[physicsgraph]

The back-and-forth exchange between blogs, each with comment threads on HN, is a great use of the Internet.

[48864w6ui]

Especially because both blogs and HN comments can be linked to.

[julienfr112]

Hypertext !

[benopal64]

Seriously, so cool. I love watching my fellow nerds debate data types online.

On a side note, is there a Bitter Lesson for datatypes, the way there is for algorithms?

[WJW]

Probably some variation of "hardware usually influences what the optimal datatype is way more than any theoretical runtime differences". For example, B-trees for databases needing to be adapted to the block size of the underlying hardware device. Another example: As soon as you introduce any form pointer chasing to your datatype, you are often going to struggle against relatively simple array-based options because L1 cache is crazy fast compared to RAM.

[otabdeveloper4]

I agree, we should invent the World Wide Web again.

[ThisIsMyAltAcct]

This ecosystem used to be called the Blogosphere