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Brandon Savage
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Brandon Savage's personal blog at brandonsavage.net covers programming and career. Since 2009, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Brandon Savage's older post about GitHub as a single point of failure for online infrastructure. The comment cites it as earlier support for its own point about GitHub's outages.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-26
What Hacker News says?
So many services rely on github that it has become a single point of failure for online infrastructure as we’ve come to know it. I remember seeing this shared many years ago [1] and not much seems to have changed in the interim. If anything the MS acquisition has only exacerbated matters. [1] https://www.brandonsavage.net/github-your-single-point-of-fa...
Comment linking /github-your-single-point-of-failure/
on “GitHub was down”Submitted Five Ways To Write Better Code as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Your Site Hacker News Ready? as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted When To Write Bad Code as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Coding Tests Are A Bad Interview Technique as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Successfully Selling Your Own Products as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Github: Your Single Point Of Failure as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Make Your Team’s Code Better as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem With (Technical) Paper Books as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working From Home: Eighteen Months as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- vp · 2009-02-22
Submitted Scaling Up: Baby Steps (a.k.a. Asking The Right Questions) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted Please, Stop Hashing Passwords Yourself as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don’t need a framework as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How using design patterns is like baking a loaf of bread | BrandonSavage.net as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where do you find time to fix bad code? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Always Return Something as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best PHP Blogs to Follow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value In Offering “Time To Tinker” | BrandonSavage.net as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working From Home: Eighteen Months as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's About The Customer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Subversion Still Beats Git as a story · 1 points
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