So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008) (opens in new tab)

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37 pointsbaotiao9y ago11 comments

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pvg9y ago· 4 in thread

An HN evergreen -

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=1975%20programming&sort=byPopu...

HN does need a gold or classic posts tab so we automatically note this reposting. Appearing again and again hints to the fact the article is ^more interesting^ than usual.

Mathnerd3149y ago

Stackoverflow has "community wiki" questions, maybe HN could have community wiki comments?

OTOH my limited experience suggests that the majority of front-page articles will get reposted several times.

Or someone could publish a "Best of HN" collection, then change all reposts to link to that.

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pvg9y ago

Yes and there's a probably a whole other interesting post to be written about the critiques that have come up over the years, including some that claim the original is no longer representative of how varnish works today.

rakoo9y ago

Most importantly, posts with that label should have links to all previous discussions

bbcbasic9y ago· 1 in thread

Was it all fixed in '76?

nimchimpsky9y ago

yes.

kelnos9y ago

So, I get the frustration expressed here, but PH-K just comes off sounding like an arrogant prick by the end of this. I know I'm supposed to attack the argument and not the author, but it's very hard to read a piece like this when the author makes you feel like he's talking down to you the entire time.

I assume this was posted because of the presence of antirez's 4-years-later rebuttal (well, for some workloads) that's also on the front page today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226341). It's interesting to see the difference in writing style: antirez seems to just aim to educate, and reasonably points out how redis's needs and memory access patterns don't allow for good performance if it were to just rely on the OS's VM system. The article about Varnish, however, comes off as someone telling us how stupid we are for not knowing how hardware actually works.

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