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Cain Maddox

Personal blog · leftalign.substack.comprogrammingcareerculture

Cain Maddox writes Left Align, a personal blog at leftalign.substack.com about programming, career and culture. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Are tech interviews broken – or is the cruelty the point?”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Are tech interviews broken – or is the cruelty the point?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Are tech interviews broken – or is the cruelty the point? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Are tech interviews broken – or is the cruelty the point? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted “JSON supports strings, therefore JSON supports comments” as a story · 2 points

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