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Company blog · cqse.eu/en/blog · on HN as juergensprogramming
cqse.eu is the company blog at cqse.eu, writing about programming. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity and Why We Don't Use It (2014)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post, which argues there is no such thing as plain text, when discussing text files and encoding. The one comment only cites it as an obligatory link and says they get the gist.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Discover CQSE, the innovative force behind Teamscale. Learn about our mission, mindset and get to know the team driving technology forward.
Most-linked posts?
- McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity and Why We Don't Use It (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-22
- Code Quality Audit of Android Core: Code Structure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-05
- Living in the #ifdef Hell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-29
What Hacker News says?
Obligatory link: https://www.cqse.eu/en/news/blog/no-such-thing-as-plain-text... Plain text is great, I get the gist of Derek's post, but encoding of a plain text file is a whole other beast.
Comment linking /en/news/blog/no-such-thing-as-plain-text/
on “Write plain text files”Submitted McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity and Why We Don't Use It (2014) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Save the Semicolon as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living in the #ifdef Hell as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cyclomatic Complexity and Why we don't use it (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living in the #ifdef Hell as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted No Such Thing as Plain Text: Character Encodings for Beginners as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity and Why We Don't Use It as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Concise and Consistent Naming (2005) [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CIA-Style Software Intelligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Test Gap Analysis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is Java's String#replace() so slow? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Change-based vs. File-based Code Reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transparency for Your Manual Tests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Journey to GIT – One Year Later as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some lessons learned about using JaCoCo for manual testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some lessons learned about using JaCoCo for manual testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CQSE Blog – One metric to rule them all as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching development from Subversion to Git – The journey we had to endeavor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross-Project-Clone-Detection finds organisational causes of code duplication as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Convergent Evolution of Code Produce Code Clones? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloned Blocks and Software Anomalies in a »Big Data« Java Project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enforce Consistent Compiler and Code Formatter Settings with Eclipse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Guide to Code Clones (Part 2) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Guide to Code Clones (Part 1) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comments Don't Make Up For Bad Struture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where should I start to clean up my code? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Research on Source Code Repository Analysis: How we can learn from history... as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Qualification and Certification of Software Systems: Just Software Bureaucracy? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android Code Quality: Code Cloning as a story · 1 points
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