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algeri-wong.com
Personal blog · algeri-wong.com/yishancareerstartupsprogramming
algeri-wong.com is a personal blog at algeri-wong.com about career, startups and programming. Since 2010, 50 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “Engineering management at Facebook”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (27) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Yishan Wong's essays on engineering management, including tools, process and career advice. Commenters point to them as guidance for running software teams and say they have benefited from them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 27 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Engineering management at Facebook12 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2010-09-19
- Great Unsolved Problem In Computer Science9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2011-02-04
- Engineering Management - Tools Are Top Priority8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-02-18
- Let process be implemented by those who practice it6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-09-19
- Career Success: Focus primarily on making everyone around you succeed6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-01-05
- Encrypting Your Plaintext Passwords2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-09
- The Engineering IT Supply Manifesto2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-12
- Engineering Management (lessons from Facebook) (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-26
- Things I Learned from My Wife's Screenwriting Education2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-20
- /yishan/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-18
What Hacker News says?
Yishan Wong talks about this here http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html It is also my Bible. Yet to find a place that runs like that.
Comment linking /yishan/engineering-management.html
on “My Biggest Regret as a Programmer”Submitted Engineering management at Facebook as a story · 238 points
HN discussionSeconded! If you haven't already seen it: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/great-unsolved-problems-in-com...
Comment linking /yishan/great-unsolved-problems-in-computer-science.html
on “Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox”Submitted Great Unsolved Problem In Computer Science as a story · 155 points
HN discussionTools are top priority. You must read this: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-a...
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on “Osquery: Expose the operating system as a relational database”Submitted Let process be implemented by those who practice it as a story · 31 points
HN discussionMore people need to read Yishan Wongs articles about this. Mostly because I want more work places with his methods :( http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html
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on “Engineering management lessons”Submitted How facebook managed growth from 30 to 200 engineers as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI feel like it's relevant to point out that Yishan, Reddit's CEO, has written some of the most thoughtful advice on engineering management. I have personally benefited a lot from his thoughts on this: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html
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on “Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit”Submitted Facebook engineering management essays by Yishan Wong as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you haven't read "Great unsolved problems in computer science", I'd highly recommend it: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/great-unsolved-problems-in-com... TL;DR: calendaring is hard. really hard.
Comment linking /yishan/great-unsolved-problems-in-computer-science.html
on “Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time”Submitted Career Success: Focus primarily on making everyone around you succeed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSee also Yishan Wong's "Let process be implemented by those who practice it" http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-process...
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on “I don’t believe in sprints”Submitted Great Unsolved Problems in Computer Science as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAngelList - San Francisco, CA We are a small team making a big impact. Naval and Nivi (and really, everyone on the team) have been involved with multiple startups and want to create a community where we can set founders and investors up for success. We’re looking for like-minded, full-stack engineers and designers to join our team. To learn how we work, read up on our blog here: http://venturehacks.com/articles/1-ma…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)”Submitted Engineering Management as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEvery time I read something like this (because experiencing is just to traumatic to remember) I tend to share http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html One day I hope to find some place small that applies that by the 'book'. My personal anecdote was, that no matter how much I tried to persuade the PM that it's a bad idea to put all the platforms (iOS, Web, Android, etc) stories and bugs into one gian…
Comment linking /yishan/engineering-management.html
on “Heisenberg Developers (2014)”Submitted Only God Writes Perfect Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAngelList - San Francisco, CA We are a small team making a big impact. Naval and Nivi (and really, everyone on the team) have been involved with multiple startups and want to create a community where we can set founders and investors up for success. We’re looking for like-minded, full-stack engineers and designers to join our team. To learn how we work, read up on our blog here: http://venturehacks.com/articles/1-ma…
Comment linking /yishan/engineering-management.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)”Submitted Let Process Be Implemented by Those Who Practice It (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOf all the "big companies" I've seen, Facebook has the best internal IT. A lot of those policies were set by Yishan Wong; basically, if something can be done more efficiently by an individual employee than by using IT, the process is broken. ( http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/ ) Facebook IT is basically a cache, but if something is faster to get from the Apple Store or whatever, that's how they did it -- not sure how i…
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on “Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.”Submitted Engineering Management (lessons from Facebook) (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI guess this is a recurring one: I complained, but I eventually gave in. As we grew, it was harder and harder to maintain our informal processes. (I remember a real inflection point at about 50-60 employees, and another at about 100.) We gradually gave up our homegrown way of doing things, and accepted normal HR practices — vacation and sick days, regular reviews, annual salary adjustments — and bit by bit, I let th…
Comment linking /yishan/engineering-management-process.html
on “Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed”Submitted Great Unsolved Problems in Computer Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNotes on screenplay structures by Reddit's CEO Yishan Wong http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/things-i-learned-from-my-wifes... Vladimir Propp was the original pioneer of narrative structures, published the foundational research on fairytale sequences in 1928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp
Comment linking /yishan/things-i-learned-from-my-wifes-screenwriting-education-part-i.html
on “The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood”Submitted Engineering Management – Process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you automate that process - maybe spit the screenshots into weekly emails or a dashboard - and people start working specifically to improve those numbers then you just might have a greater aggregate impact on revenues than the 1/size_of_your_team you presumably have now [1]. [1] http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-a...
Comment linking /yishan/engineering-management-tools-are-top-priority.html
on “You're crap and paid too much for the little work you actually do”Submitted Tools Are Top Priority as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI love his career philosophy: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/the-secret-to-career-success.h...
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on “Why Did Yishan Wong Resign as Reddit CEO?”Submitted The Secret to Career Success as a story · 2 points
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