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Foredecker
Personal blog · foredecker.wordpress.com · on HN as Foredeckercareerprogramming
Foredecker is a personal blog at foredecker.wordpress.com about career and programming. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Working At Microsoft–20% Time and Prototypes”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post describes day-to-day coding at Microsoft. The one comment discusses the working life it portrays and does not judge 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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Working At Microsoft–20% Time and Prototypes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-28
What Hacker News says?
When the first few lines tell me about how surprised I will be, I expected to hear that people are encouraged to be creative, take risks, try working on project that might end up going nowhere -- in other words, that they promote a hacker culture. Unfortunately, the things that the author focused on are not inspiring. Being able to paint your office? Great, but how about week-long hackathons where people can code on…
Comment linking /2011/02/27/working-at-microsoft20-time-and-prototypes/
on “Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding”Submitted Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding as a story · 288 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working At Microsoft–20% Time and Prototypes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Developers: The Team Prima Donna as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding « Foredecker as a story · 1 points
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