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New comment by sgerrand in "Rethinking Database Programming"

sgerrand — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:12:05 +0000

Try the Internet Archive's cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20260818090328/https://acadia.en...

New comment by sgerrand in "Tell HN: Phishing campaign claiming to be GitHub Developer Fund"

sgerrand — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:15:39 +0000

The latest repository being used and advised for this attack is https://github.com/notification-on/gitcoin.com.

New comment by sgerrand in "Ask HN: English speakers, how many ways do you say “a”?"

sgerrand — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:41:27 +0000

Even more confusingly, "ate" is pronounced differently depending on the temporal tense: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ate

New comment by sgerrand in "There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”"

sgerrand — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:15:12 +0000

I don't compile my own software against glibc and run it in Alpine. As mentioned previously, this package was created ~ 6 years ago to run software compiled against glibc (that didn't have the source code available) in Alpine Linux. I don't recommend that anyone uses it over the equivalent Alpine package or compiling your software against musl-c.

New comment by sgerrand in "There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”"

sgerrand — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:27:03 +0000

Ah, thanks for the pointer. The blog post referenced the Alpine package I maintain but was obviously implicitly referencing those Docker images.

New comment by sgerrand in "There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”"

sgerrand — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:24:21 +0000

I don't provide "alpine-glibc" Docker images or containers, so I don't really know what you're referencing here. I maintain an Alpine package called `glibc`. Please enlighten me!

New comment by sgerrand in "There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”"

sgerrand — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:54:38 +0000

Maintainer of the Alpine package referenced here. It's called `glibc`, makes no claims on Alpine Linux and certainly isn't a Linux distribution. You install the package in Alpine Linux, nothing else.

New comment by sgerrand in "There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”"

sgerrand — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:36:32 +0000

Maintainer of the Alpine package referenced here. The same name for what? The package name is `glibc`. I think you're confusing/conflating the source control repository's name with the package when they are different things.

New comment by sgerrand in "There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”"

sgerrand — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:35:07 +0000

Maintainer of the Alpine package you referenced here. I'm not a "them". ;)

I don't see where "Alpine" is used in the package name, unless you're referring to the source repository name. In case it isn't clear, `alpine-pkg-` is a prefix which denotes that the repository contains an Alpine Linux package manifest and configuration. There's nothing in the repo itself which states that this package is published and/or endorsed by Alpine Linux.

New comment by sgerrand in "There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”"

sgerrand — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:32:05 +0000

Maintainer of the Alpine glibc package referenced here. For some background context, this package was originally created to solve a specific problem long before Alpine provided glibc compatibility packages like `libc6-compat` and others. I agree that this package shouldn't be considered "blessed" or an official Alpine package or a default solution for running programs originally compiled against the GNU C library on Alpine Linux, far from it. The source control repository uses `alpine-pkg-` as a prefix to denote what it's used for—not as a means of assumed official status or such like.

What I find saddening is to see passive aggressive statements like

> I have additionally suggested that the TSC may wish to have the Alpine Council reach out to the alpine-glibc project to find a solution which appropriately communicates that the project is not supported in any way by Alpine.

To the Alpine Linux TSC: please get in contact with me about any and all disclaimers you want to add to this package! I'd love to have these discussions faster and in the open, rather than discovering this disquiet tangentially. Let's get these issues resolved as soon as possible in a way that everyone concerned finds acceptable.

New comment by sgerrand in "Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager"

sgerrand — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:31:22 +0000

I'm assuming the author was referring to this plugin: https://github.com/smashedtoatoms/asdf-postgres

New comment by sgerrand in "Show HN: Duffel (S18) – The best API to sell flights online"

sgerrand — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:12:41 +0000

Have you looked at the API documentation or user guides? It seems like you've commented on marketing aspects without looking at the product itself.

New comment by sgerrand in "Thinking in Types"

sgerrand — Fri, 02 May 2014 18:55:55 +0000

Have you looked at the Haskell QML bindings? They generally work for cross platform requirements.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hsqml-0.1.1/docs/Graphics...

New comment by sgerrand in "Improving the Fedora boot experience"

sgerrand — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:56:14 +0000

What you are seeing/referencing is the output of commands during earlier runlevels; the X server won't start until runlevel 5 (number selected off the top of my head). That said, it'd be good to give users of mainstream Linux distributions like Ubuntu the option to suppress output from the boot scripts.

Year of Linux on the desktop, here we come!

New comment by sgerrand in "Show HN: Analytics.js – The analytics API you've always wanted"

sgerrand — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:54:54 +0000

There's a typo on the README site that might indicate that they had similar ideas: `Google Analtyics`

New comment by sgerrand in "The Logic of Testing and the Testing of Logic"

sgerrand — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:24:46 +0000

Sadly, this blog post appears to me as an over extrapolated version of "write tests for your code: you'll thank yourself later". I don't see what it adds to the topic, apart from a confessional component.

New comment by sgerrand in "I’m 25, with an Oxford degree. Why I'm learning to code."

sgerrand — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:43:18 +0000

I find it saddest to see a university graduate with an honours degree (cum laude for the Yanks) and majors in economics, philosophy and politics go straight into marketing. In particular, 'social' marketing. Maybe that's just the way it is these days.

Yet another article from a marketer taking up programming. I wish the OP the best of luck in this endeavour.

New comment by sgerrand in "PHP Sucks But I Like It"

sgerrand — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:01:45 +0000

Actually Facebook agrees with me so much that they rewrote PHP as a C++ macro called hiphop, and no longer use PHP.

A specious comment - hiphop transforms PHP to optimised C++ and then compiles it.

https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php

New comment by sgerrand in "PHP Sucks But I Like It"

sgerrand — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:59:00 +0000

As previously discussed on HN, Robert Eisele's fork of PHP (at v5.3.6) which attempts to fix many of the issues.

http://www.xarg.org/2011/06/php-hacking/

New comment by sgerrand in "PHP Sucks But I Like It"

sgerrand — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:54:30 +0000

A large number of people have previously pointed this out. You're selling the virtues of mod_php, rather than PHP itself.

As other have pointed out in this thread, you can easily configure a web server to behave like that for files in other languages like Perl or Python.