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Social posts and threads about software engineering

Every link here is classified as social posts and threads about software engineering.

Hall of Fame: 5
Candidates: 8
Median span: 8.9 yrs
First seen: 2009

Strongest Hall records

5 items

Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

lists.freebsd.org 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-03 Resurfaced 2022-07-24

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“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

bugs.launchpad.net 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2020-01-27

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Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

erlang.org 9 submissions · 8 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2023-09-25

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Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (1998)

lists.squeakfoundation.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2019-12-21

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Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

github.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 13.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2023-03-08

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Recently resurfaced

latest 20+ point return

Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

erlang.org 9 submissions · 8 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2023-09-25

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Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

github.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 13.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2023-03-08

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Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

lists.freebsd.org 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-03 Resurfaced 2022-07-24

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“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

bugs.launchpad.net 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2020-01-27

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Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (1998)

lists.squeakfoundation.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2019-12-21

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Candidates

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Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)

lists.warhead.org.uk 7 submissions · 6 people · 15.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-04-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)

lwn.net 4 submissions · 4 people · 13.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-03-22

Needs:5 submissions

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The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

lkml.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-02-14

Needs:5 submissions

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I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something

old.reddit.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-01-16

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” any more

lkml.org 3 submissions · 3 people · 6.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-11-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Buttery Smooth Emacs

www.facebook.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-12-26

Needs:5 submissions

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In the 90s part of Germany's air traffic control software ran on Emacs

www.reddit.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 5.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-03-09

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit

marc.info 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2012-01-12

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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