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Alan Pierce

Personal blog · alangpierce.com/blog · on HN as alangpierceprogrammingweb

Alan Pierce's personal blog at alangpierce.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “BigBingo: Khan Academy's New BigQuery-backed A/B Testing Framework”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2014–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The comments are Khan Academy job listings from HN "Who is hiring" threads and never mention this blog or its posts, so HN's reason for linking it cannot be determined from them.

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This is a cross-post of a post of a post I made to the Benchling Engineering blog. See the original post. The world of frontend development evolves …

The author on HN?

alangpierce · 2,122 karma · member since 2012

Software Engineer at Benchling https://github.com/alangpierce http://www.alangpierce.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. BigBingo: Khan Academy's New BigQuery-backed A/B Testing Framework
    4 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2014-07-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (remote possible) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Millions of people in all walks of life use our free platform to learn (check out testimonials at https://www.khanacademy.org/stories ). Most of you reading this are probably familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers and a huge l…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-academys-new-bigquery-backed-a-b-testing-framework/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)”
  2. Submitted BigBingo: Khan Academy's New BigQuery-backed A/B Testing Framework as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  3. Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (remote possible) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Millions of people in all walks of life use our free educational platform to learn (check out some testimonials at https://www.khanacademy.org/stories ). Most of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, par…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-academys-new-bigquery-backed-a-b-testing-framework/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”
  4. Submitted BigBingo: Khan Academy's New BigQuery-backed A/B Testing Framework as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Here's a testimonial we received last week: ================================== I just want to say thank you a billion times to Khan Academy. My Geometry midterm was this Tuesday. I was worried, because I barely passed my Algebra one la…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-academys-new-bigquery-backed-a-b-testing-framework/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)”
  6. Submitted Adventures in Go: Accessing Unexported Functions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Here's a testimonial we received last week: ================================== Thank you Khan Academy for igniting the passion to learn everything which I usually neglected and missed during my academic carrier. Though myself should be…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-academys-new-bigquery-backed-a-b-testing-framework/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)”
  8. Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (remote possible) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Millions of people in all walks of life use our free platform to learn (check out testimonials at https://www.khanacademy.org/stories ). Most of you reading this are probably familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers and a huge l…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-academys-new-bigquery-backed-a-b-testing-framework/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”
  9. Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (remote possible) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Millions of people in all walks of life use our free educational platform to learn (check out some testimonials at https://www.khanacademy.org/stories ). Most of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, par…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-academys-new-bigquery-backed-a-b-testing-framework/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)”
  10. khanacademy.org - Mountain View, CA - remote is a possibility Non-profit trying to change education. A note we got last week: ================================== I only have a bachelor's degree in IT and I can only find "boring" jobs because of that even if my actual job can seem cool on paper. I watched Cosmos and other sciences/physics stuff and was always amazed by that kind of knowledge. I tried to understand a b…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-academys-new-bigquery-backed-a-b-testing-framework/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)”
  11. Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Here's a testimonial we received last week: ================================== I am 52. I returned to school almost twenty years ago and did quite well--but I had taken care of all my math requirements 15 years before that and my degre…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-academys-new-bigquery-backed-a-b-testing-framework/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)”
  12. Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Here's a testimonial we received last week: ================================== I have been using your site for almost three years now. I am a 9th grade homeschooler who has always done okay in math, but I had some major gaps and lacked…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-aca..

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)”
  13. Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (remote possible) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Millions of people in all walks of life use our free platform to learn (check out testimonials at https://www.khanacademy.org/stories ). Most of you reading this are probably familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers and a huge l…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-academys-new-bigquery-backed-a-b-testing-framework/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”

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