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Jason A. Hoffman
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Jason A. Hoffman's personal blog at fullhoffman.com covers startups, ai and career. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Sun Doesn't Shine on Me (2006)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by commenters in a thread on What Sun got wrong, as Jason A. Hoffman's blog entry on Sun's structural problems. Comments also discuss Sun's sales process and the anecdote it cites.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Sun Doesn't Shine on Me (2006)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-09-21
What Hacker News says?
Well, definitely read Jason's blog entry that I linked to[0], which gets into the structural problems. To be clear, there were some extraordinary sales folks at Sun (as was said to me when I first came to Sun: "Remember that our sales folks are so good that they sold Solaris 2.3 on Viking!"), and I always personally got along very well with them. I was happy to be put in front of customers, and they were happy to us…
Comment linking /2006/03/20/the-sun-doesnt-shine-on-me/
on “What Sun got wrong”Submitted The Sun Doesn't Shine on Me (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you click through to the anecdote[0] mentioned in the article, the problem was not with having to contact a sales rep. In fact the startup wanted a sales rep. Sun specifically asked them to use the website: > More than once though, the Sun people did suggest I just buy the servers off the web site. Dell was just the only one to callback. I don't doubt your experience but that was at the height of Sun's business,…
Comment linking /2006/03/20/the-sun-doesnt-shine-on-me/
on “What Sun got wrong”Submitted The Sun Doesn't Shine on Me (2006) as a story · 2 points
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