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Shalin Shekhar Mangar

Personal blog · shal.in · on HN as shalinmangarprogrammingdata

Shalin Shekhar Mangar writes Tumblr, a personal blog at shal.in about programming and data. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why you should contribute to Open Source?”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2010–2010first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in an HN thread on finding programming jobs in India. The only comment is career advice that points to job sites and a post on contributing to open source, and says nothing about this blog's writing.

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.

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The author on HN?

shalinmangar · 186 karma · member since 2008

Engineer at Lucidworks. Committer on Apache Lucene and Apache Solr. Former AOLer. Blog: http://shal.in

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why you should contribute to Open Source?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. 1 year? Try to nail it in 2 months. Try to learn JSP/Servlets, Spring, Hibernate or Play! framework. Showcase something on GAE. Usually money chases talent, so give ur best at building skills. Subscribe to: Punetech.com, pluggd.in, hackerstreet.in and look for jobs on http://sutrajobs.com and http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/venturejobs/ This guy has given an excellent post on contributing to open source: http:…

    Comment linking /post/285909694/why-you-should-contribute-to-open-source

    on “Ask HN: Programming jobs in India?”
  2. Submitted Why you should contribute to Open Source? as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Merging Lucene and Solr as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion

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