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Eduard Sizov

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Eduard Sizov's personal blog at sizovs.net covers programming and career. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Great developers are raised, not hired”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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34mentions?
13HN people?
2018–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

The one comment does not discuss the writing. It notes the site URL on a social media account in an HN thread about a male tech conference founder behind a popular woman coding influencer account.

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.

Eduard Sizov blogging about programming, career, soft skills for experienced developers; at least one new post every month.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Great developers are raised, not hired
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-13
  2. Stop Learning Frameworks
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-12-17
  3. /
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://sizovs.net

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    on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”
  2. Submitted Great developers are raised, not hired as a story · 620 points

    HN discussion
  3. Ah, I didn't notice the URL ( https://sizovs.net )! So yeah, classic sockpuppeting indeed.

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    on “Male Tech Conference Founder Is Behind Popular Woman Coding Influencer Account”
  4. Submitted Stop Learning Frameworks as a story · 515 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Principal Developer as a story · 72 points

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  6. Submitted Job Promotion is a Trap as a story · 51 points

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  7. Submitted Developers don't need ping-pong tables as a story · 48 points

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  8. Submitted Developer Conferences as a story · 24 points

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  9. Submitted Great developers are raised, not hired as a story · 23 points

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  10. Submitted Books for Software Developers as a story · 10 points

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  11. Submitted The Well-Balanced Developer as a story · 10 points

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  12. Submitted Great developers are raised, not hired as a story · 9 points

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  13. Submitted I never liked technical interviews as a story · 6 points

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  14. Submitted Code Review – From Good to Great as a story · 5 points

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  15. Submitted Fear of Becoming a Manager as a story · 4 points

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  16. Submitted You Are Not a Software Developer as a story · 4 points

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  17. Submitted The Red Line as a story · 3 points

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  18. Submitted Job Promotion is a Trap as a story · 3 points

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  19. Submitted Be a Good Interviewer as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Without Engineering Mentor, your Scrum is messed up as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Code Review – From Good to Great as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Great developers are raised, not hired as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted Stop Learning Frameworks as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Choose Boring Tools as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Java Libraries I Like as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Stop Learning Frameworks as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted The Wolves of IT as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Welcome to your weekly sprint retrospective as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted When You Want to Quit as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Why Quality Is Important as a story · 1 points

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