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brain driven development is a personal blog at gleichmann.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.

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6HN people?
2008–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for Java and Scala-style language tricks: varargs, generics and static imports used to make code more expressive. It is linked from threads on a universal design pattern and on Python versus Java.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Check out: http://gleichmann.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/building-your-own... for more tricks with varargs, generics and static imports to "pimp" things up a bit.

    Comment linking /2008/01/13/building-your-own-literals-in-java-lists-and-arrays/

    on “The Universal Design Pattern”
  2. Submitted Refining Uncle Bob’s Clean Code (2008) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Interesting article on how to kinda sorta do it using varags, generics and static imports (looks more like scala): http://gleichmann.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/building-your-own...

    Comment linking /2008/01/13/building-your-own-literals-in-java-lists-and-arrays/

    on “Why Python is more fun that Java”
  4. Submitted Functional Scala: Closures as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Functional Scala: Introduction as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted DAO - it’s not about Layering, it’s about Abstraction as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted There's no average, dumb Java Joe as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted WS-Security using Cert Authentication: How to implement a Message Signing Client as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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