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Brent Ozar
Personal blog · ozar.medatacareerbusiness
Brent Ozar's personal blog at ozar.me covers data, career and business. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brent Ozar's posts about his own experiences: returning a Surface RT, getting an Iceland teleworker visa, splitting up a consulting firm, and database benchmark pitfalls.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sharing what I learn about community and consulting.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-27
- Whew. We Got Iceland Teleworker Visas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-26
- What It’s Like to Work for a Bad Contracting Company2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-08
What Hacker News says?
I'm in Iceland for 6 months on their new teleworker visa. It took a couple of months to get, but it's pretty straightforward: https://ozar.me/2021/01/whew-we-got-iceland-teleworker-visas...
Comment linking /2021/01/whew-we-got-iceland-teleworker-visas/
on “Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]”Submitted Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT as a story · 361 points
HN discussionBrent the author here. No, I did not expect the Surface to be as productive as a Windows laptop, but I did expect that Word would be able to keep up with me while I type - just as any other modern device is. I'm not asking to do 3D renderings, just to type a document. For what it's worth, I also wrote about why I was preordering it here: http://ozar.me/2012/10/why-i-preordered-a-microsoft-surface-...
Comment linking /2012/10/why-i-preordered-a-microsoft-surface-rt/
on “Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT”Submitted Tolerating the Surface Pro as a story · 42 points
HN discussionHere's the questions we thought through when our 3-person consulting firm split up: https://ozar.me/2015/12/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-out-your-pa... The first thing to do is read the startup's legal agreements. In our case, when we started the company, we agreed that partners (owners) could not participate in a business that competed with our own. You could leave at any time and do something competitive - but if you…
Comment linking /2015/12/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-out-your-partners/
on “Ask HN: How to leave a startup when you own a third of it?”Submitted What It’s Like to Work for a Bad Contracting Company as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI had a lot of problems when I tried to use the Surface RT for that use case. Here was my review: http://ozar.me/2012/10/why-im-returning-my-microsoft-surface...
Comment linking /2012/10/why-im-returning-my-microsoft-surface-rt/
on “Tolerating the Surface Pro”Submitted Whew. We Got Iceland Teleworker Visas as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> I also realized that storage's performance had very little to do with the benchmark's scores as in order to game the benchmark one would simply add more memory. Reminds me of the time [1] Fusion-IO showed how good their drives were for SQL Server by running benchmarks with just 16GB of RAM enabled, even though the servers had 384GB RAM. Under direct questioning, they admitted that if you just used the rest of the…
Comment linking /2014/06/fact-checking-24-hours-of-pass/
on “Common Pitfalls in Database Performance Testing (2018) [pdf]”Submitted 6 sentence emails that are easy to answer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What It’s Like to Work for a Bad Contracting Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Company-Startup Thing Worked Out for Me, Year 3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Company Startups and me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s the Difference Between Contractor and Consultant and FTE? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Immovable Ladder and Legacy Software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Measure Your Career as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Do a Successful Lightning Talk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good News about SQL Server Standard Edition's Limits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consulting: Startup or Lifestyle Business? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Have Learned About Job Searching as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Fast Should the Developer's SQL Server Be? as a story · 1 points
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