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Good With Computers
Company blog · sixty-north.com/blogprogramming
Good With Computers is the company blog at sixty-north.com, writing about programming. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Understanding Transducers Through Python”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sixty North's blog for its eight-part series on transducers from first principles in Python, and for a post on software evolution and employee churn that cites Meir Lehman's laws.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Understanding Transducers Through Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-20
What Hacker News says?
A similar, but different, project, with associated learning material: - https://github.com/abingham/python-transducers - http://www.slideshare.net/alinadolgikh/austin-bingham-transd... - http://sixty-north.com/blog/series/understanding-transducers... The last link is an 8 part blog series discussing transducers from first principles, and discussing their use (still in the context of Python).
Comment linking /blog/series/understanding-transducers-through-python
on “Transducers for Python”Submitted Predictive Models of Development Teams and the Systems They Build as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMeir Lehman wrote [1] extensively about software lifecycles and evolution, and came up with what he called "laws". Most of them should be familiar to HN readers. To sum up as succinctly as I can: programs in use undergo continual change; as a program is changed, it becomes more complex; the quality of the system will degrade over time unless rigorously maintained. He also wrote that over time a software system, thro…
Comment linking /blog/predictive-models-of-development-teams-and-the-systems-they-build.html
on “Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies”Submitted Understanding Transducers Through Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python’s Super(): Not As Simple As You Thought as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deriving Transducers from First Principles (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling Development Teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussion