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A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)
Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
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The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta
Meta runs an aggressive process. If you don't know the rules, you will fail.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment lays off 900 people
The PlayStation community means everything to us, so I felt it was important to update you on a difficult day at our company. We have made the extremely hard decision to announce our plan to commence a reduction of our overall headcount globally by about 8% or about 900 people, subject to local law and […]
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Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
Interviews should be as close as possible to the work that the candidate would do if they join. While that seems like a pretty tautological statement, it is unfortunately not always true. When interviewing as a software engineer, for example, you’ll run into places that lean heavily on algorithms interviews. And don’t…
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OKRs Are Bullshit
It's a new year, time for a new rant! And yes, before you ask, the post title is deliberately provocative. You might say this is my ploy to get more paid subscribers, because only paid subscribers can leave comments and I expect that the title alone will make many of you want to comment. 😝
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Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
We had interviewees use ChatGPT without their interviewer knowing. Here's what happened.
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Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.
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Scrum Sucks
Breaking news: Scrum is bad.
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My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad
As a full-time software engineer at Kapwing and full-time wanderer, I've learned a few things about how to be a digital nomad.
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All code is technical debt
As adding more code to a product will slow down development, we should view all code as technical debt.
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The Apollo Syndrome
This page describes 'The Apollo Syndrome', a phenomenon discovered by Dr Meredith Belbin where teams of highly capable individuals can, collectively, perform badly.
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More product, fewer product managers
There has been a lot of discussion about how many Product Managers (PMs) are required in a product team. This conversation gained momentum after Airbnb restructured their product management organization, followed by articles about how startups are thriving without any PMs.
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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
After more than 11 years, HashiCorp Co-Founder Mitchell Hashimoto pens a heartfelt goodbye letter to the company he helped create.
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Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
Mira Murati as CTO, Greg Brockman returns as President. Read messages from CEO Sam Altman and board chair Bret Taylor.
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An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020)
After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here's one ex-Googler's guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you're feeling, and introducing these to your new team.
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How do I become a graphics programmer?
It is often difficult to know where to start when taking your first in the world of graphics. This guide is here to help with a discussion of first steps and a list of useful websites.
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Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)
How to spot moral meltdowns before it's too late.
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75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time They Reported Wrongdoing
53% of software engineers have suspected wrongdoing at work with ~145,000 software engineers in the UK having experienced retaliation the last time they reported it to their employers. For those who didn't report unethical behaviour, fear of retaliation from management was reported as the top reason (59%).
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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.
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Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
Introduction After struggling a lot with my mental health (anxiety, depressive condition) for several years, I was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, at the age of 44. This diagnosis shocked me a lot: I wasn’t a wild child, in fact, I was even a good pupil. With the help…
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Ship Shape
How Canva does hand-drawn shape recognition in the browser
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Interview with Jeff Geerling
Andrew Gregory of HackSpace magazine sat down with the one and only Jeff Geerling to chat about the wholesome corner of the internet he created.
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How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer [video]
Dalton & Michael: The stories are true: technical founders (and early technical employees!) often end up with the short end of the stick when starting a company. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we'll discuss how to keep that from happening to you.
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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering
Learn about the eleven lessons, from two decades, shared by site reliability engineers at Google, essential SRE lessons and core principles of SRE.
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Common-knowledge effect: A bias in team decision making
Teams often make worse decisions than individuals by relying too much on widely understood data while disregarding information possessed by only a few individuals.
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I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long it took me to apply to each one. Here is what I found.
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Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
ESET researchers uncover a Lazarus attack against an aerospace company in Spain, where the group deployed several tools, including a publicly undocumented backdoor we named LightlessCan.
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Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer
In this episode of "Just Ship It," Evan You, the creator of Vue.js and Vite, discusses his journey to becoming an independent open source developer. His dedicat