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Wendy Liu
Personal blog · dellsystem.me/postswritingculturecareer
Wendy Liu's personal blog at dellsystem.me covers writing, culture and career. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Gatekeeping in the Tech Industry [2019]”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one comment does not mention this blog or its writing. It argues that people can be productive before they are fully educated, in a thread about a startup that pays people to learn to code.
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.
Wendy is a writer living in San Francisco. She writes about tech billboards for Bay Area Current.
Most-linked posts?
- Gatekeeping in the Tech Industry [2019]2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-02-22
- Time-slicing photos with Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-15
What Hacker News says?
> How can we reverse the trend that a wonderful piece of tech such as RSS is obliterated without any regard to implications? RSS being killed is a part of the commodification/privatization of knowledge. RSS simply gives users too much freedom. "What if we thought of some of the most lucrative tech companies as essentially tax collectors, but privately-run (and thus not democratically accountable)? Economists call th…
Comment linking /posts/fragments-86
on “RSS is wonderful”Submitted How not to check the validity of an email address as a story · 437 points
HN discussion> "Intellectual Property" isn't preventing you from learning programming and earning 6 figures. I honestly believe you might be missing the bigger picture here. "Whereas we were once led to believe that the network society would produce an egalitarian world, we increasingly see tech as a machine for the commodification of information itself. Something that has the potential to be abundant is made artificially scarce…
Comment linking /posts/fragments-50
on “Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States”Submitted Software engineer position at Serf.com (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhy not? I bet all of the people reading this wrote programs at 5 months into their careers that did something useful, most probably earlier than that! I imagine that most of us readers now have more than 5 months experience under our belts and have since grown, so we can write that program faster or to do more or what have you. None the less, we and these potential students can be productive before being fully educ…
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on “Launch HN: Modern Labor (YC W19) – Paying People to Learn to Code”Submitted Time-slicing photos with Python and ImageMagick as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Stripe Inc. is signing up to pay for carbon-removal technologies that haven’t been invented yet. > The payments company has formed a partnership with Deep Science Ventures, a London investment firm that specializes in building technology companies from the ground up. DSV will recruit scientists to develop ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If they come up with viable concepts, Stripe will be their…
Comment linking /posts/fragments-86
on “Stripe is kick-starting market for carbon removal”Submitted Time-slicing photos with Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's great to see a lot of comments with an awareness that many in today's society aren't verifying (or able to verify?) the science they come across. Yet I'm not seeing much talk yet of theories and frameworks that take this reality as a starting point. That takes this widespread scientific non-competence as a starting point to then chart a path forward to a competent society. In other words, what are some strategi…
Comment linking /posts/fragments-50
on “Trusting science leaves people vulnerable to believing pseudoscience”Submitted Gatekeeping in the Tech Industry [2019] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionour digital lives are now lived within black box straight-jacketing walled gardens, mediated by undemocratically wielded algorithms and protocols. there is no hardware interoperability, modularity and repairability. it's just obfuscated single-use hardware with parasitic economic rents through and through. "What if we thought of some of the most lucrative tech companies as essentially tax collectors, but privately-r…
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on “Sequoia Productive Capital”Submitted How I managed to read ~200 books last year as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> the world economy is changing faster than people can be educated how can people learn if large parts of humanity's scientific and technological feedback/learning loops are commoditized and made artificially scarce by our economic system? especially now that we have digital technology available that could make the storing and transmitting of informational artifacts super cheap. so i think neither of the two reasons…
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on “Socialist Cyborgs”