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Taryn Pratt

Personal blog · tarynpivots.com/postprogrammingdata

Taryn Pratt's personal blog at tarynpivots.com covers programming and data. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “How Stack Overflow Upgraded from Windows Server 2012”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
7HN people?
2018–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Taryn Pratt's write-up of how Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012, including the second part on stopping upgrades to 2019 because it destroyed their SSDs. The comments only share links to the full text.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. How Stack Overflow Upgraded from Windows Server 2012
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-07-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. number6 · 2019-07-23
    Best part is the second part, where they stop upgrading to 2019 cause it destroys their SSDs: https://www.tarynpivots.com/post/how-stack-overflow-upgraded...

    Comment linking /post/how-stack-overflow-upgraded-from-windows-2012/

    on “How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012”
  2. ksec · 2020-07-30

    Submitted Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database as a story · 126 points

    HN discussion
  3. acqq · 2019-07-23
    The full text is here: https://www.tarynpivots.com/post/how-stack-overflow-upgraded...

    Comment linking /post/how-stack-overflow-upgraded-from-windows-2012/

    on “How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012”
  4. tybulewicz · 2019-07-22

    Submitted How Stack Overflow Upgraded from Windows Server 2012 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. el_duderino · 2019-07-18

    Submitted Stack Overflow Upgraded from Windows Server 2012 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. el_duderino · 2018-11-10

    Submitted How We Upgraded Stack Overflow to SQL Server 2017 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. eitland · 2019-07-25

    Submitted Stack Overflow Upgraded from Windows Server 2012 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. NKCSS · 2019-07-23

    Submitted Stack Overflow Upgraded from Windows Server 2012 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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