1
Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run.
Matt Rickard
About Matt Rickard.
- Popular posts
- 19
- Total points
- 3,783
- HN comments
- 3,872
- Rank
- #345 personal
Visit matt-rickard.com → On Hacker News Aug 2021 – Aug 2023
Software Engineering 8Infrastructure & DevOps 8Tech Industry & Business 6Tools & Productivity 5Web & Frontend 3Career & Management 3
2
The Lost Art of System Administration
I spent a good chunk of my adolescence learning Linux systems administration. I attribute some of my success as a software engineer to the scripting and systems knowledge I picked up while installing, maintaining, and...
3
Against Pair Programming
Pair programming is where two programmers work together on a single computer. One writes the code, while the other observes and offers suggestions. I'm not talking about debugging or brainstorming together, but this p...