.

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.

Mostly technical and political -- stuff to bore everyone.

What Hacker News says?

  1. gtani · 2010-07-06
    That's correct, except for performance tweaks like transients http://technomancy.us/132 http://fupeg.blogspot.com/2009/11/persistent-data-structures... http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/99d1cfcc3a9b520b

    Comment linking /2009/11/persistent-data-structures.html

    on “Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP.”
  2. dfabulich · 2011-06-05

    Submitted The Concurrency Myth as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  3. CCs · 2010-05-26
    The language and its implementation will limit the efficiency of the end-result (the running code). The current Google Go compiler implementation produces slow code, but there's a potential to make it as fast as C. The JavaScript implementation can be made better, but it will never be close to C. Scala running on JVM will produce similar efficiency to Java. On multicore the Scala compiler will likely produce a faste…

    Comment linking /2008/06/scala-vs-java-performance.html

    on “Is java dead for startups?”
  4. al3x · 2009-11-24

    Submitted Web Developers Are Stupid and Arrogant as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  5. silkodyssey · 2009-10-23

    Submitted Concurrency Patterns: Java, Scala, and Clojure as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  6. fogus · 2009-10-28

    Submitted Minimalism? Programming? Huh? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. chaostheory · 2008-03-07

    Submitted More JRuby Performance as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. nreece · 2008-12-17

    Submitted Is Scala too hard or are you just stupid? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. fogus · 2010-05-03

    Submitted Apple, Flash, and The Truth as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. fogus · 2010-02-12

    Submitted The Truth About Europe as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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