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Rex Riepe
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Rex Riepe's personal blog at rexriepe.com covers writing, culture and design. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Clever PR: Facebook bends a non-story to their favor”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link a 2012 post arguing that Facebook's privacy move was a non-issue turned into PR. The post is cited as support for the view that the change mainly served Facebook.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rex Riepe is a speaker, writer, and game designer exploring human behavior, emotion, technology, and systems.
Most-linked posts?
- Clever PR: Facebook bends a non-story to their favor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-23
What Hacker News says?
Location: San Francisco Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Django, Less, Angular, React, Cavepaint, jQuery (It's coming back!) Résumé/CV: http://rexriepe.com/resume Email: rexriepe -at- gmail Had a health crisis and burned out of the industry while contracting at Google. Diagnosed, treated and ready to get back to a Django team (or any other tech stack that strikes a good balance between perfectionis…
Comment linking /resume
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)”Submitted Clever PR: Facebook bends a non-story to their favor as a story · 72 points
HN discussionThey're only doing the right thing for them, this move seems to incidentally benefits users too but not really. it prevent outcomes such as users 1) closing their account / switching to another website 2) creating an additional fake profile only for work. This article [1] is imho quite right, this is mostly a non-issue turned into PR. 1: http://rexriepe.com/2012/clever-pr-facebook-bends-a-non-stor...
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on “Facebook will take action to protect the privacy and security of their users”Submitted You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022) as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | San Francisco | REMOTE OK I help startups and tech companies with team and technical success. I'm good at fixing split teams, broken processes and getting stubborn developers on board with new ideas or projects (After all, I have plenty of experience as one). * Any stack * I'm best at helping teams with frontends that have a lot of moving parts * I not only propose and implement design/performance sta…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021)”Submitted Frontpage re-imagining: Ridejoy as a story · 3 points
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