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Rodney Rehm

Personal blog · blog.rodneyrehm.deprogrammingweb

Rodney Rehm's personal blog at blog.rodneyrehm.de covers programming and web. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Sorting - We're Doing It Wrong”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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12mentions?
11HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Rodney Rehm's posts on JavaScript sort implementations, PHP's @ error-silencing operator, and CMYK colour handling for browser images. Most comments cite them as references.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Sorting - We're Doing It Wrong
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-05-30
  2. Improve PHP Disk I/O & remove Race conditions by using '@' error suppression
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. erikig · 2013-07-06
    I run into this same issue when creating previews from print comps. You should be able to specify a colorspace to resolve that: http://blog.rodneyrehm.de/archives/4-CMYK-Images-And-Browser...

    Comment linking /archives/4-CMYK-Images-And-Browsers-And-ImageMagick.html

    on “Using ImageMagick to make sharp web-sized photographs”
  2. cheeaun · 2012-06-08

    Submitted Sorting - We're Doing It Wrong as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  3. rodneyrehm · 2012-07-13Recommends
    http://blog.rodneyrehm.de/archives/14-Sorting-Were-Doing-It-... may be of [some] interest here, too.

    Comment linking /archives/14-Sorting-Were-Doing-It-Wrong.html

    on “WebKit sorts JS arrays using Selection Sort”
  4. willmacdonald · 2013-01-10

    Submitted Improve PHP Disk I/O & remove Race conditions by using '@' error suppression as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  5. ecaron · 2013-01-10
    The guys at Smarty did some pretty good analysis on the @ operator - specifically in cases where implementing it improved performance: http://blog.rodneyrehm.de/archives/12-Improving-Disk-IO-in-P...

    Comment linking /archives/12-Improving-Disk-IO-in-PHP-Apps.html

    on “Five reasons why the PHP silence operator @ should be avoided”
  6. kolodny · 2014-01-15

    Submitted Libsass.js - An Emscripten Experiment as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. apo · 2016-04-13
    Also see: http://blog.rodneyrehm.de/archives/14-Sorting-Were-Doing-It-...

    Comment linking /archives/14-Sorting-Were-Doing-It-Wrong.html

    on “The Curious Case of JavaScript’s `sort`”
  8. subbz · 2014-01-02

    Submitted Best Of 2013 Conference Talks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. dalke · 2014-04-10
    The author appears to be completely wrong. While the spec doesn't say anything about the expected performance, there's no way a real Javascript implementation uses an O(n * n) algorithm. Indeed, http://blog.rodneyrehm.de/archives/14-Sorting-Were-Doing-It-... a couple of years ago wrote "While InsertionSort and MergeSort (Apple and Mozilla) are stable, QuickSort (Google Chrome) is not (Issue 90). Chrome will sort arr…

    Comment linking /archives/14-Sorting-Were-Doing-It-Wrong.html

    on “How to properly shuffle arrays in JavaScript”
  10. rjaviervega · 2012-05-30

    Submitted Sorting - We're Doing It Wrong as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. lest · 2012-09-10

    Submitted Javascript Sorting - We're Doing It Wrong as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. rodneyrehm · 2012-08-17

    Submitted Hey Twitter, here's an idea as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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