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Minnen Ratta
Personal blog · minnenratta.wordpress.comcareerprogramming
Minnen Ratta is a personal blog at minnenratta.wordpress.com about career and programming. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts on software engineering leadership at a multinational and on why development teams miss delivery dates. They quote or cite the posts without judging them.
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.
Saving the world, one lame suggestion at a time
Most-linked posts?
- Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-29
What Hacker News says?
OT, but: funny, I felt the name was familiar, and turns out I commented on a post on this blog 12 years ago[0]. A reading lost due to the death of google reader, I presume. [0] How time flies! https://minnenratta.wordpress.com/2005/12/23/le-proporzioni-...
Comment linking /2005/12/23/le-proporzioni-del-mondo/
on “Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational”Submitted Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational as a story · 442 points
HN discussion"Delivery dates have often irrelevant but very simple to understand impacts. Good and bad solutions have dramatic but very difficult to understand impacts." https://minnenratta.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/things-i-have-l...
Comment linking /2017/01/25/things-i-have-learnt-as-the-software-engineering-lead-of-a-multinational/
on “Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Budget, or at All”Submitted Hiring, firing and more as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Attraction of Complexity as a story · 43 points
HN discussion