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Kasra Rahjerdi
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Kasra Rahjerdi's personal blog at kasrarahjerdi.com covers programming, culture and career. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Some Things That Make Me Scared”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on developer hiring, including what makes a job listing useful to candidates, and for a 2016 post advising against buying Google's Pixel phone because of weak repair support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal blog by Kasra Rahjerdi
Most-linked posts?
- Some Things That Make Me Scared2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-29
- On developer hiring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-30
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, it's pretty fantastic. I recently did a talk about how we handled our mobile release process, and getting feedback from our Meta site (and having the feedback be public rather than to just one person) was a god send. There's some extra details in the speaker notes (in the JS console) here: http://kasrarahjerdi.com/se-goes-mobile/#/7
Comment linking /se-goes-mobile/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?”Submitted Some Things That Make Me Scared as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJust FYI in case anyone is considering buying a Pixel: I strongly urge you not to. http://kasrarahjerdi.com/2016/11/dont-buy-anything-made-by-g... They have no Google provided support, if you drop the phone and break it your only option (if you didn't buy the third-party warranty upsell) is to take it to a repair shop. I called the ones near me, none had seen or touched the device before. Don't spend $800 on a phone…
Comment linking /2016/11/dont-buy-anything-made-by-google/
on “Pixel Security”Submitted Some Things That Make Me Scared as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote a post about this a while back: http://kasrarahjerdi.com/2016/08/on-developer-hiring/ Basically I like job listings that include _specific_ information about the role at the company. Maybe that means listing some of the hard challenges the other people on the team have worked on recently, maybe it just means listing the frameworks and libraries they're using, but anything to help me differentiate their Andro…
Comment linking /2016/08/on-developer-hiring/
on “Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen”Submitted On developer hiring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android Wear for Your NYC Commute as a story · 3 points
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