[codex]

I've seen a trend in HN where the comments from a previous story are cherry picked by a third party and turned into a blog post, which is then submitted to HN. It could be coincidence, but it looks like that's what happened here. The counter-argument is that great minds think alike.

[jasonwatkinspdx]

I'm the author of the gist. The submitter is a good friend of mine that felt like posting it, and I don't mind.

It was a reply I made to another friend and previous co-worker on twitter a while back that was talking about software estimation. It wasn't a comment on any other blog post or hackernews story.

I was thinking I should edit and elaborate on it into a full blog post at some point, but that would also require setting up a blog ;P I didn't take the time to write this up to the standards of an adversarial blog aggregation audience. And I don't care to defend it as such or in detail. It's meant to outline a broad point I think is true, but not to be ironclad in it's argument.

Anyhow, no cherry picking or anything unethical going on here.

[vezzy-fnord]

This particular entry looks more like someone just read The Mythical Man-Month and decided to write something about the philosophy of software project management afterwards.

Not that it's necessarily bad, but it is formulaic.