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So I decided to take my work back underground
Personal blog · gaiustech.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
So I decided to take my work back underground is a personal blog at gaiustech.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “The Means of Production”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about Python versus Go. The only comment is about a Haskell hello-world static linking error and does not discuss this post's 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.
To stop it falling into the wrong hands
Most-linked posts?
- The Means of Production2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-27
- Jack of all trades → Master of Disaster2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-02
What Hacker News says?
Unfortunately, it runs Windows. Not a problem anymore https://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/wsl-is-a-game-cha... I say it every time it comes up, because it’s true, Surface is what Macbooks and iMacs should have been, perhaps would have if Jobs were still around
Comment linking /2018/06/16/wsl-is-a-game-changer/
on “The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be”Submitted MongoDB Days as a story · 70 points
HN discussionA huge step forward from C's generic segfault. This is straightforward enough in C: http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/segmentation-fault...
Comment linking /2011/09/09/segmentation-faults-tap-and-eclipse/
on “How can C Programs be so Reliable?”Submitted Learning the Wrong Lessons as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWhen I just do a simple hello world app, I get this error ghc helloworld.hs -o helloworld <scp binary and ssh to remote machine> ./helloworld ./helloworld: error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory However if I compile statically, I get a different error ghc helloworld.hs --make -optc-static -optl-static -optl-pthread -static -o helloworld <scp bina…
Comment linking /2010/09/03/on-deployment/
on “Why I’m not leaving Python for Go”Submitted Not-learning is a skill too as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI only recently cut the cord myself, my thoughts on it https://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/less-facebook-mor...
Comment linking /2017/12/29/less-facebook-more-faces-and-books/
on “The Internet I Knew (2014)”Submitted Is Virtualization Worth It? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am using AQ to help get OCaml into "real" use: http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/ociml-new-feature-...
Comment linking /2011/05/26/ociml-new-feature-aq/
on “Why Not Haskell?”Submitted The Means of Production as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post a while ago on motivations for open source: http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/why-open-source/
Comment linking /2011/07/08/why-open-source/
on “Linus Torvalds: Linux succeed thanks to selfishness and trust”Submitted The State Monad in Python terms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's an example of SQLite http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/scope-in-database-... And processing a logfile http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/analyzing-logfiles...
Comment linking /2010/09/13/analyzing-logfiles-2/
on “A brief introduction to Haskell, and why it matters”Submitted Raspberry Pi: Who is it really for? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA few thoughts on HDBC: http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/scope-in-database-... Note that in practice, in OCaml, I found it easier to write my own Oracle bindings than use the "standard" one: http://gaiustech.github.com/ociml/ The mainstream community of both Haskell and OCaml, I get the feeling, doesn't really care too much about RDBMS access, as it's not something academics often need, so you will often fi…
Comment linking /2010/09/19/scope-in-database-code-2/
on “How to Learn Haskell”Submitted Jack of all trades → Master of Disaster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'd prefer to run Debian instead of RHEL, but since the stack I have to support uses Oracle Here you go: https://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/howto-install-ora...
Comment linking /2013/06/26/howto-install-oracle-on-debian-wheezy/
on “Oracle is gunning for AWS with new infrastructure offering”Submitted Scala Quickstart for Oracle DBAs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post about that a while ago: http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/the-means-of-produ... But not every job consists of pure symbol manipulation.
Comment linking /2011/05/20/the-means-of-production/
on “The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time”I had a bit of a nightmare with SWIG recently, glad to hear I'm not alone! http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/ocaml-bindings-for...
Comment linking /2011/08/03/ocaml-bindings-for-coherence-with-swig/
on “SWIG author on the complexity of SWIG”I've been writing a bit about this in my blog recently. Devs and sysadmins serious about their careers need to move out of the back office and into the front office. http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/scrum/
Comment linking /2011/09/28/scrum/
on “Business Still Needs Sysadmins ”It's the nature of that kind of work. I blogged about this phenomenon a little while ago: http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/jack-of-all-trades...
Comment linking /2011/06/13/jack-of-all-trades-master-of-disaster/
on “Tech Jobs stays open for months, unemployment under 4%”I have a little project I call Operation Foothold, which is about removing blockers to enterprise adoption of OCaml. So far I have useful Oracle bindings, and have started work on a Coherence binding. This project is briefly on-hold while I re-learn C++... More on my blog at http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/
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