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Naresh Jain
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Naresh Jain writes Managed Chaos, a personal blog at blogs.agilefaqs.com about programming and career. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Naresh Jain's post arguing for almost eliminating code comments. The one comment discusses whether the argument holds outside game programming, where performance matters more.
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.
Random Thoughts on Software Development and Adventure Sports by Naresh Jain
What Hacker News says?
Well, John Carmack is in game programming. That is quite a different field where performance is of supreme importance. I might imagine that things are different there, although I cannot claim to know because I do not work in game programming. For 'normal' programming where performance is not the thing one should primarily be worrying about the OP is correct. He is also not the first one to make this observation. E.g…
Comment linking /2009/08/19/are-comments-evil/
on “My mission to (almost) eliminate code comments”Submitted Agile is the new Waterfall as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic Typing Is Not Weak Typing (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principles every developer should know about as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring legacy projects using scaffolding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trailing White Spaces are Ignored by MySQL for Comparison in a Select Statement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great Community of Users Trumps Poor Quality Products as a story · 1 points
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