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Re:Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:25AM (#19095787)
The Creative Problem Solver's Toolbox, by Richard Fobes. The brilliant description of radial outlines in this book gave me a repeatable process for coming up with creative solutions which I have applied to countless problems for over 20 years.
Re:Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?
on Monday November 12, 2018 @12:59PM (#18434249)
Agreed on the Bob Martin book. For project estimates I have presented estimates this way and I find that executives understand it and it lets me present an estimate and a commitment separately in an understandable way. A summary of his explanation of estimates as probability distributions is here: https://codingjourneyman.com/2014/10/06/the-clean-coder-esti...
Re:A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo....
on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:11AM (#18414927)
Probably a more of a statement about my sense of humor than anything else, but this is, by not even close, the funniest thing I have ever read on Hacker News!