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Freckle Education

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Freckle Education is the company blog at tech.freckle.com, writing about programming. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Haskell Refactoring Step-Through”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
6HN people?
2018–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Freckle Education's tech blog for its account of hiring Haskell developers. One commenter cites the company's experience of a small Haskell hiring pool.

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 Freckle developer blog

Most-linked posts?

  1. Haskell Refactoring Step-Through
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. "few applicants, most pretty good" was true for us as well when hiring Haskell developers at Freckle ( https://tech.freckle.com/ ) - in some ways it was scary: we're away from the herd, the numbers aren't on our side, what if we ever need to hire large volumes of people? Instead of getting 200 JavaScript devs in the pipeline, you would get maybe 10-20 Haskellers. What if the person you're looking for is not in that…

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    on “Twenty Years of Pandoc”
  2. Submitted Void Is a Smell as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Dueling Rhetoric of Clojure and Haskell (2017) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Ts of Industrial Haskell as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Tagged Is Not a Newtype as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted A Home for Orphan Instances as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Haskell Refactoring Step-Through as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Haskell Refactoring Step-Through as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Evaluating Rio as a story · 1 points

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