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Tech and Culture Musings

Personal blog · royrapoport.blogspot.comcareerculture

Tech and Culture Musings is a personal blog at royrapoport.blogspot.com about career and culture. Since 2014, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (2011)”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
12HN people?
2014–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this personal blog for posts on a coffee and Starbucks ordering system that became an internal bank, on Awk, and on one author's six years working at Netflix.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (2011)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-02-10
  2. The Three
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-25
  3. When You're Having Fun (6 Years at Netflix)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. stuuuuuuuuu · 2020-05-04
    This one? https://royrapoport.blogspot.com/2011/05/coffee-and-its-effe...

    Comment linking /2011/05/coffee-and-its-effects-on-feature-creep.html

    on “Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)”
  2. shadytrees · 2014-03-29

    Submitted Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (2011) as a story · 253 points

    HN discussion
  3. paulcole · 2018-04-25
    From the headline I thought this was going to be one of my favorite stories: "How I set out to simplify ordering Starbucks and created an internal banking system." http://royrapoport.blogspot.com/2011/05/coffee-and-its-effec...

    Comment linking /2011/05/coffee-and-its-effects-on-feature-creep.html

    on “How to become a bank (2016)”
  4. scott_s · 2014-02-10

    Submitted Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (2011) as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  5. CrankyFool · 2015-07-20
    I've been at Netflix for 2211 days (a little more than six years). Joined as an IT engineer, became an IT manager, became an engineer in the Product Engineering side, then became a manager in the Product Engineering side. At least two of the people who've already responded in this thread report to me. I wrote my impressions of six years at Netflix here: http://royrapoport.blogspot.com/2015/06/when-youre-having-fu...

    Comment linking /2015/06/when-youre-having-fun.html

    on “Ask HN: What is it like working at Netflix?”
  6. KB1JWQ · 2016-01-05

    Submitted Quantifying Shield Strength, or "How Happy Am I in My Job?" as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. EwanToo · 2017-02-27

    Submitted The Three as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. mooreds · 2017-02-25

    Submitted Three management lessons as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. dmit · 2017-02-24

    Submitted The Three Lessons as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. lionyo · 2016-06-03

    Submitted Coffee and Its Effects on Feature Creep as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. franze · 2016-06-01

    Submitted Coffee and Its Effects on Feature Creep as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. slowernet · 2015-06-30

    Submitted When You're Having Fun (6 Years at Netflix) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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