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techblog.livingsocial.com is the company blog at techblog.livingsocial.com, writing about programming, systems and culture. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Building an Open, Drop-in Replacement for UITableView”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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35mentions?
7HN people?
2013–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this LivingSocial engineering blog for an academic breakdown of UITableView and a post on working remotely. Comments cite these posts without judging them.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building an Open, Drop-in Replacement for UITableView
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-12-02
  2. Open-Sourcing Rearview: Real-Time Monitoring With Graphite
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-30
  3. Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. SEEKING WORK (iOS) - Remote - Pacific Standard Time - US Citizen I'm a 3-year iOS developer, who remembers developing for early iOS 4.x builds + iPhone 3 (without camera!). I have resume experience for lead roles, remote teams, an acquired startup, as well as at Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Recently, I published an academic breakdown of UITableView - a popular iOS control - on my employer's tech blog + open-sourced…

    Comment linking /blog/2013/12/02/lsctableview-building-an-open/

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2014)”
  2. Submitted Responsive Tables in Pure CSS as a story · 307 points

    HN discussion
  3. SEEKING WORK (iOS) - Remote - Pacific Standard Time - US Citizen I'm a 3-year iOS developer, who remembers developing for early iOS 4.x builds + iPhone 3. Currently, I'm seeking remote work on Pacific Standard Time, and I'm a US Citizen. I have resume experience from lead roles, remote teams, an acquired startup, and at Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Not very long ago, I published an academic breakdown of UITableView…

    Comment linking /blog/2013/12/02/lsctableview-building-an-open/

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2014)”
  4. Submitted Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus as a story · 133 points

    HN discussion
  5. SEEKING WORK - Remote - Pacific Standard Time I'm a 3-year iOS developer, who remembers developing for early iOS 4.x builds + iPhone 3. Currently, I'm working remotely on Pacific Standard Time. I have resume experience from in lead roles, LivingSocial, an acquired startup, Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Not very long ago, I published an academic breakdown of UITableView - a popular iOS control - on my employer's tech…

    Comment linking /blog/2013/12/02/lsctableview-building-an-open/

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2014)”
  6. Submitted Open-Sourcing Rearview: Real-Time Monitoring With Graphite as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  7. SEEKING WORK (iOS) - Remote - Pacific Standard Time - US Citizen I'm a 3.5+ year iOS developer, who remembers developing for early iOS 4.x builds + iPhone 3 (without camera!). I have resume experience in lead roles, remote teams, an acquired startup, as well as at Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Recently, I published an academic breakdown of UITableView - a popular iOS control - on my employer's tech blog + open-sourc…

    Comment linking /blog/2013/12/02/lsctablevi..

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2014)”
  8. Submitted Building an Open, Drop-in Replacement for UITableView as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  9. 1) Say no to multitasking 2) Morning ritual 3) Don’t work all the time 4) Eliminate distractions Key points taken from https://techblog.livingsocial.com/blog/2014/04/02/working-fr...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/04/02/working-from-home-heres-an-extra-shot-of-focus/

    on “Ask HN: First time working remote, what do I need to know?”
  10. Submitted SOA Series Part 3: Documenting and Generating Your APIs as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted SOA Series Part 1: The What, the Why, and the Rules of Engagement as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Coverband: Production Ruby Code Coverage as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted SOA: Sample Apps and Their Development and Deployment Flow as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Show HN: Decruft your Rails filters with FilterDecrufter as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Preserving Technical Knowledge as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted After the Hero Comes as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted A developer's work is never done as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Women Who Code Panel: From Hello World to Hello Job as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Technical Intimidation as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Rebuilding the LivingSocial Android App as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted StrongLikeBull – A Lesson in Recursion as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Please Don't Google That for Me as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Revisiting rails:update as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Improving Your Code with Android Support Annotations as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Here are the nontechnical things code school taught me as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Camaraderie vs. Morale as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted With or Without You as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Caching Service Responses Client-Side as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Hive UDFs in Ruby as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Open-Sourcing Rearview: Real-Time Monitoring with Graphite as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

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