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Luke Francl
Personal blog · recursion.org · on HN as 100kprogrammingcareer
Luke Francl's personal blog at recursion.org covers programming and career. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Looking Backward (10 years of Rails)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Luke Francl's post on the 'interview anti-loop', cited to support the point that hiring outcomes involve a lot of luck. The comment does not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Looking Backward (10 years of Rails)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-25
What Hacker News says?
If you're interested in some of the milestones along the way and the context of web programming back in 2004 and 2005 when Rails came out, I made a timeline for my talk at RailsConf this year: http://www.recursion.org/looking-backward/ It was fun to research all this stuff. It's interesting to see how far back some of this stuff goes. For example, Rails gets much of its power from Ruby's flexibility. Ruby is heavily…
Comment linking /looking-backward/
on “Today Rails turns 10 years old”Submitted D3 for Mere Mortals (d3.js visualization tutorial) as a story · 84 points
HN discussionI agree with the sibling comment that this is an unfair summary of Rails' evolution and impact. I gave a talk about this when Rails turned 10: http://www.recursion.org/looking-backward/ It's hard to overstate how incredible Rails was compared to the what most people were writing in 2004. In both the frameworks that copied it, and those that reacted to it (like Sinatra) it has been widely influential. As to the parti…
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on “Sinatra 2.0 released”Submitted Swiftype (YC W12) API integration screencast as a story · 40 points
HN discussionAnd, of the ones who are good enough, some get unlucky and never overcome the "interview random number generator" and always get stuck in the "interview anti-loop." [0] You would think there would be less luck involved in a process that really wants to select the best available employees, but it is not so. --- [0]: http://recursion.org/2012/1/10/interviewing-anti-loop
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on “How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs”Submitted Support requests: How software gets better as a story · 26 points
HN discussionD3 is getting a lot of love lately! I like this tutorial as it nicely explains how to use events and animation. If you missed it, I wrote a D3 tutorial two weeks ago that shows how to do basic charting: http://www.recursion.org/d3-for-mere-mortals/
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on “Try D3 Now - D3 Visualization Tutorial”Submitted How's the Job Market? Measuring by Recruiting Inquiries as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGood luck! I wrote a post a while back about how I would like to be able to set up triggers to take action on deposits -- a sort of IFTTT for your bank. It sounds like Standard Treasury ultimately could make this possible, which would be awesome. http://www.recursion.org/2013/3/23/webhooks-for-paychecks
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on “Standard Treasury (YC S13) Aims To Make Software That Eats Commercial Banking”Submitted Looking Backward (10 years of Rails) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy recent trip to the Computer History Museum ( http://www.recursion.org/2014/10/16/a-night-with-the-ibm-140... ) had me thinking about this. I was struck by how _physical_ the exhibits are. For the most part, the exhibits are old hardware. In some cases, they have the hardware running software that you can use. Software from the PC era can be preserved with emulators (assuming its copy protection can be defeated),…
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on “Saving old software from extinction in the age of cloud computing”Submitted Charles Babbage, perfectionist engineer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI posted some numbers last week from the viewpoint of a passive candidate (my resume is on the internet and in innumerable recruiting company databases, but I do not have a Monster, Dice, etc profile): http://www.recursion.org/2011/5/21/recruiting-inquiries-per-... For me, I got more enquiries in 2010 than 2011 so far, but I didn't keep track of LinkedIn requests, which could skew the numbers. Most enquiries are ver…
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on “What It's Like to be Recruited”Submitted The story behind the YC photo used everywhere as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Hipmunk saved me from an agonizing day of travel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding a command to list recently changed Git branches (three ways) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Random weekend project: When's my next "fun" birthday? (date.js, CSS3) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The cynical reason startups should grant employees more equity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Insights from Coders at Work as a story · 1 points
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