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Scott James Remnant

Personal blog · netsplit.comprogrammingsystems

Scott James Remnant's personal blog at netsplit.com covers programming and systems. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “A New Release Process for Ubuntu?”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
11HN people?
2009–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Scott James Remnant's blog for his writing on the Upstart init system, its comparison with launchd, and its possible role in replacing cron. One comment also links a post on Ubuntu's release process.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A New Release Process for Ubuntu?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-09
  2. Tracing on Linux
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-08
  3. Scott James Remnant Leaves Canonical for Google
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. idupree · 2013-10-13
    Historical note: Launchd might have caught on if Apple had open-sourced it sooner. The author of the Upstart init system, Scott James Remnant, wrote in 2006, "How does [Upstart] differ from launchd? launchd is the replacement init system used in MacOS X developed as an “Open Source” project by Apple. For much of its life so far, the licence has actually been entirely non-free and thus it has only become recently int…

    Comment linking /2006/08/26/upstart-in-universe/

    on “T-Mobile Rocks”
  2. breck · 2013-01-23

    Submitted Goodbye Ubuntu as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  3. surki · 2010-05-25
    I think long term plan for upstart is to replace cron[1](generating events at scheduled time ...) And some more general information here [2] [1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/faq.html#replace-cron [2] http://www.netsplit.com/2006/09/01/upstart-can-now-replace-s...

    Comment linking /2006/09/01/upstart-can-now-replace-sysvinit/

    on “Rethinking Cron”
  4. igravious · 2011-01-11

    Submitted Scott James Remnant Leaves Canonical for Google as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  5. zalew · 2011-09-13
    > I don't know much about their development process and efficiency level so I won't say more. http://netsplit.com/2011/09/08/new-ubuntu-release-process/

    Comment linking /2011/09/08/new-ubuntu-release-process/

    on “Is Ubuntu Driving Users Away? ”
  6. keybuk · 2014-10-20

    Submitted Happy 10th Birthday Ubuntu (Scott James Remnant) as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  7. mgunes · 2011-09-09

    Submitted A New Release Process for Ubuntu? as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  8. smanek · 2009-03-28

    Submitted The Fallacy of High Level Languages as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. viraptor · 2011-03-08

    Submitted Tracing on Linux as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  10. breck · 2013-01-23

    Submitted Leaving Canonical [2011] as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. matthewn · 2012-07-09

    Submitted Revision Control and Unit Tests Considered Harmful as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. helwr · 2011-04-28

    Submitted Tracing on Linux as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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