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Wildly Inaccurate
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Wildly Inaccurate is a personal blog at wildlyinaccurate.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “A Hacker's Guide to Git”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a long, clear guide to Git and for a post on choosing bcrypt work factors. Commenters call the Git guide a favorite resource.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A collection of guides & opinions about programming and the state of the web.
Most-linked posts?
- A Hacker's Guide to Git4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-02-16
- A faster BBC News front page3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-20
- A Hacker's Guide to Git3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-21
- A Hacker’s Guide to Git3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-09-07
What Hacker News says?
Yes, depending on the work factor chosen. See http://wildlyinaccurate.com/bcrypt-choosing-a-work-factor/#b... for a table of work factors and associated time to check a single password. The work factor is a trade-off involving burning CPU cycles, load on the servers processing logins, and user experience. If you choose a work factor resulting in each password verification taking half a second, it's essentially compu…
Comment linking /bcrypt-choosing-a-work-factor/
on “Slack was hacked”Submitted A Hacker’s Guide to Git as a story · 372 points
HN discussionYes, you can set the work factor. It seems like the default is around 10 at the moment. http://wildlyinaccurate.com/bcrypt-choosing-a-work-factor/
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on “Slack was hacked”Submitted A faster BBC News front page as a story · 234 points
HN discussionIf this kind of approach to learning Git interests you, I took a similar approach with A Hacker's Guide To Git ( https://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git/ ). It is much longer and goes into a bit more detail than the OP but (hopefully) is arranged in a way that you can read it a few sections at a time.
Comment linking /a-hackers-guide-to-git/
on “Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory”Submitted A Hacker’s Guide to Git as a story · 18 points
HN discussionMy favorite resource is a long but clear blog post. http://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git/ Alternatively, you could attend Recurse Center and sit through one of Mary's excellent git workshops. :)
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on “Git in six hundred words”Submitted A Hacker's Guide to Git as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis post reminded me that 90% of the developers I work with don't set their editor up properly. I'm constantly finding Windows line endings and trailing whitespace. I wrote this (really short) guide that I send to new developers, but imo editors should come configured like this out of the box. http://wildlyinaccurate.com/setting-up-your-editor
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on “Configuring Sublime Text 2”Submitted A Hacker's Guide to Git as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI used to work for the companies that build these bloated websites. I spent a year rebuilding the BBC News front page to make it not-awful[1] but it felt like I was fighting against the rising tide. I've since moved on and now work at SpeedCurve. It's pretty motivating to see so many of our customers making their websites faster and generally better for the people who use them. It's also pretty depressing to know th…
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on “Bloated”Submitted A Hacker's Guide to Git – Wildly Inaccurate as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI've used React as a server-side templating language on many projects small and large. The main feature that makes React great for rendering HTML is higher-order components. In my experience any project of sufficient complexity starts to get ugly with a "regular" templating language. React encourages composition of small isolated components, which tends to result in code that is easier to understand and maintain. Ad…
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on “Progressive React”Submitted A Hacker’s Guide to Git as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI really like the Hacker's Guide to Git: https://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git
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on “Two-Minute Guide to Git”Submitted A Hacker's Guide to Git as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing a faster BBC News front page as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Hacker's Guide to Git as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Second: a framework for mostly-static React applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Worst fonts for programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Hacker's Guide to Git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dishonest comments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't use Git's autocorrect feature as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When did dependency management get so complicated? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blazing fast WordPress with Nginx and Memcached as a story · 1 points
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