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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
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What do you mean ‘we need more time’? Project schedule estimation in software
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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We're ditching the office completely
Last week we closed down Buffer's only physical office. We're now fully, truly remote. Here are the reasons why.
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Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment
Posted by Daniele Procida, Adrienne Lowe on Feb. 4, 2016
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How We Get Things Done (2015)
The technology behind Canva. We're sharing how we solve complex engineering problems to empower everyone in the world to design.
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Why I work remotely has nothing to do with productivity
Illustration by Nate Otto These are some of the things I can do because I’m fortunate to work for a company that lets me work from anywhere: Hug my kids and feed them breakfast before they lea…
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Why Is Your Team Falling Behind? Ask ‘The Penny Game’
Use the Penny Game to explore the difference between capacity and output, and why backlogs invariably grow, no matter how hard you work.
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Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
Here we would like to share our thoughts about these issues and what we’re planning to do to make things better with GitLab.
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Permission to Fail
Startups are not easy, it's a rollercoast of small triumps and losses, and emotional highs and lows, learn the valuable lesson of accepting failure.
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My Complicated Relationship with No Longer Being CEO
It's been 22 months since I stepped down as the CEO of Moz and turned over the role to my longtime Chief Operating Officer and close friend, Sarah Bird.
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Everything I Needed to Know About Good UX I Learned While Working in Restaurants
Good UX has great customer service at its base. Restaurants provide many instructive examples for designers.
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Why Are Projects Always Behind Schedule?
Possibly because your boss is an idiot.
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Introducing Buffer's Salary Calculator & New Salary Formula
We’re sharing a new version of Buffer's transparent salary formula, and a web app that anyone can use to find out what you might make on the team at Buffer.
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How to Be a Lawyer Without Going to Law School
A handful of lawyers practice law in the United States without a law degree, bypassing three years of hell (and thousands of dollars in college debt). Here's how.
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Leave Work Unassigned and See Who Steps Forward
Early in my career, I noticed the project managers in my company drove nicer cars than we programmers did. (This was back before companies had learned to ful...
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Welcome Jared
I’m delighted to share that Jared Friedman is joining YC as a full-time partner. Jared co-founded Scribd, the world’s online library, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2006. He was the CTO there. Jared has also been an investor in more than 30 YC companies. Before Scribd, he studied computer science at Harvard…
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Ph.D. recipients in computing fields are primarily non-US residents in the US
Overall, non-US residents received 1,210 (54%) of the 2,244 computing related Ph.D. degrees awarded in the U.S. in 2013. This map illustrates that while non-U.S. residents received more than 50% of the Ph.D.s awarded in the majority of states, there was considerable variation across the states. Interestingly, a…
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A Decade at Google
One of the key challenges you face in an industrial research lab is how to choose your projects. You want your projects to be interesting research but also contribute to your company. As a junior researcher, you’re typically in the situation of choosing a project to join, while later in your career you are expected to…
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Welcome Anne, Ben, and Joe
Note: Anne, Ben and Joe are no longer part-time partners. I’m delighted to announce three new part-time partners. Anne Wojcicki is the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe. Anne is one of the world experts on biotechnology and healthcare companies; her guidance will be invaluable to the increasing numbers of these companies…
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