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Matt Youell
Personal blog · youell.com/matt/writing · on HN as softbuilderprogrammingcareer
Matt Youell's personal blog at youell.com covers programming and career. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “A Tale of Two Interviews, Part 1”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Matt Youell's personal writing site. HN readers link it for a two-part series, 'A Tale of Two Interviews', and an older 2009 post, 'My Kung Fu Is the Best'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Tale of Two Interviews, Part 13 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-31
What Hacker News says?
I did a similar post ages ago[1], although less ambitious at only 7 books. I've since read the Turing Omnibus and The Little Schemer and I was glad to see them on the list. I wish I'd had them when I was much younger. In addition to Programming Pearls I would also add "Software Tools" by Kernighan and Plauger. I never read The Elements of Programming Style but very early in my career I chanced into the single-page e…
Comment linking /matt/writing/?p=4
on “My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part One”Submitted How To Hire Me (or any other programmer) as a story · 346 points
HN discussionMake sure you read Part 2: http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=801
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on “A Tale of Two Interviews, Part 1”Submitted A Tale of Two Interviews, Part 1 as a story · 133 points
HN discussionI recently wrote about my similar experiences (minus the nice analogies). Be warned, it's a long, long post (2 parts, actually) but details the experience first hand. http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=785
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on “"Can you solve this problem for me on the whiteboard?"”Submitted Where the fuck is my Ari Gold? as a story · 109 points
HN discussionYears ago I made a similar rant [1]. Last year it made the rounds on HN and because of that I heard from one company [2] that seems to be trying a different approach. (I have no affiliation with them). I don't know if that model is working for them or not. I haven't stayed in touch and I haven't seen anyone else trying it. [1] http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=8 [2] http://www.10xmanagement.com/
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on “Form letter response for engineering recruiting emails”Submitted My Not-So-Hyper Loop as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThe original site is still alive: http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166
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on “My Kung Fu Is the Best (2009)”Submitted A Tale of Two Interviews, PArt 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe other consideration aside from cost is that seismic activity, even minor, can skew a tunnel. (Edit: for deep tunnels, that is. I have no idea about tunnels right below the surface.) That's bad news at high speed. I've given the tunnel approach some thought.[1] And I keep hearing people trying to apply Hyperloop to coast-to-coast travel, but I don't recall Elon every saying anything about that long of a distance.…
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on “Hyperloop speculation – launch assist for electric aircraft ”Submitted My Not-So-Hyper Loop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI politely asked them to charge me $5 a month back in 2008. http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=61 Never heard back. :)
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on “Free vs. paid: Would Twitter be better if you paid for it?”