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brian mayer
Personal blog · brianmayer.comculturecareer
brian mayer's personal blog at brianmayer.com covers culture and career. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “How I Became the Most Hated Person in San Francisco for a Day”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on working around Chrome's content security policy and for a post titled about becoming the most hated person in tech. Comments cite these posts as sources, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
nyc, chicago, san francisco, los angeles, miami
Most-linked posts?
- How I Became the Most Hated Person in San Francisco for a Day2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-04
What Hacker News says?
I'm not saying they're mutually exclusive. I'm saying we're not a capitalist country or a free market country. US "capitalism" is not dependent on the free flow of capital--it's arguably very unfree flow of capital when it seeks out legislatively assigned winners at the expense of taxpayers or worse, corruptively assigned winners at the expense of honest participants in the market. In other words, Adam Smith would b…
Comment linking /2012/07/what-adam-smith-really-said-about-government/
on “The $9B Witness: JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare”Submitted How I Became the Most Hated Person in San Francisco for a Day as a story · 52 points
HN discussionOne example here that's missed but I know from personal experience[0]: the Venda language of South Africa has two different words for "Hello" -- men say "Nda" which literally means "I am a lion," and women say "Aah" which as far as I learned doesn't mean anything in particular. [0] https://brianmayer.com/2012/06/saying-hello-in-limpopo/
Comment linking /2012/06/saying-hello-in-limpopo/
on “Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017)”Submitted Discovering Cuba: Economics, Entrepreneurship, and the Future as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThis is exactly right, from the creator of ReservationHop: "To be honest, I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking through these questions." http://brianmayer.com/2014/07/how-i-became-the-most-hated-pe...
Comment linking /2014/07/how-i-became-the-most-hated-person-in-san-francisco-for-a-day/
on “Stop The JerkTech”Submitted “I Feel Like”: This Has to Stop as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThis change broke our chrome extension a few weeks ago. We were able to workaround it using a trick inspired by this blog post: http://brianmayer.com/2012/12/defeating-chromes-content-secu... Hope it help someone.
Comment linking /2012/12/defeating-chromes-content-security-policy-header-via-a-chrome-extension/
on “Content Security Policy”Submitted A Personal API as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Only Read HN as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted ReservationHop Does a Soft Pivot as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Boston to Ferguson: A Lesson in Passion and Prejudice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Foreign-Born Uber Drivers Recommend Their Favorite Home Cuisines in the Bay Area as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted UX in Sandwich Making as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Letter to Chicago Mayor from Concerned Uber customer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From a Concerned Uber Customer (Chicago) as a story · 1 points
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