Best of 2012

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2012. 294 posts.

Career & Management
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One hiring filter that works

In a fairly popular blog post, Raganwald advocates against using various heuristics while filtering out resumes. For the most part, I agree with him. Since it's hard to find good programmers, false negatives are very costly compared to the cost of a false positive (a wasted interview). But I have …