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Shay Banon

Personal blog · kimchy.orgprogrammingsystems

Shay Banon writes the dude abides, a personal blog at kimchy.org about programming and systems. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Coders' Recession Guide”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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7HN people?
2009–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2009

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

Why HN links it

Comments are bare links or citations, so these posts cover Compass and Lucene search integration, Lucene with Cassandra, and App Engine full-text search, plus a coders' recession guide.

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.

Shay Banon Personal Site

Most-linked posts?

  1. Coders' Recession Guide
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-01-21
  2. Full-text search on Google AppEngine with Compass
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. gtani · 2011-10-07
    similar blogposts/SO http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2011-08-19-lets-go-shopping.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3958630/what-are-importan... http://mvanier.livejournal.com/998.html http://langref.org/ http://www.kimchy.org/coders-recession-guide/ http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/ http://www.hackernewsers.com/skills/index.html (scroll wayyy down to "Programming"

    Comment linking /coders-recession-guide/

    on “Programming languages worth checking out”
  2. jollojou · 2009-05-09

    Submitted Quantum physics and data replication on data centers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. AshwinJay · 2009-11-01
    There's another one like this - Compass Needle ( http://www.kimchy.org/compasslucene-and-datagrids/ )

    Comment linking /compasslucene-and-datagrids/

    on “Lucandra = Lucene + Cassandra”
  4. nreece · 2009-01-21

    Submitted Coders' Recession Guide as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. MarcusL · 2010-06-14
    The Compass GAE walkthrough ( http://www.kimchy.org/searchable-google-appengine-with-compa... ) was also able to get a rudimentary Lucene indexer up and running. However many people eventually ran into problems with App Engine's 30-second request processing limit. For your Solr instance did you utilize the Task Queue or have to do anything special to work around the 30-second limitation?

    Comment linking /searchable-google-appengine-with-compass/

    on “Full Text Search in the Cloud”
  6. bron · 2011-12-27

    Submitted REST and Web Sockets? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. DocSavage · 2009-04-21

    Submitted Full-text search on Google AppEngine with Compass as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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