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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,087 posts.
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The Long Grind Before You Become an Overnight Success
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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DevDays 2011 is Cancelled
It’s my fault, actually. I took a perfectly good thing (DevDays ’09) and gold plated it until it was a different thing.
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Ridiculously Transparent
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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Applying to YC as a Single Founder
In a comment I made on Hacker News , I expressed my desire to write an article about the differences and misconceptions between being a single-founder and having co-founders. This is not that article, but it is related. The application for YC W12 is open, and in response to my comment I received a few emails asking…
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steve yegge - five-essential-phone-screen-questions
The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ I've been on a lot of SDE interview loops lately where the candidate failed miserably: not-inclined votes all around, even from the phone screeners who brought the person in initially. It's usually pretty obvious when the
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So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs
There are a couple of broad categories of programmers working on video game teams. If programmer is your player class, then the following types are your spec. Programmers are all warlocks and mages…
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A hacker's guide to college
In most professions, a college degree is a prerequisite for a job, even if doing the job doesn’t strictly require one. Your degree is used as a proxy to figure out whether you’re qualified because there is no better measure: “Oh, he went to a good school, he must be smart. Let’s bring him in for an interview.”
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Resigned
Steve Jobs’s greatest creation.
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Preparing To Fire an Executive
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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Annual Developer Income Report
It is over one year since I gave up my day job to become an independent developer (It is more than a year but I have missed a few reports so I will sum 12 months that has been reported on this blog…
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An Intern Guide to a Summer in the Bay Area
Dear Future Intern, Welcome! You just got an internship at this amazing start-up, so you're starting to look for housing and are getting pumped for your summer. Rightfully so - the Bay Area is awesome! I spent my last two summers out here as an intern, first at Facebook and (am currently at my last day) at 2bkco, an…
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How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?
credit Having been back in the freelance world for a while now, I once again have to deal with quoting my clients an hourly rate for long-term contract work on an ongoing basis. I've been able to...
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How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.