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Gerald M. Weinberg
Personal blog · secretsofconsulting.blogspot.comprogrammingcareerwriting
Gerald M. Weinberg writes Gerald Weinberg's Secrets of Writing and Consulting, a personal blog at secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com about programming, career and writing. Since 2008, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Why we love and hate meetings”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gerald M. Weinberg's blog, written in his last year, on consulting, software projects and team dynamics, often as a companion to his books and essays.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This blog is a continuation of my books, The Secrets of Consulting , More Secrets of Consulting , and <a href="http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/Site/On_Writing.ht
Most-linked posts?
- Why we love and hate meetings3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-05-17
- Beyond Agile Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-30
- Testing Without Testing (2010)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-11
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-28
- Gerald Weinberg: How we used to do unit-testing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-24
What Hacker News says?
Many thanks for the detailed answer! How do you know when to call it quits? How do you know when people are not aligned or honest, or that you are not right for the team, or when the team is not right for the client/project? How much time is normal for a team/project to get its bearings? (It depends, I know...) For anyone else who had no idea who was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg (also known as Jerry…
Comment linking /2012/09/agile-and-definition-of-quality.html
on “Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing”Submitted Should I learn C++ or Python? as a story · 43 points
HN discussionParticularly poignant blog post of his from only two months ago. http://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/2018/06/why-would-an...
Comment linking /2018/06/why-would-anyone-want-to-live-past.html
on “Gerald M. Weinberg has died”Submitted A Conventional but Flawed View of Leadership as a story · 38 points
HN discussionRIP Jerry, I learned a lot from you. Jerry's blog: http://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/ Jerry's books: https://leanpub.com/u/jerryweinberg
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on “Gerald M. Weinberg has died”Submitted Fuzz Testing and Fuzz History (2017) as a story · 30 points
HN discussionPart of the reason why it is so fragmented is that testing was pushed heavily by people who were all for more testing, while a lot of practical knowledge was locked up in the heads of people who spent more time being pragmatic and less being dogmatic. To the extent that pragmatism didn't support testing dogma, therefore, it got left in isolated pieces and didn't become part of the dialog. If you listen to Kent Beck,…
Comment linking /2008/12/how-we-used-to-do-unit-testing.html
on “Don’t mock what you don’t own”Submitted How to Manage Teams Congruently as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGerald maintained a blog, mainly as a front for the books he wrote, for a year before he passed away: https://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com I like these posts better: https://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/2018/07/some-advice... https://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/2018/06/why-would-a... https://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/2018/04/stumbles-fo... He did show up once on news.yc: https://news.ycombinator.…
Comment linking /2018/04/stumbles-for-new-leaders-and-managers.html
on “How to Understand Systems”Submitted My Favorite Bug as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHey, turns out he has a blog http://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/
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on “The Management Myth (2006)”Submitted A Code of Work Rules for Consultants as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJerry Weinberg has an essay on fads in computer programming[1]. Basically, it's written such that you can swap in whatever today's hottest fad is, and the article still makes sense (it was originally written for Structured Programming, but OO Programing, Agile Development, Node.js, et al would fit well within it). One of his conclusions is that the organizations that are likely to succeed with the latest whiz-bang t…
Comment linking /2011/06/beyond-agile-programming.html
on “How Node.js has revolutionised the Mail Online (Worlds No.1 Online Newspaper)”Submitted Some Very Expensive Software Failures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGerald Weinberg recently said something very interesting about non-makers and meetings: "When I walk a client's corridors, I frequently meet people on their way to meetings. Although these same people have told me that meetings are boring, they often seem excited when they're on their way to one. Why? "... what these meetings are doing is playing out an emotional drama—conflict, blaming, flirting, one-upsmanship, ra…
Comment linking /2009/05/why-we-love-and-hate-meetings.html
on “Freakonomics: Craigslist - A Company of Makers”Submitted Beyond Agile Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are Your Lights On? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gerald Weinberg: How we used to do unit-testing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jerry Weinberg's New Website as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Love and Hate Meetings (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Without Testing (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Do Bad Managers Come From? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life hacks for introverts? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When do I know I'm not a beginning programmer any more? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Habits for Agile Testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writers Are Losing the Fight Again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Psychology of Learned Helplessness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Myth of Writers Block (and what to do when you're blocked) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing without Testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Universal Pattern of Huge Software Losses as a story · 1 points
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