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James McParlane

Personal blog · blog.metawrap.combusinessculture

James McParlane's personal blog at blog.metawrap.com covers business and culture. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The comments are profiles from HN "Who wants to be hired" threads that link the site. They say nothing about the writing, so the linked posts' subject is not described.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

More fun than a room full of nuns with Tourette's syndrome

What Hacker News says?

  1. DrMiaow · 2024-07-02
    Location: Beijing, China Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, but.... due to my unique diplomatic status, I cannot relocate unless the price is right. I don't need to work, but I will for the right project or company. Technologies: C, C++, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React, WEBASM, NGINX, SQL, Redis, Python, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, CUDA, Video Encoding, Jupyter, PyTorch, LLMs, MPEG (Lo…

    Comment linking /1994/12/28/resume-of-james-mc-parlane/

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)”
  2. bigiain · 2011-04-18

    Submitted The Internet and the TV industry as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. DrMiaow · 2024-08-02
    Location: Beijing, China (Australian) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, but.... due to my unique diplomatic status, I cannot relocate unless the price is right. I don't need to work, but I will for the right project or company. Technologies: C, C++, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React, WEBASM, NGINX, SQL, Redis, Python, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, CUDA, Video Encoding, Jupyter, PyTorch, L…

    Comment linking /1994/12/28/resume-of-james-mc-parl

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)”
  4. My64K · 2013-09-25

    Submitted SteamOS, “The Model” and Why Everyone Wants to be Apple as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. DrMiaow · 2013-08-15

    Submitted Online video will soon be better quality than digital television. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. DrMiaow · 2013-08-13

    Submitted HEVC(H.265) + UHDTV(4K) – What Does It Mean for IPTV? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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