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Random Musings of an Insane Mind
Company blog · cd34.com/blogprogrammingweb
Random Musings of an Insane Mind is the company blog at cd34.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on WordPress caching benchmarks and scalability, and for a page explaining a Facebook 'Pro' hoax that the author describes as a joke to get media attention.
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.
cd34 LLC builds web applications and open source projects.
What Hacker News says?
http://cd34.com/mubarek+london.png I get similar results as he does, with personalization, and, in Incognito mode.
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on “Google algorithm change launched”Submitted MySQL Query Optimization in Plain English as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://cd34.com/blog/scalability/mysql-query-optimization/ http://cd34.com/blog/scalability/mysql-5-1s-query-optimizer/
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on “Ask HN: I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?”Submitted MySQL 5.1’s query optimizer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHow do plugins like WP Super Cache https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ compare with straight HTML pages? The extra overhead is in the PHP serving up the cached HTML page, but how effective is it in comparison? More of the static site development setups don't have an admin system that compares with WP, is there a WP plugin to export to a static site? Edit: WP caching benchmarks http://cd34.com/blog/scalabil…
Comment linking /blog/scalability/wordpress-cache-plugin-benchmarks/
on “Build Static Websites”Submitted Varnish and Node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt depends on what your app does and how you get traffic. Writing a game? http://cd34.com/blog/boring/social-gaming-design-requirement... Monetizing becomes - ad network (rockyou, adsense) or selling virtual currency through offerpal/superrewards, etc. There is a section in the developers forums that talks about monetization ( http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewforum.php?id=8 ) and mentions all of the latest p…
Comment linking /blog/boring/social-gaming-design-requirements/
on “Are Facebook apps worth it?”Submitted Ext4 xfs and btrfs benchmark redux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOriginal article needs some basic education in economics. It certainly isn't a Ponzi scheme, but, that is a different discussion that already happened - and appears to be dead or searchyc doesn't find it. I ran 2 campaigns this week for a hobby project. Decided I would throw $100 into the wind and see what came of it. This is the ad that played from their preview, I didn't think to screenshot it from the profile vie…
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on “Facebook is alleged to be a Ponzi scheme. What is your ROI?”Submitted Using Varnish to help with A/B Testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey folks - as people have pointed out, this is actually just a hoax. Facebook is not launching a "Pro" version. This blog's author has a page at http://cd34.com/facebook/ which explains that the idea is a joke to get media attention: "Please set your profile picture active prior to 9am EST December 11th so that I can do a quick check and submit the article to the 'news media'." For information about Facebook produc…
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on “Facebook Pro – Facebook’s Revenue Stream”Submitted Using Redis (or Memcached) as a buffer for SQL resulting in near-realtime stats as a story · 1 points
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