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Ben Watson writes Philosophical Geek, a personal blog at philosophicalgeek.com about programming and career. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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Code and musings by Ben Watson. I'm a Bing developer in Washington.

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  1. Submitted My Interview Experience at Microsoft as a story · 39 points

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  2. Submitted How to work an 8-hour day as a story · 29 points

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  3. Submitted Reasons to use Bing as a story · 18 points

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  4. Submitted 6 Ways to Increase Your Confidence As You Code as a story · 14 points

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  5. Submitted 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers as a story · 8 points

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  6. Submitted 4 Principles of Not Wasting Time as a story · 6 points

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  7. Submitted Announcing Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Digging into .NET Loop Performance, Bounds-checking, Iteration, and Unrolling as a story · 4 points

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  9. Submitted 5 More Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted The Effective Software Developer's Book List as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Announcing Microsoft.IO.RecycableMemoryStream as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Tips for Writing a Programming Book as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted How to Write and Publish a Technical Book and Not Lose Your Sanity as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted How To Debug GC Issues Using PerfView as a story · 1 points

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