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keithba.net is a personal blog at keithba.net about programming and career. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Simplicity and Utility, or Why SOAP Lost”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on breaking work into small tasks for estimating. The post includes an example design doc and spreadsheet breakdown, which one commenter points to as useful for delegating work.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Simplicity and Utility, or Why SOAP Lost3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-09
- Estimate (features) like a boss2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-18
What Hacker News says?
I wrote something recently on how to create small tasks for estimating ( http://keithba.net/estimate-like-a-boss ), which includes an example design doc and spreadsheet of the breakdown. You may find that example useful. Generally speaking, finding a way to communicate this will depend on the engineer. Someone very junior may require much more detail both in the technical design and the feature itself. Someone more…
Comment linking /estimate-like-a-boss
on “Ask HN: How to break up and delegate programming tasks”Submitted Simplicity and Utility, or Why SOAP Lost as a story · 120 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting the Last War as a story · 50 points
HN discussion- zt · 2014-11-18
Submitted Estimate (features) like a boss as a story · 3 points
HN discussion - zt · 2014-11-11
Submitted Designing a Secure Service as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted Simplicity and Utility, Or, Why SOAP Lost (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simplicity and utility, or why SOAP lost as a story · 1 points
HN discussion