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Adam Erlebacher
Personal blog · erlebacher.orgstartupsbusiness
Adam Erlebacher's personal blog at erlebacher.org covers startups and business. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Time Scales”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Adam Erlebacher's 2011 post on time scales to frame career disillusionment in programming, separating small coding challenges from problems that make a big impact.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Time Scales2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-23
What Hacker News says?
There are problems to solve, and there are Problems to solve. Are you looking to conquer a new programming challenge -- develop stuff nobody's done before from a coding standpoint? Or are you looking to make a big impact in a way that hasn't been done before? Please read this blog post. Does it get at some of what you're talking about? http://erlebacher.org/2011/03/22/time-scales/ If so, I get it. Let's talk.
Comment linking /2011/03/22/time-scales/
on “Becoming disillusioned in the programming profession – please help”Submitted Thingd is building a structured database of every object in the world as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time Scales as a story · 2 points
HN discussion