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dave^2 = -1
Personal blog · davesquared.netprogramming
dave^2 = -1 is a personal blog at davesquared.net about programming. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One comment links this 2008 post on the contentious myth of waterfall to argue that waterfall was a straw man that was never really advocated. The post is about that myth.
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.
A software development blog by some bloke called Dave.
What Hacker News says?
Except that Waterfall was never really advocated: https://davesquared.net/2008/01/contentious-myth-of-waterfal... It was conceived as a straw man which was being dissed so vigorously that people started believing it was real.
Comment linking /2008/01/contentious-myth-of-waterfall.html
on “Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study”Submitted More freedom from side-effects in F# (2013) as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's an imperative, mutable world out there as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasoning with more than evaluation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From two functions to tuples with a mad Haskeller as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why learning TDD is hard and what to do. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted More freedom from side-effects (F#) as a story · 1 points
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