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Global Nerdy
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Global Nerdy is a personal blog at globalnerdy.com about programming and career. Since 2007, 96 different Hacker News readers have linked it 125 times, most often “Org Charts of the Big Tech Companies (2011)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Suneel Pillai's blog mostly for its org-chart meme and older programming and tech-history posts, such as FizzBuzz, Laws of Software Development and early Forth and retro computing material. The comments cite it rather than praise the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 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?
- Org Charts of the Big Tech Companies (2011)9 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2021-10-05
- Laws of Software Development5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-01-16
- /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/microsoft-org-chart.jpg4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-12-08
- FizzBuzz Still Works4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-11-15
- The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-12-31
- /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/forth_on_the_atari.jpg2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-17
- Windows Phone Predictions that IDC, Gartner & Pyramid Research Hope You Forgot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-07
- /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/150_extra_engineers_thumb.jpg2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-05
- /2007/09/14/reimagining-programming-book-covers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-15
- DHH's keynote at Rails World: "The most confusing funeral I've ever experienced"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-28
What Hacker News says?
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Comment linking /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/jobs-flips-off-ibm.jpg
on “Apple M3 Ultra”Submitted New Programming Jargon as a story · 106 points
HN discussionOracle is a lawyer company[0]. Trademarks and patents are lawyers' weapons. You don't donate nuclear warheads to your enemies. [0] https://www.globalnerdy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/oracl... (can't find original XKCD, sorry)
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2011/07/oracle-org-chart-manu-cornet.jpg
on “JavaScript Trademark Update”Submitted On Github and Speaking Out as a story · 59 points
HN discussionMicrosoft is a fractal of infighting and groups at war with each other. Cloud Services are cool, and Windows are the weird ones. But within Windows there's the kernel team who are cool and customer-focused, and the User layer as the weird ones. Go another level deeper and you have fights between C++ and .Net, or historically the crusade for COM+. Or the transition to UWP, which clearly at most half the Windows UI te…
Comment linking /2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big-tech-companies-plus-an-enhancement/
on “Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge”Submitted FizzBuzz Still Works as a story · 59 points
HN discussionMoore's Law (on a single CPU core) effectively ended around 2009. Our programming idioms for parallel processing are still so crude, hardly anyone can write maintainable parallelized code for anything but toy problems. Until we can restart Moore's Law again, this is all academic. http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/09/07/multicore-musings/
Comment linking /2007/09/07/multicore-musings/
on “Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People”Submitted The rolling shutter on a digital camera can give interesting effects as a story · 49 points
HN discussionThe Oracle Org Chart by Manu Cornet springs to mind reading this: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big...
Comment linking /2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big-tech-companies-plus-an-enhancement/oracle-org-chart-manu-cornet/
on “It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)”Submitted Assrockets and Opportunities (or: Why I Changed Jobs) as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI don't think Vallejo's art was necessarily limited to the demoscene; in the late 70s/80s that style was very common on video game cover art. Related amusing article: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/09/14/reimagining-programmi...
Comment linking /2007/09/14/reimagining-programming-book-covers/
on “Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene”Submitted How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview With Google as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThis is not a Japanese-only thing. It is a thing so common in America that there is a named test to detect it -- FizzBuzz [+] -- and this test, or one like it, actually catches many people out . [+] c.f. Any of the following and note that they're from the nation of, ahem, conventional engineering culture: http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-dev... http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmer…
Comment linking /2012/11/15/fizzbuzz-still-works/
on “On Secretly Terrible Engineers”Submitted “You’re Trying to Divide by Zero” as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThere are some better lists for laws of Software Development: [1] http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/07/18/laws-of-software-devel... [2] https://exceptionnotfound.net/fundamental-laws-of-software-d... (not so good but with solid discussions from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11574715 ) And more: [3] https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/8/13/timeless-laws-so... (a whole book titled Timeless Laws of Software…
Comment linking /2007/07/18/laws-of-software-development/
on “Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)”Submitted My First Brush with the Music Industry as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAIUI it's some weird legal sleight of hand where they don't (and can't) actually own the Tetris gameplay mechanics, but they have successfully argued in court that the appearance of the game constitutes their trade dress, and in practice you can't really implement the Tetris mechanics without the result looking like Tetris. TTC is the gaming version of Oracle in that one meme[1], 90% of their raison d'etre is just t…
Comment linking /2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big-tech-companies-plus-an-enhancement/
on “Show HN: Lazy Tetris”Submitted What the Heck is Electronic Mail? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionClassic case of shipping the org chart (in case anyone needs a reminder of Microsoft's org chart: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big... )
Comment linking /2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big-tech-companies-plus-an-enhancement/
on “Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper”Submitted It’s About Helping Your Users Become Awesome as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThere's a reason the Microsoft org chart meme exists. https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big...
Comment linking /2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big-tech-companies-plus-an-enhancement/
on “Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs”Submitted HackLabTO’s Lisp Machine Keyboard as a story · 8 points
HN discussion> Also, the ZX81 had the best cover art for any programming manual EVER: Nope. http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/...
Comment linking /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/forth_on_the_atari.jpg
on “David Horne's 1K Chess on the ZX81 (2001)”Submitted DHH's keynote at Rails World: "The most confusing funeral I've ever experienced" as a story · 5 points
HN discussionReminds me of that bug back in 2007 when Google translate would take "sarkozy is chirac" and translate it into "Bush is classless" or other completely different text. http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/23/google-translates-stra...
Comment linking /2007/10/23/google-translates-strange-results/
on “Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "he now praises the ipad"”Submitted CUSEC 2010 Keynote: Reg Braithwaite – “Beautiful Failure” as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAnybody remember these ridiculous predictions from yesteryear: http://www.globalnerdy.com/2012/05/07/the-windows-phone-pred...
Comment linking /2012/05/07/the-windows-phone-predictions-that-idc-gartner-and-pyramid-research-probably-hope-youve-forgotten/
on “Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it”Submitted The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe actual Java implementation: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris... A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853509 FizzBuzz Still Works http://www.globalnerdy.com/2012/11/15/fizzbuzz-still-works/ FizzBuzz with CSS http://dabblet.com/gist/2628265
Comment linking /2012/11/15/fizzbuzz-still-works/
on “Unpythonic Python”Submitted Windows Phone Predictions that IDC, Gartner & Pyramid Research Hope You Forgot as a story · 4 points
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