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Neil Bowers
Personal blog · neilbowers.wordpress.comprogrammingwritingculture
Neil Bowers writes neilb, a personal blog at neilbowers.wordpress.com about programming, writing and culture. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Are you capable of pink box testing?”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Neil Bowers' 2008 post on "pink box testing", a method for checking candidates' claimed skills. One commenter calls the technique a favourite, and others cite the post as a reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Random burblings
Most-linked posts?
- Are you capable of pink box testing?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-08-13
What Hacker News says?
"Pink box testing"[1] is my favourite variant of this. [1] https://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/pink-box-testing...
Comment linking /2008/08/11/pink-box-testing/
on “We created a fake language to root out resume liars”Submitted Are you capable of pink box testing? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionWait, you never heard of THP?! It's virtually mandatory for pink box testing: http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/pink-box-testing/
Comment linking /2008/08/11/pink-box-testing/
on “The Programmer's Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent”Then there's the recruiter-checking equivalent of "pink box testing": http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/pink-box-testing/
Comment linking /2008/08/11/pink-box-testing/
on “Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms”One of the few titles on my list of books that I tell people not to read ( http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/book-review-atlas... )
Comment linking /2012/06/23/book-review-atlas-shrugged-by-ayn-rand/
on “Ask HN: What literature do you read?”
