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Yegor Bugayenko
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Yegor Bugayenko's personal blog at yegor256.com covers programming and career. Since 2014, 116 different Hacker News readers have linked it 444 times, most often “OOP Alternative to Utility Classes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it, 3 are critical?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Yegor Bugayenko's posts on OOP, code review, standups and management, usually as supporting references in threads on those topics. Several commenters cite him as a reference for OOP critique and team management.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- One commenter says his management post is worth reading and that the team-motivation post is a good read. Another calls his articles on OOP very good on topic.
- Criticised for · 3 comments
- One commenter says the -er naming post makes a class a function masquerading as one. Another says his claim that null is bad is contradictory. A third says his
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Yegor Bugayenko blogging about object-oriented programming, Java, project management, philosophy, and startup investments; at least one new post every week.
Most-linked posts?
- OOP Alternative to Utility Classes5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-05-05
- Getters/Setters. Evil. Period. (2014)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-09-16
- ORM is an offensive anti-pattern4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-12-01
- Daily Stand-Up Injection of Guilt4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-09-03
- Continuous Integration is Dead3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-10-10
- /2016/08/15/what-is-wrong-object-oriented-programming.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-20
- How Much Do You Cost?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-11-14
- To Be Nice or Not to Be Nice? (2017)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-14
- How much do you pay per line of code?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-10-24
- What's Wrong with Object-Oriented Programming?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-19
What Hacker News says?
Other people have already mentioned Joe Armstrong's 2003 thesis, and I recommend that too. I very much appreciate Armstrong's sometimes contrarian criticism of the tech industry, and I hope I managed to match the tenor of his frustration when I wrote "Joe Armstrong figured out the right way to do everything, and nobody cared" http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/joe-armstrong-figured... About this: " I mentioned h…
Comment linking /2016/08/15/what-is-wrong-object-oriented-programming.html
on “Joe Armstrong has died”Submitted Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters as a story · 892 points
HN discussionJust be prepared to say NO, this is what a good reviewer is all about: https://www.yegor256.com/2015/02/09/serious-code-reviewer.ht...
Comment linking /2015/02/09/serious-code-reviewer.html
on “How to do a code review”Submitted Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore as a story · 379 points
HN discussion>Standups are actually useful for keeping an eye on the newbies. daily updates are a chore and pretty useless rather than for the "manager" who has to check on people's work. I have been in places where we had one update every week or every other week and that was the proof (along with other places I have seen) that daily update is just a waste of time. This article summarises it for me "Daily Stand-Up Meetings Are…
Comment linking /2015/01/08/morning-standup-meetings.html
on “Software engineering topics I changed my mind on”Submitted How to Pay Programmers Less (2016) as a story · 172 points
HN discussionhttp://www.yegor256.com/testimonials.html ?
Comment linking /testimonials.html
on “Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters”Submitted Team Morale: Myths and Reality as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSee his posts How We Interview Programmers [0] and Hacker-vs-Programmer [1] for more insight. It is ironic, then, that the author is claiming that algorithms, and knowledge of them, are unimportant for a programmer. "There is no point in giving me binary-tree-traversing questions; I don't know those answers and will never be interested in learning them." He believes he is a good programmer, and that learning algorit…
Comment linking /2014/10/26/hacker-vs-programmer-mentality.html
on “Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters”Submitted How to pay programmers less as a story · 72 points
HN discussionYou may find this relevant: https://www.yegor256.com/2014/12/01/orm-offensive-anti-patte...
Comment linking /2014/12/01/orm-offensive-anti-pattern.html
on “What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)”Submitted Stop Comparing JSON and XML as a story · 66 points
HN discussion>The daily standup deserves a blog post of its own I found this to be a really good article about standups: http://www.yegor256.com/2015/01/08/morning-standup-meetings....
Comment linking /2015/01/08/morning-standup-meetings.html
on “Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum”Submitted Fluent Interfaces Are Bad for Maintainability as a story · 53 points
HN discussionBy "slave" I mean somebody who is not free in the sense of: >> A free man sells the results of his work. A free man cleans someone's house and bills him when the work is done. A free man drives passengers from the airport to their home and bills them when they get there. A free man creates a software module and bills the client when it's ready. A free man translates a document and bills per page. A free man cooks a…
Comment linking /2015/07/21/hourly-pay-modern-slavery.html
on “Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life”Submitted Jare.io, an Instant and Free CDN as a story · 33 points
HN discussionhttp://martinfowler.com/ http://www.yegor256.com/
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on “Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?”Submitted Good Programmers Don't Work for Equity as a story · 24 points
HN discussionYes, AOP == Aspect Oriented Programming Logging systems can usually be enabled by package/namespace, and frequently to the class level. I've used AOP to log out the trace of the code (not just the call stack), but can turn it on or off as needed. Authentication acting strange? Enable those logging aspects and browse the log to see where things are behaving strangely, and it may not be in the stack trace of the excep…
Comment linking /2014/06/01/aop-aspectj-java-method-logging.html
on “Solid Principles: A Software Developer’s Framework to Robust, Maintainable Code”Submitted One Question You Should Never Ask Your Boss as a story · 23 points
HN discussionHere is my 16 favorite ones: http://www.yegor256.com/2015/04/22/favorite-software-books.h...
Comment linking /2015/04/22/favorite-software-books.html
on “My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part One”Submitted DAO Is yet Another OOP Shame as a story · 18 points
HN discussion> Many OOP programmers today spend the bulk of their time thinking about how their objects should work rather than how they should communicate. Which is the "proof" that OOP was oversold. This is called "structured programming". It's not evil :-) http://www.yegor256.com/2014/05/05/oop-alternative-to-utilit...
Comment linking /2014/05/05/oop-alternative-to-utility-classes.html
on “Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998)”Submitted What's Wrong with Object-Oriented Programming? as a story · 17 points
HN discussionMeetings Are Legalized Robbery ~ https://www.yegor256.com/2015/07/13/meetings-are-legalized-r...
Comment linking /2015/07/13/meetings-are-legalized-robbery.html
on “Japanese Company Charges Its Staff $100 an Hour to Use Conference Rooms”Submitted Continuous Integration is Dead as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI wrote something similar a few months ago: http://www.yegor256.com/2015/03/02/team-morale-myths-and-rea...
Comment linking /2015/03/02/team-morale-myths-and-reality.html
on “Reid Hoffman on the relationship between employers and employees”Submitted How to make a good-looking README for a GitHub repo? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThat OO refactor isn’t actual OO. The tell tale sign is that it is named by what it does rather than what it is (verb vs noun) and the -or ending in the name [0]. It’s just a function masquerading as a class. The better refactor to introduce OO concepts would have been to introduce an isAdult function on the user class and maybe a formatted function. This + the functional refactor probably would have made for the be…
Comment linking /2015/03/09/objects-end-with-er.html
on “Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring”Submitted Tech Journalism Sucks as a story · 14 points
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