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Work in progress
Personal blog · jakevoytko.comprogramming
Work in progress is a personal blog at jakevoytko.com about programming. Since 2007, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Languages and Axioms (thoughts Clojure and Lisp)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Languages and Axioms (thoughts Clojure and Lisp)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-03-22
What Hacker News says?
I tested string searching algorithms a few years ago[0][1], and Brute Force was surprisingly performant, enough that picking a string searching algorithm becomes an engineering tradeoff. It found a sentence fragment at the end of Moby Dick within 8ms, 7 times slower than Boyer-Moore. But most of us aren't searching Moby Dick, but rather a HTTP header, some user input, or a paragraph of a document. Even long-winded u…
Comment linking /blog/2007/12/11/fun-with-string-searching/
on “Why GNU grep is Fast”Submitted Review of "ANSI Common Lisp" as a story · 34 points
HN discussionI just wrote and emailed the following: http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2010/09/27/my-letter-to-the-u... I was short on time, so it is longer than I hoped. However, I think it gets my core feelings across.
Comment linking /blog/2010/09/27/my-letter-to-the-us-patent-office-regarding-software-patents/
on “Reminder: Today is the deadline to tell USPTO to end software patents”Submitted Lisp is Changing My C++ as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Explaining Lisp to my father as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Languages and Axioms (thoughts Clojure and Lisp) as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Graham and Feynman Meet in the Middle as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Reddit (or Hacker News) Will (Maybe) Save Software Development as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Harder to Read Code than to Write It as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with Lisp. as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spoken language affects thought as programming languages affect algorithms? as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Number Theory for Programmers, Part 1 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Do Well in Programming Competitions as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stick Figure Web Design as a story · 6 points
HN discussion- eb · 2008-03-02
Submitted People are the Problem, not Operator Overloading as a story · 5 points
HN discussion Submitted Why Does RSA Work? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Languages and axioms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Code Workaround for a Busted Furnace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pros and Cons of Executable Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Number Theory for Programmers, Part 2 as a story · 1 points
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