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Ryan Brush

Personal blog · toomuchcode.orgprogrammingcareerdesign

Ryan Brush writes Too Much Code, a personal blog at toomuchcode.org about programming, career and design. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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5HN people?
2008–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Posts by Ryan Brush on the Rete algorithm for rule engines, a topic HN discussed in the Rete algorithm thread. The only comment is from a clara-rules contributor and does not discuss the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Ryan’s updated profile and outdated blog.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm another early/core contributor to the clara-rules project. It does utilize a DSL that is implemented and allows for some Clojure - so it does have some coupling on that front. The https://www.clara-rules.org webpage shows it has a Java based API that works as far as integrating with the rest of a system (eg. when you aren't using Clojure). The rule structures themself have a data structure representation that is…

    Comment linking /blog/2015/11/14/insta-declarative-dsls

    on “Rete algorithm”
  2. Submitted The Design Crisis as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Micro Benchmarks versus Macro Optimizations in Clojure as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted What we can learn from databases as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Rules as a Control Structure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Can "Agile in the Large" Succeed? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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