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David Albert

Personal blog · dave.is · on HN as davidbalbertstartupscareerprogramming

David Albert's personal blog at dave.is covers startups, career and programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2010–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Cited in one HN comment as one of the founders' blogs, offered as support for a point about the Hacker School. The comment does not discuss the writing itself.

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.

The author on HN?

davidbalbert · 2,447 karma · member since 2009

Writing software that runs above the Karman line at K2 Space (k2space.com) Cofounder of the Recurse Center (YCS10) https://www.recurse.com/ https://dave.is/

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What Hacker News says?

  1. The blogs of the founders, enough for my point: http://unschooled.org/ http://dave.is/

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    on “The Hacker School Experience”
  2. Submitted An Open Letter To Business People as a story · 159 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A hacker's guide to college as a story · 153 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Apple is professional, the web is amateur as a story · 148 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted What we’ve learned from Hacker School as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted When should you start a startup? as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Staying Silent as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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