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Joseph Cooney
Personal blog · jcooney.net · on HN as josephcooneyprogrammingcareer
Joseph Cooney writes JCooney.NET, a personal blog at jcooney.net about programming and career. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Good Developer, Good Googler”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on whether software developers are really software engineers. The post compares software work with other engineering disciplines, and the commenter calls the field nascent.
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.
Joseph Cooney's Weblog
Most-linked posts?
- Good Developer, Good Googler2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-30
- Evergreen Skills for Software Developers (Talk)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-24
What Hacker News says?
really? I'm the guy that suggested the name 'stackoverflow.com' to Jeff, and at the time I suggested it it was NOT registered. see: http://jcooney.net/post/2010/08/26/Back-in-the-day-preferred...
Comment linking /post/2010/08/26/Back-in-the-day-preferred-the-name-gosub10com-over-stackoverflowcom.aspx
on “StackOverflow also planning to switch from GoDaddy due to SOPA concerns.”Submitted Evergreen Skills for Software Developers (Talk) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think it's a balance that each person has to set to the "right" level for them based on the stage of their career, and the trajectory they would like it to take. What's "right" for someone who wants to become a project manager is different than what will be "right" for someone who wants to be an architect or strike out and found their own company. This topic is of some interest to me - I am co-authoring a book cal…
Comment linking /post/2018/10/evergreen.html
on “Stop Learning Frameworks”Submitted Good Developer, Good Googler as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI tried to compile a list of a few of them a while ago: http://jcooney.net/post/2011/06/22/First-Check-in-Comments-f...
Comment linking /post/2011/06/22/First-Check-in-Comments-from-Popular-Open-Source-Projects.aspx
on “Git's initial commit”Submitted Software Requirements and Hindsight Bias as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAgree. Here is a rant from me expressing the same sentiment from a while ago https://jcooney.net/post/2008/06/08/Data-grids-lack-of-imagi...
Comment linking /post/2008/06/08/Data-grids-lack-of-imagination-or-abdication-of-design-responsibility.aspx
on “Show HN: React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component”Submitted Show HN: I built this at night last week. Automerch from Twitter feed. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy take on the same topic: http://jcooney.net/post/2013/08/29/Good-Developer-Good-Googl... I'm in 100% agreement.
Comment linking /post/2013/08/29/Good-Developer-Good-Googler.aspx
on “Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently”Submitted Convince your BA to drop out of the Tony Montana School of Business Analysis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI loved Cw back in 2004. I even wrote an article on it http://jcooney.net/post/2004/10/06/OMG-Ccf89-is-Awesome!-You... unfortunately after several blog and hosting platform migrations it got lost. "retail" C# has mostly caught up on many of the cool features of Cw.
Comment linking /post/2004/10/06/OMG-Ccf89-is-Awesome!-You-should-check-it-out.aspx
on “Cω”Submitted What is the most infeasible piece of software you've ever been asked to write? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI also really enjoyed this book, and wrote up some notes on what I took away from it that I thought could apply to software engineering https://jcooney.net/post/2017/08/03/skunkworks.html
Comment linking /post/2017/08/03/skunkworks.html
on “What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015)”It's an easy mistake to make - to assume two things with the same name might be similar. Especially when paper documents have been called thus for a very long time. It seems like another instance where all the good names were taken. http://jcooney.net/post/2012/04/03/Transaction-Argument-Clas...
Comment linking /post/2012/04/03/Transaction-Argument-Class-Message-Service-Agent-Method.aspx
on “Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB”My take on this. Not to say some people don't 'do' software engineering....but it is still nascent. http://jcooney.net/post/2012/02/27/What-Other-Engineering-Di...
Comment linking /post/2012/02/27/What-Other-Engineering-Disciplines-can-Learn-from-Software-Development.aspx
on “You are not a software engineer (2011)”A while ago I tried to track down the initial check-in comments for a number of open source projects, with mixed results. http://jcooney.net/post/2011/06/22/First-Check-in-Comments-f... The Go one is particularly interesting.
Comment linking /post/2011/06/22/First-Check-in-Comments-from-Popular-Open-Source-Projects.aspx
on “Larry Page's Java question – 1996”For years Microsoft was/has been prevented from squeezing out 3rd party developers by the DoJ/Consent Decree. Why do you think Microsoft gives away an anti-virus product that you have to download and install separately? Because if they bundled it with Windows anti-virus vendors would lawyer up. http://jcooney.net/post/2010/05/03/Why-doesnt-feature-X-exis...
Comment linking /post/2010/05/03/Why-doesnt-feature-X-exist-in-Windows.aspx
on “Which Apps are threatened by iOS 5”I guess I'll believe it when I see it. "The enterprise" is a fairly amorphous term, but most enterprises I've worked in either didn't have a wireless network you could connect to (for security reasons) or made you go through a process with each device that would make a colo-rectal surgeon blush. Enterprise IT want to lock down and control things (usually un-necessarily IMO), and I don't think the iPad exposes enough…
Comment linking /post/2010/06/30/The-IT-Department-doesne28099t-Care-about-your-Productivity.aspx
on “The iPad is about to steamroll into the Enterprise”https://jcooney.net
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”