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Neal Ford
Personal blog · nealford.com/memeagoraprogrammingcareer
Neal Ford writes Meme Agora, a personal blog at nealford.com about programming and career. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Neal Ford's site for its architecture katas, a Maven critique post, and Dietzler's Law on app builders like MS Access. No commenter judges the writing directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-01-23
What Hacker News says?
The transitions never get press or notice, unless they are bad. Then you get comments about how it looked "unprofessional". Apple keynotes are a great example -- they will never have a slide without a transition of some sort (the instant replace that you mention). I get paid to make presentations, I've worked with other paid speakers, and I've seen 1000s of presentations. All the people who get paid to make presenta…
Comment linking /books/presentationpatterns.html
on “Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)”Submitted Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven as a story · 207 points
HN discussionI've had some limited experience with architecture katas[0] and they seem to do a decent job of exercising this skill. They're no replacement for experience, but at least they're _something_. [0] https://nealford.com/katas/#:~:text=Architectural%20Katas%20... .
Comment linking /katas/
on “Ask HN: What is best way to do hands-on practice for system design?”Submitted SOA and the Tar Pit of Irrelevancy (2009) as a story · 47 points
HN discussionAs much as I'd love to dig into whatever conspiracy theory you're coming up with, I think it'd be more constructive to point out that you've (likely unintentionally) become one of the participants in a Suck/Rock dichotomy[1]. That is to say, I didn't particularly have an opinion on Brave before reading these comments, but now (especially having read this one) I am very much disinclined to try it. The breathless prai…
Comment linking /memeagora/2009/08/05/suck-rock-dichotomy.html
on “Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser”Submitted Simple, Repetitive Tasks (2015) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd the last in the list of references in the last page of the PDF is : Why Everyone (Eventually) Hates (or Leaves) Maven : http://nealford.com/memeagora/2013/01/22/why_everyone_eventu...
Comment linking /memeagora/2013/01/22/why_everyone_eventually_hates_maven.html
on “Maven is broken by design”Submitted Neal Ford's Architectural Katas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs others have pointed out, there are lots of products that fit something like this description. The challenge with Access and other app builders is summed up in Dietzler’s Law for Access (from http://nealford.com/memeagora/2013/01/22/why_everyone_eventu... ): “Every Access project will eventually fail because, while 80% of what the user wants is fast and easy to create, and the next 10% is possible with difficulty,…
Comment linking /memeagora/2013/01/22/why_everyone_eventually_hates_maven.html
on “Ask HN: Why isn't there a modern MS Access clone?”Submitted Knowledge Breadth versus Depth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionActually worked with would be http://benrady.com/ , http://grack.com/blog/ , and a few other people who don't have online presences. Seen in person but not worked with would be http://twitter.com/venkat_s and http://www.nealford.com/ .
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on “Ask HN: Who's the best programmer you ever worked with?”Submitted Functional Thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are plenty of apps that are pretty close to what you're describing, basically MS Access for the web. They're usually called “app builders”. Knack, Zoho Creator, etc. The real problem is that this way of creating 1.0 gives you no path to get to 2.0. Dietzler’s Law for Access: “Every Access project will eventually fail because, while 80% of what the user wants is fast and easy to create, and the next 10% is poss…
Comment linking /memeagora/2013/01/22/why_everyone_eventually_hates_maven.html
on “Ask HN: Why can't I visually create v1.0 of a CRUD application?”I've heard of "Architectural katas". Never done any of them, but sound interesting as an exercise. http://nealford.com/katas/about.html
Comment linking /katas/about.html
on “Ask HN: How to run an in-company architecture workshop/meetup?”