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Michael Hansen
Personal blog · synesthesiam.com/posts · on HN as synesthesiamprogrammingscience
Michael Hansen writes synesthesiam, a personal blog at synesthesiam.com about programming and science. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “What Makes Code Hard to Understand?”. 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 a short experiment on what makes code hard to understand, cited in a thread on whether anyone actually reads code. The only comment just links it.
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.
Michael Hansen — Voice Engineering Lead for Nabu Casa.
Most-linked posts?
- What Makes Code Hard to Understand?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-04-26
- Experienced coders read code a bit like JIT compilers (eye tracking research)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-19
What Hacker News says?
It's awesome to see that people are interested in my research! I've made a blog post with another video and a few more details: http://synesthesiam.com/?p=218
Comment linking /?p=218
on “How do we read code?”Submitted Modeling How Programmers Read Code as a story · 73 points
HN discussionLots of great discussion here! If anyone is interested, I added a blog post about the paper ( http://synesthesiam.com/posts/what-makes-code-hard-to-unders... ) and put the data up on github ( https://github.com/synesthesiam/eyecode-tools ).
Comment linking /posts/what-makes-code-hard-to-understand.html
on “What Makes Code Hard to Understand?”Submitted What Makes Code Hard to Understand? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionEven if a software is on Gnu public license or a free license, the software could be unreadable or difficult to understand for many reasons: not modularity, bad object definition, no comments, legacy piece of code inside the software, and so on.. this is a small experiment: http://synesthesiam.com/posts/what-makes-code-hard-to-unders...
Comment linking /posts/what-makes-code-hard-to-understand.html
on “Who actually reads the code?”Submitted Seven Plus or Minus Two as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experienced coders read code a bit like JIT compilers (eye tracking research) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes code hard to understand? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion