Hacker News
- Software engineering research questions https://neverworkintheory.org/2022/08/30/software-engineering-research-questions.html 84 comments
- A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge https://neverworkintheory.org/2022/04/21/decline-of-sourceforge.html 116 comments
- Obfuscated Strings Threatening Your Privacy https://neverworkintheory.org/2022/03/13/obfuscated-strings-and-privacy.html 5 comments
- Consider the Thermometer https://neverworkintheory.org/2022/03/08/consider-the-thermometer.html 11 comments
- What's Wrong with My Benchmark Results? https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/10/19/whats-wrong-with-my-benchmark-results.html 3 comments
- Is 40 the New 60? https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/10/03/is-40-the-new-60.html 356 comments
- Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/24/coverage-is-not-strongly-correlated-with-test-suite-effectiveness.html 173 comments
- Software projects need heroes? lessons learned from 1100 projects https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/10/why-software-projects-need-heroes.html 48 comments
- Studying the relationship between exception handling and post-release defects https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/16/exception-handling-practices-and-post-release-defects.html 73 comments
- What's Wrong with Tech Hiring https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/13/whats-wrong-with-tech-hiring.html 385 comments
- Software Development Waste https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/08/29/software-development-waste.html 127 comments
- On the Nature of Merge Conflicts https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/08/12/on-the-nature-of-merge-conflicts.html 6 comments
- Novice Programming Mistakes (2016) https://neverworkintheory.org/2016/06/09/novice-programming-mistakes.html 34 comments
- Too Many Knobs http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/06/09/too-many-knobs.html 116 comments
- “Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now” http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/04/26/perception-productivity.html 189 comments
- Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures http://neverworkintheory.org/2014/10/08/simple-testing-can-prevent-most-critical-failures.html 6 comments
- Empirical Evidence for the Value of Version Control? http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=451 46 comments
- Empirical Evidence for the Value of Version Control? http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=451 6 comments
- Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=197 53 comments
Lobsters
- Test Flakiness Across Programming Languages https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/03/14/test-flakiness-across-programming-languages.html 2 comments testing
- Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/24/coverage-is-not-strongly-correlated-with-test-suite-effectiveness.html 17 comments compsci , testing
- Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages? https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/20/do-developers-read-compiler-error-messages.html 7 comments cogsci
- "Cloning considered harmful" considered harmful http://neverworkintheory.org/2011/08/16/cloning-considered-harmful-considered-harmful.html 4 comments practices , programming
- Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/09/30/rethinking-git.html 13 comments programming , vcs
- Novice Programming Mistakes http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/06/09/novice-programming-mistakes.html 2 comments compsci , programming
- Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages? https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/20/do-developers-read-compiler-error-messages.html 47 comments rust
- Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages? https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/20/do-developers-read-compiler-error-messages.html 103 comments programming
- Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/09/30/rethinking-git.html 12 comments programming
- 30min survey about understanding of how GPL 3.0, LGPL 3.0, and MPL 2.0 interact http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/08/02/license-survey.html 8 comments programming
- Too Many Knobs - A study on the unnecessary complexity of system software configuration http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/06/09/too-many-knobs.html 32 comments programming
- Analysis of Exception Handling Patterns in Java Projects: An Empirical Study http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/04/26/java-exception-handling.html 19 comments programming
- An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax (from /r/compsci) http://neverworkintheory.org/2014/01/29/stefik-siebert-syntax.html 3 comments rust
- An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax http://neverworkintheory.org/2014/01/29/stefik-siebert-syntax.html 33 comments compsci
- UML Not Used in Practice? http://neverworkintheory.org/2013/06/13/uml-in-practice-2.html 145 comments programming
- Teaching programming : a specific teaching technique can cut the failure rate in introductory classes by more than half; it also increases self-reported learner satisfaction http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=503 20 comments programming
- Because there isn't enough emiricism in this profession. (A blog collection of papers that try to test 'common knowledge' claims) http://www.neverworkintheory.org/ 4 comments programming
- Scala vs. Java: Just as fast, less code, harder to program (regardless of skill) http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=375 159 comments programming
- "Perl users were unable to write programs more accurately than those using a language designed by chance" http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=197 53 comments programming
- Variability and Reproducibility in Software Engineering: A Study of Four Companies that Developed the Same System http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=159 4 comments compsci
- "Lines of Code" most significant complexity metric [paper] http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=58 20 comments programming
Linking pages
- Why F# is the best enterprise language | F# for fun and profit https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/fsharp-is-the-best-enterprise-language/ 73 comments
- Notes on Every Strangeloop 2022 Talk I Attended • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/strangeloop-22/ 32 comments
- Write meaningful unit tests https://cygni.se/write-meaningful-unit-tests/ 8 comments
- Top 96 Technology Blogs on Culture, Architecture and Theory https://www.sealights.io/blog/96-technology-blogs-that-will-make-you-stop-and-think/ 1 comment
- What We Know We Don't Know • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/ 1 comment
- Never Work In Theory, Spring 2023 | blarg https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2023/02/27/never-work-in-theory-spring-2023/ 1 comment
- Software Engineering Research Topics · The Third Bit https://third-bit.com/2022/08/30/research-topics/ 0 comments
- Empirical Software Engineering Papers http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/empirical-software-engineering-papers.html 0 comments
- What We Know We Don't Know: Empirical Software Engineering https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/ese/ 0 comments