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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,748 posts.
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Lead Bullets (2011)
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Sucks to be an old engineer
As if the coming wave of foreign engineers resulting from the inevitable immigration bill isn’t bad enough, I saw this comment left on a Wall Street Journal article: At my recent 40th Stanford reun…
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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)
2008 is a leap year. That means that three hundred and sixty six days ago, almost to the minute, I was sitting alone in a booth at Zeke’s Sports Bar and Grill on 3rd Street in San Francisco. I wouldn’t normally hang out at a sports bar, let alone a sports bar in SOMA, but back then Thursday was “I Can Has Ruby” night…
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Getting a job in San Francisco
You’re living outside the US and want to get a job in San Francisco? This might help you getting one.
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How to work remotely as a software developer
Working from home gives you the freedom to get a lot done, away from the distractions of office life. On the other hand, it also gives the freedom to goof off all day!
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Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job
How to Land an Engineering Job.
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The One-Person Product
In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies . That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client , David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he’d had for a while. He had already bought the domain: tumblr.com , because it was…
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The Three Kinds of Laziness
We speak of three kinds of laziness. The first is simply to spend all your time eating and sleeping. The second is to tell yourself, "Someone like me will never manage to perfect themselves." In...
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Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint”
"We have study hall at the beginning of our meetings." says Jeff Bezos. Staff meetings at Amazon begin with 30 minutes of silent reading. Powerpoint is easy for presenter, hard for audience "The traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. Somebody gets up in front of the room and presents with a…
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The N=1 Guide to Grad School: Advice for Aspiring PhDs
Last August, I finished my Ph.D. with the help of a bunch of amazing people. I submitted my thesis, and on a bus in Turkey during my post-graduation vacation, I put together a list of practices and mindsets that I sometimes stuck to while working on my Ph.D. Over the last few months, I added some details, and you'll…
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Why I Develop For The Mac
UPDATE, 5/7/2013 : Some off-hand remarks in this article about HTML5 drawing speeds generated some controversy in the hackersphere. To read more, see Adrian Holovaty's post In Defense of <canvas> , and my response, Hackers and <canvas> .
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How we failed our YC interview
We had our YC interview on Friday and were super confused after it. We sort of expected that. We talked to over a dozen YC founders and ...
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