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blog.harterrt.com
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blog.harterrt.com is a personal blog at blog.harterrt.com about data and career. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Data Intuition Case Study: Grain-Free Dog Food”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a Why Dark didn't choose Rust thread to a post titled coding_in_textboxes, cited in a discussion of whether a text-based coding tool can keep appeal when users lose their editor plugins.
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.
Harter writes about data
Most-linked posts?
- Data Intuition Case Study: Grain-Free Dog Food2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-18
- Defining Data Intuition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-21
What Hacker News says?
For clarity, I wrote up my thoughts here [0]. The issue I pointed out applies to Federal as well as State taxes. By my calculations, it looks like it's clearly not worth it to move to the Bay Area. [0] http://blog.harterrt.com/is-moving-to-the-bay-area-worth-it....
Comment linking /is-moving-to-the-bay-area-worth-it.html
on “Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?”Submitted Opportunity Sizing: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? as a story · 64 points
HN discussionOf course, the hazard is that you then have to deal with offering a value proposition that's still appealing after adjusting for your target userbase having to give up all the plugins and tweaks they configured into their editors. https://blog.harterrt.com/coding_in_textboxes.html
Comment linking /coding_in_textboxes.html
on “Why Dark didn't choose Rust”Submitted Defining Data Intuition as a story · 41 points
HN discussionAuthor here. I fully support prioritizing a project because it's fun! We need to own that rationale though. In OP's situation, it sounds like their counterpart is trying to argue that this project is a "good thing to do" for the user/system. In reality, it's a bit of code hygiene that makes it more fun to do work (still important [1]). That dissonance hides the true value of the work and makes it difficult to reason…
Comment linking /bad-tools
on “Opportunity Sizing: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?”Submitted Data Intuition Case Study: Grain-Free Dog Food as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe other posters are right, we're not going to be able to give you general OKRs that work everywhere. It's important that your goals ladder up into your companies goals. I just wrote a piece on how to break down corporate goals into something that's meaningful for you and your team [1]. If you're having a hard time figuring out what your goals should be it might be that your company's goals are too broad and need t…
Comment linking /cascading_metrics.html
on “Ask HN: What are useful OKRs and KPIs for SWEs”Submitted Data Intuition Case Study: Grain-Free Dog Food and Heart Disease as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leading with Data: Cascading Metrics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leading with Data – Cascading Metrics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Bother with Controlled Experiments? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defining Data Intuiton as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Stages of Experiment Analysis as a story · 1 points
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