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Don Dodge: fired from Microsoft, hired by Google

The Nerd Handbook

Michael Lopp2009247 points55 commentscited by 5Career & Management details

A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That's the nerd working on his project in his hea

Symptoms of Successful Entrepreneurs

Chrys Bader200977 points23 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Web Developers Can’t Sell. Sorry.

How Experienced Developers Can Handicap a Lean Startup

Upgrade your career

Joel on Software200996 points87 commentsCareer & Management details

Do you like your job? Do you enjoy the people you work with? Would you want to have lunch with them? Every day? Alex Papadimoulis thinks that FogTyler Griffin Hicks-Wright Creek’s free lunches are …

Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

Don Dodge is Leaving Microsoft

The power of "no"

Jacob Kaplan-Moss200971 points31 commentsCareer & Management details

What's A Non-Programmer To Do? (How I keep myself busy.)

Spencer Fry2009154 points33 commentscited by 13Life, Learning & Writing details

Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman

Stochastic Geometry2009171 points107 commentsTech Industry & Business details

If there is a lecturer in TCD’s CS department that doesn’t know of the problems and issues Joel just raised in his Capstone Projects post, they’re a rare bird indeed. But what Joe…

Startup School 2009 Notes & Summary

The Ideal Startup Career Path

programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups

Design Lessons & Advice from Building Large Scale Distributed Systems at Google

James Hamilton200983 points15 commentsSystems & Performance details

Jeff Dean of Google did an excellent keynote talk at LADIS 2009 . Jeff’s talk is up at: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/talks/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf and my notes follow:

Marc Andreessen - Guide to personal productivity

C++ in Coders at Work

Peter Seibel2009178 points169 commentsSoftware Engineering details

At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X"

In Search of a Good Idea

Andrew L. Johnson200983 points13 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

Plan to write big software - and you have already lost

How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1068 Days (2005)

Gus Mueller2009100 points5 commentsCareer & Management details

You should feel pain when unclear

Derek Sivers2009123 points25 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.

I Don't Code in my Free Time

RethinkDB looking for a technical cofounder

Slava Akhmechet200961 points54 commentsStartups details

Looking for a technical cofounder for RethinkDB.

Putting your life on the line for a 50% chance to fail

Unit testing in Coders at Work

Peter Seibel2009109 points85 commentsSoftware Engineering details

The Einstein Principle: Accomplish More By Doing Less

Cal Newport200950 points17 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

Einstein’s Push Between the years 1912 to 1915, Albert Einstein was a focused man. His previous work on the special theory of relativity and the ... Read more

Apple iOffer (Offer letter done the Apple way)

Rands: Hurry

Michael Lopp200981 points12 commentsCareer & Management details

Most interesting ideas come to me between 8am and 10am. This is sacred time. The day is young, I am rested, and the coffee is fresh. I spend most of this time i

Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man

A Shout Out to My Pepys2009148 points111 commentsCareer & Management details

I enjoy my new job. I thought I wouldn't. The past few years were spent at dot coms, which present themselves as an employee paradise. Casual dress, flexible hours, innovation, a fun atmosphere, perks, and the lure of possible big money cashouts: everyone wants it! The software tools are sexy and…

You're the Smartest Guy In The Room ... but please, try to restrain yourself.