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blogs.uw.edu is a personal blog at blogs.uw.edu about programming. Since 2012, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2012–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Posts on John Carmack's 2012 QuakeCon talk about programming, cited in HN debates on team size, code style and whether programming is a science. Commenters link or cite it without judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012)
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-09-05
  2. John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-08-23
  3. Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Most Powerful User Interfaces
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. gtani · 2013-01-15
    He sort of alluded to it, but there's the usual perceived tooling/ retraining/hiring / performance ceiling issues for shops with > N devs, N somewhere between 5 and 25 (I don't agree with his arguments, just repeating them) http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_pro... http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jap3x/im_very_tempt... http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-t...

    Comment linking /ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-the-art-and-science-of-software-engineering/

    on “John Carmack's comment on Doom 3's code style”
  2. gb · 2012-08-23

    Submitted John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering as a story · 271 points

    HN discussion
  3. ThatMightBePaul · 2015-06-12
    I agree the next gen needs Math. Not for the reasons in this article, though. John Carmack's 2012 QuakeCon speech is almost a direct rebuke: https://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-... In real­ity in com­puter sci­ence, just about the only thing that’s really sci­ence is when you’re talk­ing about algo­rithms. And opti­miza­tion is an engi­neer­ing. But those don’t actu­ally occupy that much of t…

    Comment linking /ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-the-art-and-science-of-software-engineering/

    on “What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming”
  4. dshankar · 2015-09-13

    Submitted John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012) as a story · 145 points

    HN discussion
  5. Joeri · 2014-09-05
    He is also by his own admission still learning about programming: On the soft­ware devel­op­ment side, you know there was an inter­est­ing thing at E3, one of the inter­views I gave, I had men­tioned some­thing about how I’ve been learn­ing a whole lot, and I’m a bet­ter pro­gram­mer now than I was a year ago and the inter­viewer expressed a lot of sur­prise at that, you know after 20 years and going through all of…

    Comment linking /ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-the-art-and-science-of-software-engineering/

    on “How Samsung's VR Headset Convinced John Carmack to Join Oculus VR”
  6. newgame · 2014-04-07

    Submitted Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Most Powerful User Interfaces as a story · 131 points

    HN discussion
  7. hypr_geek · 2013-08-20

    Submitted John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012) as a story · 123 points

    HN discussion
  8. mindcrime · 2021-11-23

    Submitted The black hole of software engineering research (2015) as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  9. azhenley · 2015-10-06

    Submitted The Black Hole of Software Engineering Research as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  10. brassybadger · 2015-09-12

    Submitted John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012) as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  11. edtechdev · 2015-08-17

    Submitted Programming languages are the least usable but most powerful HCI ever invented as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  12. bootcat · 2017-10-23

    Submitted John Carmack – Art and Science of Software Engineering as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. azhenley · 2016-02-08

    Submitted Making money versus making knowledge as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. unchar1 · 2021-08-15

    Submitted John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. salmonellaeater · 2016-05-15

    Submitted My sabbatical research pivot as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. sidcool · 2015-09-13

    Submitted John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering [2012] as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. ingve · 2015-03-10

    Submitted Programming languages: least usable, most powerful human-computer interfaces as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. didizaja · 2021-04-12

    Submitted My Splash 2016 Keynote: A human view of programming languages as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. hyperpallium · 2015-09-13

    Submitted John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering [2012] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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