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M. E. Driscoll

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M. E. Driscoll writes m. e. driscoll, a personal blog at medriscoll.com about data and startups. Since 2011, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The secret guild of Silicon Valley”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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19HN people?
2011–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link M. E. Driscoll's 2012 post on the 'secret guild of Silicon Valley' as a reference for insider networking and age-related hiring, citing it in threads on age diversity and Twitter staffing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The secret guild of Silicon Valley
    8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2011-08-19
  2. Let Us Now Praise Data Engineers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. eloy · 2015-10-19
    Relevant article from a few years ago: http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-v... That blog was also the reason that someone started this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/neckbeardhacker

    Comment linking /post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-valley

    on “How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?”
  2. Luyt · 2012-05-03

    Submitted The secret guild of Silicon Valley as a story · 177 points

    HN discussion
  3. void_star · 2014-10-20
    I'm reminded of a blogpost from 2012: http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-v...

    Comment linking /post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-valley

    on “Career planning: Where do old devs go to?”
  4. nate_martin · 2014-06-23

    Submitted The Secret Guild of Silicon Valley (2012) as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  5. SkyMarshal · 2022-11-18
    If George Hotz joins Twitter, as he recently offered [1], you may be right. I think people may be underestimating Elon's ability to bring in folks from the "secret guild of silicon valley" [2] to help him in this task. Of course, some of the Twitter employees who left are probably already part of it, but George coming on, even temporarily, might help bring in replacements. [1]: https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/sta…

    Comment linking /2011/08/19/the-guild-of-silicon-valley/

    on “Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs”
  6. frederickcook · 2011-08-19

    Submitted The Guild of Silicon Valley as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  7. kragen · 2012-04-28
    Huh, your comment makes me wonder if I should look for contract work doing C++ development. I haven't done it seriously since the last millennium, and basically I've learned to program since then [0], but I know all the stuff you're talking about cold. (Except mutable , which took me a few seconds to remember, and then I looked it up to be sure.) It's just that I feel like higher-level languages like Ruby, Python, o…

    Comment linking /post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-valley

    on “Cargo Cults and Interview Questions”
  8. todsacerdoti · 2021-05-03

    Submitted Apache Druid Turns 10: The Untold Origin Story as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  9. angersock · 2014-08-11
    Fair point, but given the trope I'm looking to invoke ( http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-v... ), I'm okay with the baggage. Is there a female version of neckbeard? Or a gender-neutral word with the same connotations? I fear the obvious wordplay is offensive for the wrong reasons: neckbroad?

    Comment linking /post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-valley

    on “47% of applications for our Hacker Retreat were women. Here is how we did it”
  10. anthonyb · 2012-04-17

    Submitted The secret guild of Silicon Valley as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. bravura · 2012-03-05

    Submitted The data science debate: domain expertise or machine learning? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  12. shawndumas · 2013-11-26

    Submitted The secret guild of silicon valley as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. tmfi · 2021-06-01

    Submitted Operational intelligence and the new frontier of data as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. siddg · 2015-07-09

    Submitted The seven secrets of successful data scientists as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. bsg75 · 2014-03-01

    Submitted Five secrets for keeping cool in ETL hell as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. angersock · 2013-12-16

    Submitted The secret guild of silicon valley as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. aba_sababa · 2013-05-06

    Submitted Let Us Now Praise Data Engineers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. wslh · 2012-05-10

    Submitted The rise of the technical VC as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. articsputnik · 2024-10-02

    Submitted Let us now praise data engineers, 2013 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. sonabinu · 2015-12-21

    Submitted Lets Now Praise the Data Engineers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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