Hacker News
- Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2021/03/22/why-arent-motherboards-mostly-usb-c-by-now/ 496 comments
- 10th Rule of Programming (2003) https://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000tgU 22 comments
- Money, money, money (and investing) (2015) https://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/money 162 comments
- Face mask mandates in schools do not lead to lower Covid transmission https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/03/10/face-mask-mandates-in-schools-were-not-associated-with-lower-sars-cov-2-incidence-or-transmission/ 4 comments
- Teaching Information Security https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2021/12/27/teaching-information-security/ 12 comments
- LiveWire Review (1998) https://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/livewire.html 4 comments
- Bay Area sentiments https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/02/06/bay-area-sentiments/ 14 comments
- Tcl for Web Nerds http://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/ 5 comments
- Women in Science http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science 35 comments
- Unions and Airlines (2010) http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines.html 72 comments
- Internet Software Patents http://philip.greenspun.com/business/internet-software-patents 2 comments
- SQL for Web Nerds http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/ 14 comments
- Video Editing Tablet http://philip.greenspun.com/business/video-editing-tablet 2 comments
- Why airlines tend to be unionized http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines 64 comments
- Managing Software Engineers http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-software-engineers 21 comments
- Why I'm Not a Writer (1996) http://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/FAQ/wilcox.html 20 comments
- Internet Software Patents http://philip.greenspun.com/business/internet-software-patents 7 comments
- Redefining Professionalism for Software Engineers http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/professionalism-for-software-engineers 11 comments
Lobsters
- Managing Software Engineers [2002] http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-software-engineers 6 comments practices
- Women in Science: different goals among men/women http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science 31 comments math
- Without a good speech-to-text front-end, it is hard to see how Watson is going to be hugely more useful than Google. And achieving speech-to-text may yet prove to be just as hard as all of A.I. (if you don't believe it, try applying your human intelligence to transcribing a foreign language). http://philip.greenspun.com/software/watson 8 comments technology
- Beyond the RDBMS: the Brave New (Old) World of NoSQL http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/three-day-rdbms/beyond-the-rdbms 21 comments programming
- If left to their own devices, [programmers] will skimp on anything that is necessary but not fun. This includes planning, documentation, and testing. http://philip.greenspun.com/software/design-review 174 comments programming
- Why I'm not a Writer http://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/FAQ/wilcox.html 5 comments books
- EE vs CS http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/eecs-difference-explained 162 comments programming
- Greenspun: Managing Software Engineers http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-software-engineers 16 comments programming
- Dave Barry on choosing a college major http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/choosing-a-major.text 82 comments reddit.com
- Re-evaluate your bias: Is a job in science a good job? http://philip.greenspun.com/careers//women-in-science 7 comments reddit.com
- "We Have Chosen Shame and Will Get War." Philip Greenspun on HTML. http://philip.greenspun.com/research/internet-haters 61 comments programming
- Early retirement: where to live? http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/where-to-live 12 comments reddit.com
- Philip Greenspun on aviation safety: why a beginner pilot can be safer than a retired Air Force colonel and why the most dangerous thing a pilot can say is "I will be there on June 5 at 6:00 pm." http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety 2 comments reddit.com
- Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/eecs-difference-explained 32 comments reddit.com
- Philip Greenspun on why ACID transactions matter in a relational database http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/databases-choosing 11 comments programming
- SQL for Web Nerds http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/index.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Tips for Startup Companies http://philip.greenspun.com/business/startup-tips/ 17 comments reddit.com
- Women in Science (Adjusted for IQ and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States) http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science 45 comments reddit.com
- Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing: a guide from the 90's that has aged surprisingly well http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ 2 comments reddit.com
- Tuition-free MIT: Phil Greenspun on why MIT should stop charging tuition http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit 15 comments reddit.com
- Envisioning a Site That Won't Be Featured In suck.com http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/suck 3 comments reddit.com
- How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/ 4 comments reddit.com