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How to hire engineering talent without the BS
Best practices for conducting effective interviews and actionable insights to build an inclusive hiring culture and hire top-tier engineering talent
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,981 posts.
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Dropping the SAT requirement is a luxury belief
Disguising self-interest as virtue
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The incompatibility of open core and profit
Is the Open Core model really all it's cracked up to be? Can we really trust Open Core companies?
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Continuous growth is cancer
I am currently affected by the wave of layoffs in the technology industry and this isn’t my first rodeo. The difference is that it feels worse this time as I am not only annoyed by losing my job, but I am starting to feel that the system is incredibly flawed. Instead of building a sustainable work environment with…
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Cucumber maintainer has been laid off
Well, this is new. After ten years building a company around the Cucumber open source project, I suddenly find myself out of a job. I...
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Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead
At the very least, let’s stop the egregiously deceptive advertising. Only Medicare should be able to call itself “Medicare.”
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My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
A classically trained sysadmin shouting into the void.
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The tech downturn seen through Hacker News comments
Yesterday, I ran my script to check how many comments on the monthly Hacker News Who's hiring post mention a remote option. Remote jobs reached a level of 75 % - 80 % and stayed there (it doesn't look like that's going to change soon), but what's striking is the drop in the …
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How Duolingo reignited user growth
The story behind Duolingo's 350% growth acceleration, leaderboards, streaks, notifications, and their innovative growth model
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OpenAI's Foundry leaked pricing says a lot
GPT4, the start of The Great Implementation, a move from Generative to Productive AI, OpenAI's safety & growth strategies, and the future of work.
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What I Learned at Stripe
In February 2022, I left my job at Splunk to take some time first to relax then to focus on finding a fantastic next job . I managed to do both during my three months of funemployment, landing a job at Stripe in the Atlas team in May. I was laid off in November 2022, along with most people who were hired during this…
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Most data work seems fundamentally worthless
After going viral, there is one comment I'd like to address. One guy pointed out how comfortable this work seemed, how high the pay was, and said I am out-of-touch and privileged. To that I say, yes, obviously . I moved to the first-world to have first-world problems. Mission accomplished.
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95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority
In 105 jurisdictions of the Bay Area, anyone can build any residential projected at any height or density so long as 20% of the units are for low income.
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The age of cargo cult Agile must end
Via LinkedIn, I learned about an article called “The age of Agile must end” by Michael Burnett, and I’ve since seen it pop up again in…
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We stand to save $7M over five years from our cloud exit
Since declaring our intention to leave the cloud in October, we've been busy at work making it so. After a brief detour down a blind alley with an enterprise Kubernetes provider, we found our stride building our own tools, and successfully moved the first small application out of the cloud a few weeks ago. Now our…
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Communication as a critical business skill
There is more to communication than just the correct use of words, phrases, and clauses. Let’s look at some of the communication skills that don’t get enough attention.
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Goodbye, CSS-Tricks
I woke up yesterday to the news that DigitalOcean has cut a bunch of jobs from the payroll. It sounds like a pretty big wave, and yes, my job was lopped off
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Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk
My post Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” really took off. It sat at the top of Hacker News for a full day, and is …
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Only Debate The Non-Linear
I sometimes feel like the course of my career has been one long vacillation1 between being too argumentative and too deferential. I’ve often struggled specifically in work contexts to discern when a debate was worth having. In the moment, it has often been difficult to suss out whether my
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B2B startups stop innovating the day you give power to product managers
The problem of product managers is not that they exist but rather that they have too much power. We have all seen these articles written by developers that explain that product managers are useless. They miss the point. I think it is pretty obvious that PMs (whether you call them …
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What does “excess liquidity sloshing around the financial system” mean?
In the recent Odd Lots AMA episode, financial journalist Tracy Alloway said …I coined the term ‘ China’s Great Ball of Money.’ This idea that you just have a bunch of extra money …
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Better to micromanage than be disengaged
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished they would trust me based on my track…
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Usage-based pricing isn't always best
When not to make consumption your primary pricing metric.
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How the Fed “Went Broke”
For the first time in modern history, the Fed is operating at a loss. This article explores what that means for savers and investors.
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From Bing to Sydney
More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.