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Derek Hammer

Personal blog · derekhammer.com · on HN as hammerdrprogramming

Derek Hammer's personal blog at derekhammer.com covers programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “TFS is destroying your development capacity”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

A 2011 post criticising Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (TFS) and its source control tooling. HN readers link it as a summary of the problems with TFS.

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.

Derek Hammer's Website

The author on HN?

hammerdr · 950 karma · member since 2009

http://www.derekhammer.com [ my public key: https://keybase.io/hammerdr; my proof: https://keybase.io/hammerdr/sigs/1ym007-iRygmnlHUPNwxaGCqKjJ_5SMKTaMSMxJ0M1s ]

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. TFS is destroying your development capacity
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. nahname · 2013-11-19Recommends
    Short of saying, everything, this post sums it up pretty nicely. http://www.derekhammer.com/2011/09/11/tfs-is-destroying-your... Note: MS primarily uses perforce and git for source control.

    Comment linking /2011/09/11/tfs-is-destroying-your-development-capacity.html

    on “Visual Studio 2013”
  2. Submitted TFS is destroying your development capacity as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Rails, Coffeescript and Testing as a story · 8 points

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  4. Submitted Feature Branching and Continuous Delivery Are Incompatible as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Node.js Patterns as a story · 1 points

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