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We Only Hire the Best
How many times have you heard a company claim that they only hire the best? The top of the top. The crème de la crème. Most of them, by sheer necessity of math, are delusional. There just aren’t th…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
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Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job
I was first introduced to start-ups as a career choice during my post-uni “I’m not getting a city job” phase. Although that’s still going…
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Code reviews aren’t just for catching bugs
What are code reviews, and why are they such an important part of Fullstory's culture? Learn about this tradition, inspired by Google, and the five ways we think it benefits FullStorians.
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“Ask 'why' five times about every matter”
Toyota Motor Corporation Site introduces "Company". Toyota strives to be a good corporate citizen trusted by all stakeholders and to contribute to the creation of an affluent society through all its business operations. We would like to introduce the Corporate Principles which form the basis of our initiatives, values…
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Why most mobile development projects fail
You just signed a new client. You are excited to work on this new project. It’s technically challenging and financially fulfilling. You’re going to do your absolute best to make this project a success for you and your client. You’re hoping to build your reputation along the way by featuring this client in your…
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BYOT: Bring your own team
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Three teen sisters who win medals in coding competitions
Elene first lit up the path toward coding for her sisters Mari and Ani. We learn how the sisters have achieved so much at such a young age.
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Curing Our Slack Addiction
Expert articles, security news, product updates, guides, and research from 1Password on password management, privacy, and digital security.
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Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
In this blog post we caught up with Chris Jones, a Site Reliability Engineer on Google App Engine for the past three-and-a-half years and SRE at Google for almost 9 years, to find out more about running production systems at Google. Chris is also one of the editors of S ite Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs…
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From Leading the Egyptian Revolution to Making Minimum Wage in San Francisco
In 2011, Ahmed Salah was a leading Egyptian revolutionary who met with ambassadors and Secretaries of State. Now he is nearly homeless in San Francisco.
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For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies
Learn about the journey navigating through over 100 job interviews, and finally achieving a highly coveted job opportunity at Booking.com.
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Asana Engineering Interview Guide
Because an engineering interview shouldn't be a grueling trial by fire or ruthless interrogation.
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Being a Female Developer
Insights for leaders building AI systems by Andela
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With book on Go, Kernighan guides students at Princeton and beyond
Rob Pike and colleagues at Google have written a new computer language called Go; and Brian Kernighan, professor of computer science at Princeton, has co-written the book on it — "The Go Programming Language."
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Welcome x 11
We have a lot of new additions to the team to announce. Tim Brady is joining YC as a Partner. Previously, he was a Partner at ImagineK12. Tim was Yahoo’s first employee and spent 8 years as the company’s Chief Product Officer. Tim was also the CEO of QuestBridge, an educational startup that helps bright low-income…
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Is group chat making you sweat?
Is this you? Are you making other feel like this? Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. In 2006 we launched Campfire, the first modern SAAS group ch…
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What Developers Should Know About Job Searching and Negotiation
Patrick McKenzie on the ins and outs of job searching for engineers
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Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary
Single interview outcomes aren't as reliable as you might think.