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Hut 8 Labs
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Hut 8 Labs is the company blog at blog.hut8labs.com, writing about programming, career and business. Since 2013, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its essays on software development estimation, velocity, and overconfidence, including a piece on when to automate engineering work. Commenters mainly point to individual posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-04-23
- Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-04-29
- No Deadlines For You: Software Dev Without Estimates, Specs or Other Lies3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-09-25
What Hacker News says?
I'm not the OP (and, btw, would love to hear the real answer) but having been through the exact same process (both the "it should only take an hour" and "wow how did that take 12 hours?" parts), here's my general answer: Some things just take way longer than we think they will. Sometimes it's sheer mis-estimation (setting up the basic CSS style sheet, getting the layout to look nice, getting the transitions working…
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on “Show HN: App for Falling in Love”Submitted Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence as a story · 246 points
HN discussionOn exactly that topic, see another (great) post by the same author: http://blog.hut8labs.com/no-deadlines-for-you.html
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on “Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013)”Submitted Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013) as a story · 204 points
HN discussionAs a mostly business guy, I kind this post said it best. It is about velocity and when to tractor/automate. It came across HN a couple weeks ago, but I'm not great at searching HN. http://blog.hut8labs.com/speeding-up-your-eng-org-part-i.htm...
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on “The Eternal Struggle Between Business and Programmers”Submitted Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted No Deadlines For You: Software Dev Without Estimates, Specs or Other Lies as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Dev Without Estimates, Specs or Other Lies as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why it's Impossible to Estimate Software Development Time as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On AWS, Worry About Availability Zone Failure Before Instance Failure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding Up Your Engineering Org: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality as a story · 1 points
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