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I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
We were magicians and the web was our magic
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,747 posts.
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Lessons learned from the recent job hunt
A recap of the recent interview process with several companies, what I learned, and what others should know.
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The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing.
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Master’s Degree in Computer Science
I’m currently applying for a master’s degree in computer science (MSCS). I thought I might share my experience here for other people in the same boat as me. My boat is that I’m a …
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After the first tech job
One must imagine Sisyphus practicing leetcode mediums...
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Writing a book for O'Reilly
Part One of a series on how I came to be writing for O’reilly, and what the process is like
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Brendan at Intel.com
Brendan@Intel.com
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My experience getting a tech job with no degree or relevant work experience
Sometimes you see a headline or a Youtube video “How I got into tech without a C.S.
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Experience Report: 6 months of Go
A report of my positive and negative experiences with Go after using it for 6 months at work.
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Writing for Engineers
This article is available as Korean- (thanks to longfin ) and Chineese- (thanks to webup ) translation.
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Founding Uber SRE
This is my personal story of starting the SRE organization at Uber. If you want advice rather than reminiscence, take a look at Trunk and Branches Model and Productivity in the age of hypergrowth. After I left SocialCode in 2014, I spent a month interviewing at a handful of companies trying to figure out what to do…
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My startup is broken
Whenever I advise (or join!) a startup, one of the first conversations goes something like this: "Oh man. Everything here is broken! It sucks! There's so much to do and not enough people to do it. We're missing so many things, we don't know where to start! The product needs so much work. Marketing needs
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We need someone who has done “it” before
Have you (or your company) tried repeatedly to hire for Role X?
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I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)
Software developer based in Montréal, Canada
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Talk like a systems engineer: Yaks all the way down
Professional niches have – time immemorial – built their own special dialects and languages, sometimes using this as an…
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The Machine Learning Job Market
I was on the job market recently, open to suggestions on what I should do next. I'm deeply thankful to all those who reached out and pitched their companies, and also to people who shared their wisdom of how they wanted to navigate their own careers.
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Start with who, not why
Work with amazing people you love collaborating with, the rest (mission, purpose, etc) falls out from that.
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Principles of Engineering Management
More than 2 years ago, I decided to try to create a brief, digestible manual on the expectations of management for senior engineers at my company who are considering making the shift. At the time, …
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Beginners Guide to 0day/CVE AppSec Research
A while ago I took up the challenge to get Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE) certified. During this journey I learned many awesome things. The most important lesson learned was that with source code and a debugger, I could find vulnerabilities exponentially faster than by using traditional Blackbox/Bug-Bounty…
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Resumes are dangerous?
I've been interviewing engineers for a while now, and it seems the more interviews I do, the more I realize how many my initial assumptions about hiring were wrong. For example, take resumes. Initially, before every interview I'd carefully review resumes. I'd look at candidate's past
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Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Software Mise En Place
I am really, really into cooking. In the heady days of 2016 I regularly threw dinner parties for 30+ people. These days I don't hate myself that much, but...
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I stopped working on black hole information loss
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten
It’s been a while since I was on the receiving end of a software engineering interview. But I still remember my favorite interview question. It was at MemSQL circa 2013. (They haven’t even kept their name, so I assume they’re not still relying on this specific interview question. I don’t feel bad for revealing it…
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When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
When hiring developers, there are many things we are looking for, but over the years I have found that raw coding ability is easily the most important quality to look for. I can quickly…