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randomdrake
Personal blog · randomdrake.com · on HN as randomdrakecultureprogramming
randomdrake is a personal blog at randomdrake.com about culture and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC ”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a Google Maps version of the NSA undersea fibre-tapping story and for a post on moving from Ubuntu to a Mac. The comments are mostly bare links with little comment on the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- 25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-23
What Hacker News says?
Can’t believe it’s been over ten years. 2008 was when there were numerous undersea cable disruptions[1]. I wrote about them when it happened from the best sources I could find at the time[2]. It isn’t surprising to see that surveillance may have occurred as a result. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruptio... [2] - https://randomdrake.com/2008/02/12/the-submarine-cables-a-co...
Comment linking /2008/02/12/the-submarine-cables-a-complete-guide-to-the-2008-internet-outage/
on “South African authorities admit to mass surveillance”Submitted Never Going Back - A Week of Not Eating Lunch at My Desk as a story · 131 points
HN discussionInteresting. I have difficulties with procrastination as well. I don't recall having met anyone in our realm who says they don't have some difficulties with it. Generally, I agree with what the article is saying. I have found my own ties to procrastination and emotion; specifically anxiety, which the article touched on. I think the suggested approach from the article is missing something that I have found to be impo…
Comment linking /2014/01/02/destroying-personal-anxiety-from-anxieties-to-actionable-and-measurable-2014-resolutions/
on “To Stop Procrastinating, Look to Science of Mood Repair”Submitted 25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC as a story · 75 points
HN discussionhttp://randomdrake.com/2008/02/13/google-maps-version-of-the...
Comment linking /2008/02/13/google-maps-version-of-the-2008-submarine-cable-cuts/
on “How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans”Submitted Connecting to the Internet – Finding My 15-Year-Old Website I Built at 16 as a story · 71 points
HN discussionThis is a great suggestion. A while ago I did some benchmarks with hooking up APC and Squid proxy to the site I was working on at the time. The results were pretty amazing. I saw an increase in capability/performance of 400-700%. I'd probably choose Varnish over Squid if I had to do it again, however. The Squid configuration file is a bit of a nightmare. http://randomdrake.com/2009/07/14/benchmark-results-show-400...
Comment linking /2009/07/14/benchmark-results-show-400-to-700-percent-increase-in-server-capabilities-with-apc-and-squid-cache/
on “Cache Them If You Can”Submitted Celebrating 30 Years On this World Alongside the Commodore 64 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis post would constitute a good/constructive reply to the latter article : 25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC[1] [1][ http://randomdrake.com/2013/02/23/25-years-to-mac-how-ubuntu... ]
Comment linking /2013/02/23/25-years-to-mac-how-ubuntu-pushed-me-away-from-the-pc/
on “I mortgaged my future with a Mac”Submitted No, PHP Errors and Notices Do Not Need to be Encoded as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI've got the logo for the Commodore 64 tattooed on my left shoulder. It began my love of computers at a young age that has been with me for my entire life. I turn 30 in 2 weeks. I feel glad and honored to share a birthday so close to something that has affected my life so much. It's fun to know we grew up together. I'd like to share a story with Hacker News about something so dear to my heart. When I was just shy of…
Comment linking /2012/08/01/celebrating-30-years-on-this-world-alongside-the-commodore-64/
on “The Commodore 64 (C64) is 30 years old today”Submitted Tomodachi – Entrepreneurship in the Face of the Great East Japan Earthquake as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVery interesting read. As someone who struggled through the implementation of Jenks[1] a few years ago in PHP, I can attest to the fact that it was extremely difficult to find any programming of Jenks that was understandable and clear. I was able to find some examples of code, but nothing could explain what was actually happening and, as you said, there were no comments or poor comments in those examples. What I was…
Comment linking /jenks.gif
on “Literate Jenks Natural Breaks and How the Idea of Code is Lost”Submitted From Anxieties to Actionable and Measurable 2014 Resolutions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI agree with many of the issues raised here and had my own issues with the blog post. I wrote up a response which contains more acceptable conclusions/fixes to the issues you present. http://randomdrake.com/2011/08/18/no-php-errors-and-notices-...
Comment linking /2011/08/18/no-php-errors-and-notices-do-not-need-to-be-encoded/
on “Cross-Site Scripting? In PHP Notices? It's more likely than you think”Submitted In Defense of Hipmunk's Usability as a story · 2 points
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