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Brandon Keepers
Personal blog · opensoul.orgprogrammingweb
Brandon Keepers's personal blog at opensoul.org covers programming and web. Since 2008, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “What's it like to work at GitHub?”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brandon Keepers' posts on a Backbone.js talk, sortable lists with float rank keys in Ruby, and GitHub's model for remote team management. One commenter found a linked talk helpful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Open source advocate, speaker, developer
Most-linked posts?
- What's it like to work at GitHub?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-05
- The world runs on bad software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-28
- Sortable lists in key-value data stores2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-06
- Don't should on yourself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-17
What Hacker News says?
I found this talk from BackboneConf helpful: http://opensoul.org/blog/archives/2012/05/16/the-plight-of-p... It basically expands on what Jeremy said.
Comment linking /blog/archives/2012/05/16/the-plight-of-pinocchio/
on “Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide”Submitted The $40 Standup Desk as a story · 206 points
HN discussionIt appears as if rank is stored as a float. The rank can quickly get to be a very, very small number. It seems at some point, float precision might be an issue and/or length of the rank key. Have you run into this and/or do you have solutions? Brandon Keepers wrote about trying this idea in Ruby http://opensoul.org/blog/archives/2011/09/06/sortable-lists-... and ran into a float precision issue (see comment).
Comment linking /blog/archives/2011/09/06/sortable-lists-in-key-value-data-stores/
on “Previewing Meteor's new rendering engine: reactive sortable lists”Submitted What's it like to work at GitHub? as a story · 172 points
HN discussionIf I wasn't being four hour work-week'd, then github's model for remote management is great: http://opensoul.org/blog/archives/2012/06/05/whats-it-like-t... . My advice is for a team from an old school ad agency where folks aren't really interested in working to begin with.
Comment linking /blog/archives/2012/06/05/whats-it-like-to-work-at-github/
on “The 10 Commandments for Remote Team Management”Submitted Lessons learned from a cancelled project as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Sublime Text 2 as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSubmitted HAML: the unforgivable sin as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't criticize, condemn or complain as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted The world runs on bad software as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git: the NoSQL Database as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carbon, Automobiles, Bebop, and Fashion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A GIF is worth a thousand screenshots as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abusing Rails I18N to Set Page Titles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub acquires Ordered List as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Fatigue as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sortable lists in key-value data stores as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pusher notifications with EventMachine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live Search with knockout.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 99 ways to ruin an open source project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the importance of junk drawers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby at GitHub as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Siri, add toilet paper to the shopping list" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Convert a GitHub Issue Into a Pull Request as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Our Code Smells as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Releasing multiple gems from one repository as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Validation Anti-Pattern as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The world runs on bad software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Run JSLint with your Jasmine suite as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Should on Yourself as a story · 1 points
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