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Tess Rinearson

Personal blog · tessrinearson.com/blogcareerprogrammingculture

Tess Rinearson's personal blog at tessrinearson.com covers career, programming and culture. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “On Technical Entitlement”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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14mentions?
8HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Linked on HN in the thread 'IRC as a Hiring Filter'. The only comment argues against using IRC habits to screen candidates, which it says picks only the 'technically entitled'. No comment praises the 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. On Technical Entitlement
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Gracana · 2015-02-13
    Yeah, this definitely seems like a bad idea. Behavior on irc might be worth noting, but irc usage itself or client preference seems like the perfect way to hire only the "technically entitled."[1] I don't see any reason to limit myself to only hiring people who grew up in the same culture I did... there are plenty of paths to technical savvy, and "chats with people on irc" isn't even necessarily one of them. 1. http…

    Comment linking /blog/?p=400

    on “IRC as a Hiring Filter”
  2. tessr · 2012-03-23

    Submitted Notes from UPenn's Forum on Brogramming and Sexism in Computer Science as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  3. tessr · 2012-06-29

    Submitted On Technical Entitlement as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  4. liberatus · 2012-09-27

    Submitted How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  5. launchsack · 2012-12-11

    Submitted Homegrown Computer Science for Middle Schoolers as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  6. tessr · 2012-08-15

    Submitted App.net: The Country Club of the Internet? as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  7. tessr · 2012-08-01

    Submitted How to Get a Kickass Internship as a High School Student as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  8. Terpaholic · 2013-04-30

    Submitted The Most Important Part of Your Hackathon? Your Sponsors. as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  9. tessr · 2012-04-17

    Submitted Hey HN: Blogs are projects, too as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  10. aaronjg · 2012-09-06

    Submitted PennApps 2012 Hackathon Sells Out Faster Than Bieber’s North American Tour as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  11. tessr · 2012-06-15

    Submitted Why, despite "mustiness and bureaucracy," Microsoft is attracting interns as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  12. missechokit · 2012-10-25

    Submitted How Marines Are Like Computer Scientists: The Problem with Underrepresentation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. sunils34 · 2012-10-24

    Submitted How Marines Are Like Computer Scientists: The Problem with Underrepresentation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. tessr · 2012-07-23

    Submitted The 8 Kinds of Projects You Meet at a Hackathon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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