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Personal blog · hicks-wright.net/blogcareerprogramming

Hello! is a personal blog at hicks-wright.net about career and programming. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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16mentions?
9HN people?
2009–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2010

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. tghw · 2010-03-31
    I gave it a shot of my own. I didn't do all the permutations, and surely left out big swaths that I've never even thought of, but it's a start... http://hicks-wright.net/blog/stupid-american-website-owners/

    Comment linking /blog/stupid-american-website-owners/

    on “Dear American Website Owner”
  2. gecko · 2009-07-15

    Submitted How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1 as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  3. memset · 2010-09-10
    I almost feel bad for posting this link, but it does provide some evidence that even at Fog Creek - the Holy Grail of great engineering environments - employees become burned out due to the fact that, hey, a lot of software problems need to be solved in a business are just as boring as the ones that the rest of us cube farmers have to solve. http://hicks-wright.net/blog/career-break/

    Comment linking /blog/career-break/

    on “Some tidbits from Joel Spolsky's talk last night on recruiting programmers”
  4. tghw · 2009-07-01

    Submitted Your Résumé Won't Get You Hired as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  5. johns · 2010-04-01

    Submitted Stupid American Website Owners as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  6. gecko · 2009-07-06

    Submitted Job Applications and the Entitlement Complex as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  7. tghw · 2009-05-20

    Submitted My Language Features Are Your Libraries as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  8. tghw · 2009-08-27

    Submitted How to Get a Job at Fog Creek Part 2: The Phone Screen as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  9. redrory · 2011-09-04

    Submitted How to get a job at a startup - 2009 as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  10. spolsky · 2010-02-10

    Submitted Coworkers Make You More Productive as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. tghw · 2009-09-02

    Submitted Programming Interviews at Fog Creek as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  12. swah · 2011-07-22

    Submitted Lean Development: From Zero to Launch in Six Weeks: Hicks-Wright.net as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. johns · 2010-02-10

    Submitted Coworkers Make You More Productive as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. teuobk · 2011-07-22

    Submitted Lean Development: From Zero to Launch in Six Weeks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. tghw · 2010-07-21

    Submitted Cheeky Python: A Redis CLI as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. mattyb · 2010-03-31

    Submitted Stupid American Website Owners as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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