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Softwire

Company blog · softwire.com/blogprogrammingwebsecurity

Softwire is the company blog at softwire.com, writing about programming, web and security. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters, including one who works there, link Softwire's site for its paid London internship program and its software consultancy work building varied products for other companies. The comments promote the company, not the writing.

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.

We are an independent technology consultancy, delivering impact beyond the bottom line.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I work at Softwire – we have a paid internship program in London. Details are here: http://softwire.com/recruitment.htm It's a friendly and relaxed small company. We do software development and consultancy for other companies, so it's not a "startup" in the HN sense, but instead we get to write new software in a variety of languages and platforms for a different product every 3-6 months. You can apply on our website…

    Comment linking /recruitment.htm

    on “Ask HN: I got screwed and now im looking for a place to do my internship in.”
  2. Submitted Adding types to Lodash, with TypeScript's generic union types as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. How about Softwire? http://www.softwire.com We tick all your boxes. Tech: We use interesting state-of-the-art and varied technology (I just finished a Rails project; I've done plenty of Java work at Softwire). Career: We are a small(ish) company growing fast so there is opportunity to define new roles and help us manage the transition into a larger company. Work/life: We don't work long hours; generally 38-40h/week.…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What to do next in my career?”
  4. Submitted Introduction to TypeScript: More Than Just Types as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Introduction to TypeScript: Type Inference in Practice as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Explaining the IIS Range Header Attack (CVE-2015-1635) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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