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exceptionnotfound.net is a personal blog at exceptionnotfound.net about programming and career. Since 2015, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 90 times, most often “Code Is Ephemeral, Concepts Are Eternal”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on .NET and Microsoft, including a Catch Block post on .NET community drama, and a list of fundamental software development laws. Most comments cite them as background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-drama-strikes-back/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-14
- Code Is Ephemeral, Concepts Are Eternal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-28
- Programming Is Awesome, but Programmers Suck2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-02
- Technical Debt and the Rewrite-In-Place2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-13
- I Don't Trust Anything That We Didn't Build2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-06
- Injecting Services into MVC Views with ASP.NET Core2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-31
- Getting All Valid Enum Values in ASP.NET Web API2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-29
- The Toxic Glorification of Working Hard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-22
- In Praise of the Junior Developer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-23
- 15 Fundamental Laws of the Internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-14
What Hacker News says?
There are some better lists for laws of Software Development: [1] http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/07/18/laws-of-software-devel... [2] https://exceptionnotfound.net/fundamental-laws-of-software-d... (not so good but with solid discussions from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11574715 ) And more: [3] https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/8/13/timeless-laws-so... (a whole book titled Timeless Laws of Software…
Comment linking /fundamental-laws-of-software-development/
on “Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)”Submitted ‘Laws’ of Software Development as a story · 315 points
HN discussionC#? sad People literally learnt nothing at all Want to stay away from unity? You should also stay away from C# and Microsoft https://exceptionnotfound.net/the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-...
Comment linking /the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-drama-strikes-back/
on “It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot”Submitted Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools as a story · 305 points
HN discussionAs well as changing the license of the .net debugger so it can only be used with visual studio and closed source As well as removing hotreload from .net and making it an exclusive feature to visual studio and closed source https://exceptionnotfound.net/the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-...
Comment linking /the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-drama-strikes-back/
on “Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days”Submitted Code Is Never “Perfect”, Code Is Only Ever “Good Enough” as a story · 193 points
HN discussionI mean the .NET community/org is no stranger to drama and controversal moves by some team members which gets discussed over several weeks on HN, blocks, Twitter and elsewhere. For example, I vividly remember this: https://exceptionnotfound.net/the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-...
Comment linking /the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-drama-strikes-back/
on “Why I Left Rust”Submitted Passion Not Required: It's OK to Only Program for a Paycheck as a story · 74 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Five-Step Process for Planning a Rewrite of a Legacy Project as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Am a 9 to 5 Developer (And So Can You) as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are users trying to make developers angry? as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted 8 Things Every New Programmer Should Know as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted 15 Fundamental Laws of the Internet as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New Guy Is a Better Coder Than Me, and That's Wonderful as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Solo Programmer and the Insidious Promise of the Ivory Tower as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Toxic Glorification of Working Hard as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sublime Joy of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ASP.NET Web API 2 HTTP Message Lifecycle in 43 Easy Steps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diary of a Death March: Terry's Story as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Programmer's Plague – Fighting the Spread of Arrogance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding the Fisher-Yates Card Shuffling Algorithm as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Personal Time != Company Time as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing It Right vs. Getting It Done as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fundamental Laws of Software Development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stovepipe Enterprise – The Daily Software Anti-Pattern as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Code Is Disposable, Just as It Should Be as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New Guy Is a Better Coder Than Me, and That's Wonderful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Toxic Glorification of Working Hard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don't Trust Anything That We Didn't Build as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted “I Don't Trust Anything That We Didn't Build” as a story · 3 points
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