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Ted Dziuba
Personal blog · teddziuba.comprogrammingstartupssystems
Ted Dziuba's personal blog at teddziuba.com covers programming, startups and systems. Since 2008, 118 different Hacker News readers have linked it 176 times, most often “I'm going to scale my foot up your...”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 10 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Ted Dziuba's posts on Node.js, queues and taco bell programming as arguments worth reading, and his trolling as hilarious and clever.
- Recommended for · 10 comments
- Called a good explanation, worth reading, incredible, hilarious, still informative, and often has a point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I'm going to scale my foot up your...8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2008-04-24
- The Craigslist Reverse Programmer Troll8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-07-14
- Node.js is Cancer8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-10-02
- Taco Bell Programming7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-10-22
- The 3 Basic Tools of Systems Engineering4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-12-08
- Ted Dziuba is starting over4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-09-10
- The Case Against Queues4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-02-07
- Eventlet: Python Asynchronous I/O for Grownups4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-02-12
- MacOS X is an Unsuitable Platform for Web Development3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-03-28
- How the NSA could stop sucking and be awesome instead.3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-19
What Hacker News says?
Slightly tangential, but Ted Dziuba makes a good case for gun control for these over-armed local police forces in this post http://teddziuba.com/post/37961127287/i-am-a-gun-owner-lets-... Police forces seem to be totally exempt from, say, the ban on assault weapons or such in some of the States. Possibly a law that limits the weaponry that police forces can carry along with a reduction in civilian-owned guns might h…
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on ““Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book””Submitted Node.js is Cancer as a story · 189 points
HN discussionI think a really good explanation of why people are not switching was provided by Ted Dziuba: http://teddziuba.com/post/26426290981/python-3s-marketing-pr...
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on “About Python 3”Submitted I Don't Code in my Free Time as a story · 167 points
HN discussionIt's several things beyond just the lack of warrants. It the opportunistic monitoring as opposed to the targeted monitoring and the activities beyond their jurisdiction. Parallel construction to me suggests that they have been funded with so much cash that they now have enough money to fund scope creep beyond their jurisdiction. They should never had had more cash than they needed to do their job. I personally would…
Comment linking /post/58735980543/how-the-nsa-could-stop-sucking-and-be-awesome-instead
on “NSA Codebreaking: I Am The Other”Submitted Taco Bell Programming as a story · 92 points
HN discussionted used to run uncov. think maddox but actually coherent about startups and programming. here is an idea of his now grown up writing style: http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html and here is an old hackernews post dicussing uncov... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328217
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on “Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag”Submitted I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die as a story · 86 points
HN discussionIt's here: http://teddziuba.com/2011/02/the-case-against-queues.html TL;DR - It's not so much about queues, but about stacks, i.e. new software stacks. His proposition is that quite often you're better off with existing systems. He specifically mentions syslog, so you're logging your tasks and then the consumers monitor this log. Prevents data loss and lets you potentially restart lost tasks. (That's his argument. I…
Comment linking /2011/02/the-case-against-queues.html
on “Node.js has jumped the shark”Submitted Straight Talk on Event Loops as a story · 71 points
HN discussionThis reminded me of http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
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on “Cogs bad”Submitted An Article About Startups That Wasn't Written By A Pretentious Asshole as a story · 52 points
HN discussionI limit my subs to mostly tech and feeds that post infrequently but well. I go back and forth between enabling Hacker News and disabling it. It's too busy and distracting sometimes when I need to get things done and I don't want to get lost it some lengthy article somewhere. Here are my current feeds sans HN http://abstrusegoose.com http://xkcd.com/ http://cmurphycode.posterous.com http://acmel.wordpress.com http://…
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on “Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?”Submitted MacOS X is an Unsuitable Platform for Web Development as a story · 51 points
HN discussionhttp://teddziuba.com/2010/12/the-3-basic-tools-of-systems-en... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/elee/archive/2009/03/11/source-code-... In general throw money at the problem first, resort to code last
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on “Why Use Postgres”Submitted OpenID Is Why I Hate The Internet as a story · 51 points
HN discussionto expand upon this, here are some other representative Ted Dziuba posts: http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html http://teddziuba.com/2011/02/the-case-against-queues.html http://teddziuba.com/2011/03/osx-unsuitable-web-development.... http://teddziuba.com/2008/09/a-web-os-are-you-dense.html if I had to sum up his philosophy in three sentences, here they are: your job is software engineering. every b…
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on “Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server”Submitted SEO Is Mostly Quack Science as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI thought this was a reference to Ted's "Node is Cancer": http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html Seems that nowadays lots of things are cancer.
Comment linking /2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
on “Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.”Submitted A Web OS? Are You Dense? as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI'm referring to the original post ( http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html ), which did test concurrency. The Haskell guy missed the point entirely and seems to have given up after Haskell is shown to memoize his function.
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on “Is Haskell the Cure?”Submitted Why Engineers Hop Jobs as a story · 36 points
HN discussion> @zohebv there are several errors in deduction here: @ajd I would disagree with this statement very easily and very confidently. > really yes > multi-threading and non blocking io are two separate tools asio is a way of minimizing the number of threads in a system and extracting maximum performance. > i don't think anyone's asserting that It follows by logical deduction. There are only 3 possible criticisms of node…
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on “Node.js cures cancer”Submitted The Craigslist Reverse Programmer Troll as a story · 35 points
HN discussion> he is a pro at this ( http://teddziuba.com/2011/07/the-craigslist-reverse-programm... ) The Craigslist Reverse Programmer Troll is clever. While it's openly a troll, it makes a good point. Worth reading.
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on “Node.js cures cancer”Submitted Most Programming Interviews are a Waste of Time as a story · 35 points
HN discussionguys guys guys. you do realize ted is trolling us all right (go look at his twitter @dozba right now. I think he is having a great time). he is a pro at this ( http://teddziuba.com/2011/07/the-craigslist-reverse-programm... ) Also if his thoughts on node.js don't annoy you enough go take a look at his archive: http://teddziuba.com/archives.html . He blogs/trolls/thinks about NoSQL, OS X, twisted/tornado, python, que…
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on “Node.js cures cancer”Submitted Devops Is a Poorly Executed Scam as a story · 30 points
HN discussionReminds me of this: http://teddziuba.com/2009/09/twisted-vs-tornado-youre-both.h...
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on “Understanding the code inside Tornado, the asynchronous web server”Submitted I Love the GPL (Except When it Applies to Me) as a story · 29 points
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