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Deirdré Straughan
Personal blog · beginningwithi.comcareercultureprogramming
Deirdré Straughan writes Countries Beginning with I, a personal blog at beginningwithi.com about career, culture and programming. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Why Move to Australia?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts about moving a US tech job to Australia and about Australia's new mass surveillance mandate. One commenter also mentions the author's book on performance.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Move to Australia?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-29
What Hacker News says?
This is going to happen sooner or later, the pandemic accelerated it, exploiting and abusing the liberty of people will be the new norm - 1984. Observation: at least in NSW it seems that most people trust the government and cooperate with government orders (Digital Tran formation for public service is on the right track, see the delivery of digital driver licence and all other perks and all other self-service integr…
Comment linking /category/women-in-technology/
on “Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate”Submitted Problematic Employers in Tech as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI read Brendan's book on performance in order to prep for an SRE role. Awesome tips and it showed a whole new world! Also the blog post he's referencing is from my (European) perspective very understandable [1]. I get their move, I'd probably have done the same in their position. [1] https://www.beginningwithi.com/2020/12/01/why-move-to-austra...
Comment linking /2020/12/01/why-move-to-australia/
on “Moving my US tech job to Australia”Submitted Statistics & Visualizations: Two Lighting Talks by Brendan Gregg as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Letting Go of a Beloved Technology as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote work: the real estate factor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Move to Australia? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why a Systems Performance Book? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Work vs. the Costs of Commuting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pirating Music as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Move to Australia? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux Performance Analysis and Tools diagram as a story · 1 points
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