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Jeff Barr
Personal blog · jeff-barr.com · on HN as jeffbarrcultureprogramming
Jeff Barr's personal blog at jeff-barr.com covers culture and programming. Since 2007, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “My First 12 Years at Amazon.com”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this as the personal site of Jeff Barr, an AWS evangelist, whose posts cover AWS announcements such as EC2 instance types and S3. The comments only name him as author and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jeff Barr’s Blog
Most-linked posts?
- My First 12 Years at Amazon.com3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-08-19
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-13
- /?page_id=6702 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-21
- IN/MSX: Running 4 Copies of an Operating System at Once (2008)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-02
What Hacker News says?
> I think you misunderstood: the OP is saying that S3 was the only service that Amazon was actually using internally at the time out of the initial AWS service offering, even though AWS as a whole was sold as "the infrastructure that runs Amazon". I can't even find sources of such a claim at the time the first offering of AWS occurred. The claim has made that as of 2010, 100% of amazon.com traffic goes via EC2 which…
Comment linking /2014/08/19/my-first-12-years-at-amazon-dot-com/
on “Amazon Home Services”Submitted Finally, Linux on My Desktop as a story · 83 points
HN discussionBack in the 1980's, I took one of these chips and ran four copies of the same OS on it, using some virtual memory and driver magic. The full story can be found at http://jeff-barr.com/2008/01/08/inmsx-running-4-copies-of-an... .
Comment linking /2008/01/08/inmsx-running-4-copies-of-an-operating-system-at-once/
on “Motorola M68000 Family Programmer’s Reference Manual (1992) [pdf]”Submitted My First 12 Years at Amazon.com as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI've done my best to not obfuscate my email address. If the situation dictates, I will even post it on Twitter without obfuscating it in any way. I probably do this at least once per week. We have plenty of defined support vehicles, but every so often someone needs extra-special help and I do my best to oblige. I probably get 30 or so pieces of spam per day, all of which ends up in my Junk folder with no effort on m…
Comment linking /?page_id=670
on “Does email address obfuscation actually work?”Submitted IN/MSX: Running 4 Copies of an Operating System at Once (2008) as a story · 65 points
HN discussionDid someone say programming quotes? Here's my collection, many dating back to the 80's and 90's: http://www.jeff-barr.com/~jeff/quotes.txt A few of those are from my kids and from colleagues; most are from Usenet and random mailing lists.
Comment linking /~jeff/quotes.txt
on “My Favourite Programming Quotes”Submitted Jeff Barr: Kidnapped By Hackers as a story · 10 points
HN discussionJeff Barr http://www.jeff-barr.com/
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on “New Amazon EC2 Instance Type - The Cluster Compute Instance”Submitted My First 12 Years at Amazon.com as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNope, It's Jeff Barr. http://www.jeff-barr.com/ [[edit]] that'll teach me not to refresh before commenting.
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on “Amazon S3 - Bigger and Busier Than Ever”Submitted My Personal Productivity Tips as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's Jeff Barr, Lead AWS Evangelist. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeffbarr (the OP). http://www.jeff-barr.com/?page_id=670 edit: Barr, not Bar :(
Comment linking /?page_id=670
on “Amazon S3 - Bigger and Busier Than Ever”Submitted Building Sage (Open Source Math) on Amazon EC2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vex-Based Webcam Platform as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Can't Google? Jeff Barr on Googles Recruitment as a story · 1 points
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