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The BalusC Code
Personal blog · balusc.omnifaces.orgprogrammingweb
The BalusC Code is a personal blog at balusc.omnifaces.org about programming and web. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Its linked post, 'the empty string madness', is cited as an example of language pitfalls that developers eventually run into. The comments say nothing about the writing's quality.
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.
Code depot of a Jakarta EE developer
What Hacker News says?
Things got delivered anyways, it's just that Java had more bumps in the road than Go. Not necessarily something that reflects on the language itself as much as it does on the ecosystem around it (and its age), as well as how it's often used. Give it a decade, one day Go developers will also know the joys of https://balusc.omnifaces.org/2015/10/the-empty-string-madnes... and the likes.
Comment linking /2015/10/the-empty-string-madness.html
on “Go Is a Well-Designed Language”Submitted We reduced tests from hours to just minutes using automatic GlassFish pools as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OmniFaces 3.3 (Finally) Released as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating Tomcat 8.5.x and TomEE 7.x in Eclipse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSF and the empty String madness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Custom layout with h:selectOneRadio in JSF 2.2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted First book dedicated to OmniFaces now available as a story · 1 points
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