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Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte
Ethan Marcotte's book, "You Deserve a Tech Union," provides a mix of practical guidelines and steps that tech workers can take to form a union.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
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What the interns have wrought, 2023 edition
We’re once again at the end of our internship season, and it’s my task to provide a few highlights of what the dev interns accomplished while they were here.
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Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
Raylene Yung has spent a decade scaling eng and product teams at Facebook and Stripe. Here's her advice for engineers at every stage of their careers, from IC to org leader.
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Prisoners of Google Android development
A real Android release case study showing how a small API-level update caused production crashes, Google Play delays, and limited rollback options.
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Winner’s Curse: Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid
Imagine that at the beginning of class, a professor produces a jar full of coins and announces that he is auctioning it off. Students can write down a bid, he explains, and the highest bidder wins the contents of the jar in exchange for his or her bid.
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Common mistakes in salary negotiation
We've helped hundreds of people negotiate an average of $50k more. These are the two mistakes we can't undo.
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A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
A practical guide to a good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
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Be careful of the examples you use. They stick
Introduction We spend huge amounts of time sweating the details of our products. We want to remove all the friction we can from using them and want to make sure we never leave our users confused. To get this right, we do a bunch of things: we use simple language, we make extensive use of context-sensitive…
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Kris Nóva has died
An announcement from Nivenly about Kris Nóva
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When to invest in marketing
"Don't invest in paid marketing" might be one of the most common startup recommendations - but when should you? In this article we'll explore when to invest in marketing and how to avoid losing millions of dollars by setting sequential marketing objectives.
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Stefan Tilkov has died
INNOQ Deutschland mourns the loss of its co-founder and CEO, Stefan Tilkov
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Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote
Virtual space platform to help remote teams collaborate.
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Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing
If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.
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On Becoming a VP of Engineering pt. 2
Join Emily for part 2 of her series on becoming VP of Engineering, where she opens up about the good and bad parts of transitioning to VP.
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On Becoming a VP of Engineering
People rarely talk about how they made it into the role of VP of Engineering. Join Emily as she opens up about the process - good and bad.
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Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of enthusiast programmers is ending
Justin Searls on the looming demise of the 10x developer: Why an era of enthusiast programmers is coming to an end.
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The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews
Companies spend thousands of dollars to buy fake reviews and get bad ones removed.
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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements
Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy.
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A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews
Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG about their processes.
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DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
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New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes
Monumental changes to New York law on non-compete agreements appear imminent. On June 7, 2023, the New York State Senate approved two bills concerning non-compete agreements. The first, Bill No. S3100A, proposes a ban on all non-compete agreements, while the second, Bill No. S6748, proposes a limited ban of certain…
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Presentations and pitch decks by failures and frauds
Discover investor presentations and pitch decks from leading companies on Slidebook.
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Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. He sent the following email to all employees:
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What you give up by moving into engineering management
Moving into a management role may be a rewarding step in your career, but you should know about the things you're leaving behind.
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DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model
As DevOps adoption increases, it becomes more likely the certification industrial complex will try to apply the wrong model.
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Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)
Interruptions and context switching are the two most costly factors that directly impact a programmer's daily productivity. Although there is no permanent way to avoid them, there are some interesting strategies to minimize their impact. The Cost of an Interruption Based on various scientific studies, it takes at…
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AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
Just yesterday I commented on the ban to ChatGPT imposed in Italy by the Authority under the banner of preserving privacy and fighting potential misinformation.