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stoimen's web log

Personal blog · stoimen.com/blogprogramming

stoimen's web log is a personal blog at stoimen.com about programming. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Computer Algorithms: Sorting in Linear Time”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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7HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's post on speeding up jQuery variable access by caching selectors. One commenter argues that the advice is not worth following.

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.

Dive into the web development with Zend Framework, jQuery, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML, Flash, Flex 3

Most-linked posts?

  1. Computer Algorithms: Sorting in Linear Time
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. vtempest · 2016-07-27
    This isn't good advice. jQuery will get those variables just as fast. You're really splitting hairs just for the sake of criticizing. http://www.stoimen.com/blog/2010/06/19/speed-up-the-jquery-c... Basic developers should not care about such minor differences and write code they can read & maintain. $("") stands out as a DOM element, and who wants to add an extra line for variables -- unneeded and tedious. Most deve…

    Comment linking /blog/2010/06/19/speed-up-the-jquery-code-selectors-cache/

    on “Show HN: I created a Github profile widget (learning to code)”
  2. freeatnet · 2012-04-07

    Submitted Faster string searching and matching with Rabin-Karp algorithm as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  3. CarolineW · 2016-07-16

    Submitted Computer Algorithms: Sorting in Linear Time as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. dsr12 · 2012-12-02

    Submitted Strassen's Matrix Multiplication as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. taylodl · 2013-01-15

    Submitted Algorithms: Karatsuba Fast Multiplication as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. shashikant52004 · 2012-12-29

    Submitted Computer Algorithms: Sorting in Linear Time as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. princeverma · 2012-02-21

    Submitted Construct a Sorted PHP Linked List as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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