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Personal blog · antoniogarrote.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems

Working Memory is a personal blog at antoniogarrote.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “An Actors Library for Clojure”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
9HN people?
2010–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

Commenters link this blog's code posts on Clojure actor libraries such as Jobim, Gearman and Kilim, in a thread on Clojure. Only one comment appears, and it cites the code without judging the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. An Actors Library for Clojure
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. gtani · 2012-01-29
    http://antoniogarrote.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/jobim-an-acto... (his more recent code for Gearman, Kilim) Well, as other folks implementing this: haskell, F#, akka, scala actors have shown, getting a working implementation actors is not difficult but making sure green threads spin up quickly and all memory comes back, message passing large shared data structures, making sure the inbox doesn't explode, timestamping m…

    Comment linking /2010/09/03/jobim-an-actors-library-for-clojure/

    on “Clojure is One Answer”
  2. swannodette · 2010-09-03

    Submitted An Actors Library for Clojure as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  3. dtby · 2011-04-20

    Submitted Chasing Erlang: Profiling a Clojure library as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  4. revorad · 2010-12-16

    Submitted Exposing databases as linked data using clojure, compojure and R2RML as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. antoniogarrote · 2016-11-25

    Submitted GraphQL is for silos as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. antoniogarrote · 2014-10-14

    Submitted Building a Resque like job processing system for JVM apps with RabbitMQ as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. antoniogarrote · 2011-04-05

    Submitted Barber shop problem again: Clojure + actors as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. WolfOliver · 2017-03-09

    Submitted GraphQL is for silos as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. antoniogarrote · 2016-09-08

    Submitted From RPC to Hypermedia API in 7 Steps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. landhar · 2011-12-01

    Submitted OCR with Clojure, Tesseract and OpenCV as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. jneira · 2011-04-05

    Submitted Barber shop problem again (clojure actors version) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Kototama · 2010-09-09

    Submitted ZeroMQ and Clojure, a brief introduction as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. antoniogarrote · 2011-01-05

    Submitted Exploring Yahoo S4 with Clojure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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