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Rachel by the Bay

rachelbythebay.com

Popular posts: 128
Total points: 36,485
HN comments: 20,042
Rank: #11 personal

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A nice story about Unix processes “infecting” each other

2022164 points42 comments Systems & Performance details

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"Put down the crack pipes" doesn't go so well

2013160 points160 comments Career & Management details

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Hitting every branch on the way down

2024160 points140 comments Systems & Performance details

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Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM

2013159 points45 comments Security & Privacy details

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We are a spectrum of jobs, not just one

2020158 points113 comments Career & Management details

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That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing

2026157 points171 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

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Where I started might not be useful to you

2018152 points100 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

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The "well-calibrated interviewer" curse

2013151 points111 comments Career & Management details

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Don't setenv in multi-threaded code on glibc

2017150 points104 comments Software Engineering details

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It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF]

2015150 points50 comments Systems & Performance details

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Just start writing and the rest will follow

2018147 points31 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

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Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it

2020146 points145 comments Systems & Performance details

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Potholes to avoid when migrating to IPv6

2018146 points102 comments Networking & Internet details

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Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook

2020145 points46 comments Hardware & Electronics details

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Taking too much slack out of the rubber band

2019143 points42 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

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What is the unique value proposition of selling honey?

2020141 points135 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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Boiling the machines when they needed to just chill

2020140 points45 comments Systems & Performance details

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Anti-pattern theater: how to get women to quit

2011138 points176 comments Career & Management details

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The dangers of resetting everything at once

2015137 points46 comments Systems & Performance details

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File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness

2020134 points72 comments Software Engineering details

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So many feed readers, so many behaviors

2024130 points98 commentscited by 6Web & Frontend details

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VMWare Fusion IPv6 NAT Black Holes

2016130 points48 comments Networking & Internet details

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Spammy syscalls in strace dumps

2023129 points47 comments Systems & Performance details

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Recreating the US/* time zone situation

2025127 points111 comments Databases & Data details

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Giving away the company's secret sauce

2018125 points55 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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A Reader Asks How to Avoid Working for Evil

2022124 points147 comments Career & Management details

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Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs

2019120 points30 comments Networking & Internet details

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If you're hiring, be forthcoming about the dev experience

2020119 points125 comments Career & Management details

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A push gone wrong in the name of what, exactly?

2019119 points89 comments Career & Management details

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Web programs written in C++ are no big deal

2012118 points126 comments Software Engineering details