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Jeremy D. Zawodny
Personal blog · jeremy.zawodny.com/blogprogrammingproductivitycareer
Jeremy D. Zawodny writes Jeremy Zawodny's blog, a personal blog at jeremy.zawodny.com about programming, productivity and career. Since 2007, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “The Perl UTF-8 and utf8 Encoding Mess”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeremy Zawodny's blog posts on a daily weight-tracking spreadsheet, on PageRank and Google's search ranking, and on MySQL tools such as mytop.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- One commenter says his diet spreadsheet really helped keep their eating in check; another says his blog is one that rewards careful reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/archives/006851.html2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-02
- The Perl UTF-8 and utf8 Encoding Mess2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-09-02
- How Richard Stallman is Getting Things Done2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-09
What Hacker News says?
> I very much doubt that many of the people (broadly) deciding which products to support and which to drop were hired via a new-grad-like interview process. I'm confused as to why you doubt that. Google's been around for almost 20 years. Their interviewing process has been around since at least 2003.[1] It's 100% possible that somebody was hired, ended up in higher management, and graduated to making driving decisio…
Comment linking /blog/archives/000616.html
on “Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters”Submitted Don't Bet on Moore Saving Your Ass as a story · 82 points
HN discussionThe moment when Google turned to the dark side was in 2005-2006, when they stopped sponsoring the "Web Spam Squashing Summit" and started sponsoring SEO conventions. "There's going to be a Web Spam Squashing Summit next week: Thursday, Feb 24th. (2005). Technorati is organizing the event (thanks guys!) and we're hosting it on-site at Yahoo in Sunnyvale. The main goal to get the tool makers in a room together to talk…
Comment linking /blog/archives/004256.html
on “How SEO Ruined the Internet”Submitted I'm Joining Craigslist in July (by Jeremy Zawodny) as a story · 50 points
HN discussionHi Colin, I referred to tarsnap and said it had a "good pedigree" on JWZ's blog. Yes, I was referring to your background and domain knowledge as FreeBSD Secuirity Officer. http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html#comment-...
Comment linking /blog/archives/007641.html
on “Startups in 13 Sentences”Submitted Yahoo loses key mysql developer as a story · 50 points
HN discussionRichard Stallman's way is a close 2nd: For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time. http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/009889.html
Comment linking /blog/archives/009889.html
on “Show HN: Smozzy (for Android/T-Mobile) - browse the web without a data plan”Submitted Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS) as a story · 31 points
HN discussionHah. Back in 2003 I wrote: "PageRank stopped working really well when people began to understand how PageRank worked. The act of Google trying to "understand" the web caused the web itself to change." http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000751.html It's amazing that it took this long.
Comment linking /blog/archives/000751.html
on “RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web”Submitted The New MySQL Landscape (by Jeremy Zawodny) as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI've seen this "limitation" mentioned in various online forums, such as the following. "Mac OS X interface and ergonomy is (as said by apple) not 'compatible' with the focus-follow mouse mode. Why ? Because a single application interface is split into lots of different elements. For exemple, you use an application like photoshop or word, you'll have different panels floating around the main window. With sloppy focus…
Comment linking /blog/archives/000149.html
on “Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X”Submitted Sphinx Search at Craigslist as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSeeing as this phenomenon -- even to the point of people literally typing URLs into Google and then clicking the first result -- is old, well-known and well-documented, I'm gonna guess you need to broaden your usability reading. Here, for example, is an article from 2007 pointing out that the top search term on Google was... "Yahoo": http://www.dailydomainer.com/200742-yahoo-top-search-term-on... Here's Jeremy Zawod…
Comment linking /blog/archives/010453.html
on “Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"”Submitted Zawodny: Database Abstraction Layers Must Die (at least for PHP) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionhttp://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006784.html Here's a video of iced tea in a barrel roll.
Comment linking /blog/archives/006784.html
on “The Turn (1993)”Submitted Spock sign-up flow demonstrates how to scare users away... (by Jeremy Zawodny) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionFor the life of me, I can't understand why craigslist has had this mentality. I basically have to chalk it up to Craig being stubborn. He was burned by ebay grabbing 20%, he hasn't changed the design ever, and may constantly live in fear of being co-opted by the man. But like it or not, Craigslist is the man. And when your users go out of their way to create pieces of software that actually improve the experience fo…
Comment linking /blog/archives/008513.html
on “Craigslist blocks Yahoo Pipes”Submitted Relative Efficency of Programming Languages vs. Legal Language (by Jeremy Zawodny) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionsee also: "The Diet Spreadsheet" by Jeremy Zawodny http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006851.html http://www.myweightracker.com/about
Comment linking /blog/archives/006851.html
on “How to lose weight: What worked for me, with graphs”Submitted The "No Laptop" Meeting Rule as a story · 8 points
HN discussionCouldn't agree more. I tried losing weight without keeping track of my daily weight, and got nowhere. Then I happened upon Jeremy Zawodny's spreadsheet ( http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006851.html ). Maintaining a daily record of my calorie intake as well as my weight has really helped me keep my eating in check. It has also helped me get motivated to keep going to the gym - everytime I see that graph flat…
Comment linking /blog/archives/006851.html
on “How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data is King)”Submitted Don't Fuck With Simple (by Jeremy Zawodny) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionOh, and according to a guy at Yahoo: "Consuming OpenID is a different beast that can't happen overnight. Give it some time. I'm optimistic that we'll get there." http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/009856.html
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on “Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project”Submitted Hulu Desktop vs. Hulu in Browser vs. Nexflix (Flash vs. Silverlight?) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI found it here: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/linkblog/
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on “Create a perfect sketch of your car accident”Submitted Tom Coates Future of Web Apps, Translated for Product Managers - 06 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionblogs that focus on mySQL tuning, database design, and linux-tuning aspects, and reward careful reading http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/ http://dammit.lt/stream/mysql/ http://ebergen.net/wordpress/ http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/
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on “10 MySQL variables that you should monitor”Submitted Watching Yahoo's Transformation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have three words for you, my friend: "electric space heaters". :) I won't dwell on the fact that laptops are ergonomically evil and will eventually send you to the doctor with one form of RSI or another. If you don't already understand this, it will be very hard to convince you. Instead I'll point out that your productivity is proportional to how much monitor you've got. Researchers have measured this [1][2], hack…
Comment linking /blog/archives/005541.html
on “Minimum Startup Overhead: Coffee Shop Programmer”Submitted Our CEO Tells It Like It Is as a story · 3 points
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