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Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Our thoughts on compensation, and how they reflect Oxide's values.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 14 posts.
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Doing a Job – The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover
Excerpt from a speech Adm. Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) gave at Columbia University in 1982 outlining his leadership style.
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Google SRE - Defining slo: service level objective meaning
SRE SLO book to understand service level objective meaning and the various service level terminilogy including sla slo sli to improve service reliability.
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Google SRE - Blameless Postmortem for System Resilience
Blameless postmortems in SRE culture. Incident study that focus on root cause analysis and preventive actions, for culture of continuous improvement.
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We still believe in private offices (2015)
There was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument , the Internet agreed that private offices were the future, and only incompetent management (or a tight budget) was still putting developers in cubicle farms. A glorious future lay before us.
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Why I did not go to jail (2014)
A lot of people have been asking me what my upcoming book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, will be like. Here’s a piece that I wrote for the book that did not make the cut. I still think it’s a pretty good story and gives you a flavor. I just tell the truth so...
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Update on an Employee Matter
On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. Later that day and over the weekend, employees raised concerns about the circumstances of the separation. We took these concerns seriously.…
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What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his...
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Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp
Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp.
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‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
Six years, no deadlines, and one rule: write some code every day. That slow, stubborn routine turned a side project into a sustainable search company.
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Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Fellow Amazonians:
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Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome
The first half of this conversation is a searingly honest account of...
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Full cycle developers – Operate what you build (2018)
Operating what you build, empowered with amazing developer tools