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Derrick Ko

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Derrick Ko's personal blog at blog.derrickko.com covers startups and career. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Why should I start my career at Microsoft, rather than a startup?”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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25mentions?
8HN people?
2012–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 22 in 2012

Derrick Ko | Product Manager at Lyft. Product guy. Founded a startup.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why should I start my career at Microsoft, rather than a startup?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. OP here. I've spent some time at Microsoft, and have only good things to say about my experience. My qualm isn't with the company, but rather, the content, approach and flippant tone of Kevin's post. Having previously worked there, that's not something I'd expect from the company, which is disappointing. (cross posted this back to http://blog.derrickko.com/microsoft-and-startups )

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    on “Why should I start my career at Microsoft, rather than a startup?”
  2. Submitted Why should I start my career at Microsoft, rather than a startup? as a story · 48 points

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  3. Submitted Great Startup Engineers as a story · 41 points

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  4. Submitted Why You Should Test Your CSS as a story · 31 points

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  5. Submitted Yes, Designers and Engineers Can Play Nice as a story · 10 points

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  6. Submitted Anything But Engineering as a story · 10 points

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  7. Submitted What is App.net to you? as a story · 8 points

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  8. Submitted Google Analytics' Open Secret as a story · 8 points

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  9. Submitted What We Can Learn From In-N-Out’s Brilliant Campaign as a story · 7 points

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  10. Submitted What is App.net to you? as a story · 4 points

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  11. Submitted 10,000 hours doesn't make you an expert as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Action.IO could be a game changer as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted An Open Letter to Angel's Gate as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted 850 million. Trained. Let's take advantage of it. as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted There's no better time to start a company. But should you? as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted Startup Employees: Understand Your Offer as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted No, the iPhone isn't boring as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted No, the iPhone isn't boring. as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Simplicity as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Apple's note is a great rallying call for startups as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Startups Mess with Maslow as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted How to make design and engineering work together effectively as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Living With Dignity as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Why a Bayesian average in your rating system may be a bad idea as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted With Instagram, Facebook bought emotion as a story · 1 points

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