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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 53 posts.
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We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation
At Etsy, it’s not just engineers who write and deploy code - our designers and product managers regularly do too. And now any...
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Your developers aren’t slow
“Why didn’t we ship last week?” As managers, it’s easy for us to blame our team for missing deadlines. But are slow developers really the reason you’re not shipping on time? At Sprintly, we have a lot of data on developer cycle time. We track how long it takes them to complete different types of …
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A Cautionary Tale of Learning to Code
I was just a guy in a suit in an office with a vague startup idea. Then I decided to learn to code. I overheard some guy at a happy hour bragging about how easily he was able to automate his office workflows by using a language called Ruby. I
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Welcome, Ali
Edit: Ali is now the CEO of YC Continuity [http://ycombinator.com/continuity] I’m delighted to announce that Ali Rowghani is joining YC as a part-time partner. He will mostly focus on helping our alumni that are a few years out of YC scale their companies, but I’m sure the current batch will enjoy getting to know him…
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Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself
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Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in
Take a look into Front’s Journey to get into Y Combinator.
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How to Hire and Build a Remote Team
Since 2011, Zapier has grown from three founders cramped in a small apartment to a team of over 350 around the world. Read more
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Exploding Offers Suck
Exploding offers suck. Founders should be able to choose the investor they want to work with, not have to make a decision based on time pressure. As the world of accelerators gets more and more competitive, we’re seeing more and more exploding offers where an accelerator tries to force a company to make a decision…
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The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer
Whatsapp had 450 million monthly users and just 32 engineers when it was acquired. Imgur scaled to over 40 billion monthly image views with just seven engineers. Instagram had 30 million users and just 13 engineers when it was acquired for $1 billion dollars. This is the new normal: fewer engineers and dollars to…
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Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla
I am pleased to announce that Chris Beard has been appointed CEO of Mozilla Corp. The Mozilla board has reviewed many internal and external candidates –
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Welcome new YC team members
We have a bunch of new additions to the YC team to announce. Scott Bell is joining the YC software team. He was a co-founder of Skysheet from YC W09. He’s coming to YC from Houston where he was doing consulting and Lisp hacking. Dalton Caldwell is becoming a partner. He was the cofounder and CEO of imeem (acquired by…
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Startup advice: cold recruiting
Recruiting outside of your personal network
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So a female programmer walks into a bar…
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How to talk to an open source project as a large scale or interesting user
The very short version: if you contact an open source project anonymously, you may not get the best help.
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Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses
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