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Bram Cohen
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Bram Cohen's personal blog at bramcohen.livejournal.com covers programming and culture. Since 2007, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “Great Programmers (2004)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Great Programmers (2004)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-01-18
- Great Programmers4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-11-01
- Patience Diff Advantages4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-03-30
- Bram Cohen: The diff problem has been solved3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-05-24
- Git can't be made consistent3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-18
- Bram Cohen's Practical Cryptography2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-19
- Bram Cohen: Comments on Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-14
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-03
What Hacker News says?
That only gives you academic critique and follow-ups. Sometimes, some practitioner is pissed to the degree he/she posts an opinion online. That is extremely valuable, but never gets into the citation graph. For example... http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/20140.html?thread=214956 > I'd comment on academic papers more, but generally they're so bad that evaluating them does little more than go over epistemological prob…
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on “What happens when you try to publish a failure to replicate in 2015/2016”Submitted Git can't be made consistent as a story · 166 points
HN discussionProbably. He just moved his blog off livejournal ( http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/ ) where you can find his older entries (ideally he would include a link to that on the new site.) He also frequently creates public posts on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/bram.cohen ).
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on “Never Make Counter-Offers”Submitted Great Programmers (2004) as a story · 111 points
HN discussionHe was blogging (not very frequently) at http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/ . Now he is blogging (not very frequently) at the site above.
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on “Never Make Counter-Offers”Submitted Bram Cohen: Comments on Go as a story · 65 points
HN discussionPage 9: this is exactly what Bram Cohen was asking for ( http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/51080.html ).
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on “Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project”Submitted Bram Cohen on great programmers as a story · 55 points
HN discussionAnd has worked quite a bit on the revision control diff/merge problem, e.g. http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/37690.html
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on “Git can't be made consistent”Submitted Freenode sucks as a story · 47 points
HN discussionThere is a lot to be said for the entirety of your question, but i'll try to focus on this since it stood out to me (plus the interest of time): >System design rounds require me to solve problems that the top engineers in the world spend months on. One question I was asked was "How do you make sure that a celebrity's tweet reaches all of her followers in less than 3 seconds?". I had no idea, I have never handled tha…
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on “Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development?”Submitted Bramcohen: A new card game as a story · 30 points
HN discussionThere's also patience diff[1], which does a better job in some situations[2] (you might not normally see these inferior diffs because the diffs are massaged after the LCS algorithm). [1]: http://alfedenzo.livejournal.com/170301.html [2]: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/73318.html
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on “The Myers diff algorithm: part 1”Submitted Awful Programming Advice as a story · 25 points
HN discussionIt's interesting that Bram (I assume it's still Bram's show over there) has finally gone with a new streaming-optimized protocol design. We argued about it years ago. Here's Bram in 2004 arguing that live streaming is a niche market: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/4294.html In the comments, "streamerp2p" is discussed, which I used as the basis for a proposal for live radio station streams along with Speex, back ~2…
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on “Calling All Broadcasters”Submitted Mod_failgracefully (Bram Cohen) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionhttps://bramcohen.livejournal.com/4563.html ... the founder of bittorent. Ill add a personal note. Being a good professional programmer is also about understanding the context of your program. You will not always have the time to optimize for performance. You will not always have the time to refactor functionality to make it more modular for further variety. Sometimes you will need to skip test becuase deadline says…
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on “Ask HN: How’d you go from a noodler to writing large well structured programs?”Submitted Bram Cohen's "Bram's Cube" as a story · 19 points
HN discussionMark Cuban on how to become an innumerate tool: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/35949.html?thread=516461 .
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on “Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich”Submitted Bram Cohen: The diff problem has been solved as a story · 18 points
HN discussionClassically speaking, it's hard to get linear scaling for a large number of cores. Eg, on a small, 128 core machine, one algorithm I did recently gives maximum throughput with 15 cores, and that only gives a 10x speedup. To make effective use of all 128 cores I would have to pay a lot more attention to how the data flow maps to the architecture. That's hard. For example, one of the older pieces of hardware used a ri…
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on “Ask HN: Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be?”Submitted A Process List for my new OS as a story · 13 points
HN discussionBram has written a post (link: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/4563.html ) about what in his view separates great programmers from others (spoiler: it is the ability to come up with good architectural decisions). But then, his codeville project went nowhere so take it with the grain of salt ;)
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on “Legendary Productivity and the Fear of Modern Programming”Submitted Patience Diff Advantages as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIMHO the limiting factor can be described as "semantic density". If you look at non-LCS diff algorithms like patience diff [1] and think about where it falls down, its on cases where its very arguable that the code is poor - too much duplication therefore low semantic density. I think (and am attempting to further this at work for non-code) that the effective key is to do something like patience diff on characters b…
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on “The Tyranny of the Diff”Submitted Bram Cohen with a startup idea as a story · 9 points
HN discussionBram Cohen doesn't just use version control, he invented one. https://bramcohen.livejournal.com/17319.html
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on “The Cult of Vibe Coding Is Insane”Submitted Sudoku and the way of the SAT solver as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf you read the comments one reason FreeNode is in disarray is because Rob Levin who ran the site died in a bicycling accident a few years ago. In fact the chaos and drama at FreeNode might be the real story here. http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/72298.html?thread=1000554#t... Fragglet writes (in the comments): "This shouldn't be surprising to anyone with any experience of Freenode. Freenode is a perfect example of…
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on “Freenode sucks”Submitted Python Wish List as a story · 6 points
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