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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 363 posts.
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From Leading the Egyptian Revolution to Making Minimum Wage in San Francisco
In 2011, Ahmed Salah was a leading Egyptian revolutionary who met with ambassadors and Secretaries of State. Now he is nearly homeless in San Francisco.
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A decade of writing at Mozilla
Today—April 3, 2016—marks the tenth anniversary of the day I started working at Mozilla as a writer on the Mozilla Developer Center project (now, of course, the Mozilla Developer Network or MDN). T…
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Years and lessons working at ThoughtWorks
I’ve been at ThoughtWorks for 12 years. Who would have imagined? Instead of writing about my reflections on the past year, I thought I would do something different and post twelve key learnings and observations looking back over my career. I have chosen twelve, not because there are only twelve, but because it fits…
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The Tools of a Blind Programmer
The Life of a Completely Blind Programmer in the Netherlands
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Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management
I first started managing people seven years ago, three years after I graduated and got my first design job. At the time, I was woefully…
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For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies
Learn about the journey navigating through over 100 job interviews, and finally achieving a highly coveted job opportunity at Booking.com.
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Asana Engineering Interview Guide
Because an engineering interview shouldn't be a grueling trial by fire or ruthless interrogation.
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Where are you in your company's layoff list?
Where are you in your company's layoff list? Every company has one, even if it's just a vague idea in the mind of the CEO. By looking a...
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What I Learned Selling a Software Business
Some lessons learned in selling a bootstrapped software business. Relevant to buyers or sellers.
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Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
How far is too far when it comes to including people with different beliefs?
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My Passion Was My Weak Spot
For many years in the beginning of my career I’d been more than happy to work for free or even at a loss as long as the work was interesting. I was so totally in love with computer programming and the feeling I got from making something work and then seeing that creation be used by other people that I completely lost…
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We only hire the trendiest
An acquaintance of mine, let’s call him Mike, is looking for work after getting laid off from a contract role at Microsoft, which has happened to a lot of people I know. Like me, Mike has 11 years in industry. Unlike me, he doesn't know a lot of folks at trendy companies, so I passed his resume around to some…
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Giving Up on TDD
You mean the one where he says that he tried it for a few months and then gave up? Yes, I read it.
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Being a Female Developer
Insights for leaders building AI systems by Andela
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Firing People
Firing People: a talk about firing people, by Zach Holman.
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On asking job candidates to code
At DigitalOcean, we are making some changes to the recruitment process of back-end developers. We simplified the job description and the interview process, and added a step that asks the candidate ...
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Diving into Other People's Code
This post will walk you through an exercise in diving into someone else's code. The goal will be to make an arbitrary change to the code of the Spyder Python IDE , a project I have never touched before in my life, and learn just enough about it to accomplish what I want without getting bogged down. You will learn how…
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A better offer letter
At Carta we spend a lot of time thinking about how to better educate employees on startup equity. Even new hires at Carta often don’t…
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With book on Go, Kernighan guides students at Princeton and beyond
Rob Pike and colleagues at Google have written a new computer language called Go; and Brian Kernighan, professor of computer science at Princeton, has co-written the book on it — "The Go Programming Language."
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Welcome x 11
We have a lot of new additions to the team to announce. Tim Brady is joining YC as a Partner. Previously, he was a Partner at ImagineK12. Tim was Yahoo’s first employee and spent 8 years as the company’s Chief Product Officer. Tim was also the CEO of QuestBridge, an educational startup that helps bright low-income…
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John Carmack on Idea Generation
Last year at an internal talk at Facebook I was fortunate to see [John Carmack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack) speak about his idea generation system. At first I was disappointed because...