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Ryan Seys

Personal blog · ryanseys.com/blog · on HN as ryanseysprogrammingcareer

Ryan Seys's personal blog at ryanseys.com covers programming and career. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “My Summer at Mozilla”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ryan Seys's post about his Mozilla internship, which describes the perks interns get. Commenters cite it when discussing Mozilla's spending and open-source funding.

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.

Human being, software engineer.

The author on HN?

ryanseys · 1,006 karma · member since 2013

https://ryanseys.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. My Summer at Mozilla
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-09-02
  2. 177 Days of GitHub
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. Mozilla with it's hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue comes to mind as a steward of such a initiative. But they seem to have been spending the money in pursuing project without a chance to succeed like FirefoxOS and expensive office and perks. E.g. https://ryanseys.com/blog/summer-at-mozilla/ >Interns at Mozilla, myself included, are truly spoiled rotten. Competitive pay, free travel/housing, free snac…

    Comment linking /blog/summer-at-mozilla/

    on “Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable”
  2. Submitted My Summer at Mozilla as a story · 152 points

    HN discussion
  3. >One has the passion and enthusiasm of well respected open source volunteers behind it, and the other has a sleek high quality shine only our dear corporate overlords could deliver. This is minor, but it sets the mood the for the whole experience of add ons. Doesn't Mozilla spend a lot on Firefox development? Like in the hundreds or tens of millions of dollars range? They have very nice and grand offices, lavish eve…

    Comment linking /blog/summer-at-mozilla/

    on “Apple Safari users suffer crashes”
  4. Submitted 177 Days of GitHub as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted 177 Days of GitHub as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Contribute to READMEs as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Show People as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Show HN: PhotoGPS - Instantly plot photos on Google Maps using GPS Exif data as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted I made a thing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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