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peripatetic axiom is a personal blog at peripateticaxiom.blogspot.com about programming and systems. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2008–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One commenter links this blog's post on code complexity metrics as a source, noting Keith Braithwaite's metric can indicate whether a system was written with TDD. No praise or critique of the writing.

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.

Software, systems and management thereof

What Hacker News says?

  1. Interestingly enough, in 2009 Keith Braithwaite concocted a metric that can pretty reliably determine whether a system has been written with TDD or not. See: http://peripateticaxiom.blogspot.com/2006/05/complexity-and-...

    Comment linking /2006/05/complexity-and-test-first-0.html

    on “The Pragmatics of TDD”
  2. Submitted Seduced by the drama? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Relying on getters and setters is mostly wrong, here's why and what to do instead as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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