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PJ Hyett

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PJ Hyett's personal blog at pjhyett.com covers programming, career and culture. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2008–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link PJ Hyett's posts when discussing open source conduct, citing his 'how not to open source' post about the Capistrano episode, and his personal post about San Francisco.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. That's nice, but I don't think it makes up for how they attacked it. PJ Hyett (of GitHub fame) even commented on it at the time: http://www.pjhyett.com/posts/224-how-not-to-open-source

    Comment linking /posts/224-how-not-to-open-source

    on “Jamis Buck lets go of Capistrano”
  2. Submitted Drinking is a Public Relations Vehicle as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  3. According to this[0] page on his website, pjhyett grew up in the Midwest. As a fellow Midwesterner, I can tell you that you do not want to be outside all day, every day during the summer carrying golf bags, because it is burning hot. 0: http://pjhyett.com/2008/07/23/i-%3C3-san-francisco.html

    Comment linking /2008/07/23/i-%3C3-san-francisco.html

    on “Poll: how old were you at you first startup?”
  4. Submitted Founder-GitHUb: Why Liberal Arts Colleges are failing to teach anything useful as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Git Isn't Hard as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Drinking is a Public Relations Vehicle as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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