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Re: Ask HN: List of Hacker Blogs?

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Post by wheels »

randomwalker wrote: post #14

I wonder if you could generate this automatically. Let me explain where I'm coming from. I made the Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator ( http://feedworld.net/toc ), and part of the reason I didn't set up more aggregators with the software was that you need domain-knowledge to create the blogrolls. My idea was that you could start from 2 or 3 "seeds" on a given topic, find which blogs they are linking to, filter them…

Incidentally, one of the data sets that we have from a friend of ours that we're playing with internally is a collection of links from the entire German blogosphere. From there we can do queries to see which blogs are similar to others, so if you had a starting point of blogs that you liked, it can suggest others.

Completely unrelated, a while back we did start putting together a planet for some of the folks from HN. It didn't really take off, but there's still some good reading there:

http://planetstartup.directededge.com/

Re: Ask HN: List of Hacker Blogs?

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Post by PStamatiou »

cperciva wrote: post #30
PStamatiou wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bookmarked your site when tarsnap beta came out/was on HN. Skimmed it briefly bit but honestly couldn't figure out how tarsnap worked so I tagged it "toread" and left it at that. ;-P Will go back through your archives now.

honestly couldn't figure out how tarsnap worked Tell me more -- what was unclear?

I remember wondering if it was a local thing that I had to pay for or if it was some cloud like service that I pay for and upload to..

Re: Ask HN: List of Hacker Blogs?

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Post by jrockway »

Feel free to add my blog, http://blog.jrock.us, to your reading list. It is usually about Perl or Lisp, and I try to keep it instructional instead of "omg this is shiny" or "why I hate $programming_language_foo". Some of that creeps in from time to time, and I apologize in advance :)

Re: Ask HN: List of Hacker Blogs?

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Post by cperciva »

PStamatiou wrote: post #34
cperciva wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

honestly couldn't figure out how tarsnap worked Tell me more -- what was unclear?

I remember wondering if it was a local thing that I had to pay for or if it was some cloud like service that I pay for and upload to..

Tarsnap is a backup service -- you pay to store your backups on it.

And thanks for replying; knowing what people find unclear will make my life much easier when I write all the text for the tarsnap website. :-)

Re: Ask HN: List of Hacker Blogs?

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Post by PStamatiou »

cperciva wrote: post #36
PStamatiou wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember wondering if it was a local thing that I had to pay for or if it was some cloud like service that I pay for and upload to..

Tarsnap is a backup service -- you pay to store your backups on it. And thanks for replying; knowing what people find unclear will make my life much easier when I write all the text for the tarsnap website. :-)

yeah i gotcha. when I first heard about it I wasn't sure if it was more a security tool or a backup tool, and/or how it compared to my current S3 setup.
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