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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,087 posts.
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Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will.
When you're starting a business, you have to wear a lot of hats. You don't have an HR department, or an IT department, or a marketing department, or any specialized department, so if a press...
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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.
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Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding
On occasion you meet a developer who seems like a solid programmer. They know their theory, they know their language. They can have a reasonable conversation about programming. But once it comes do…
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Rands in Repose: The Noise
It started that morning when you actually had time to go to your favorite coffee shop on that Wednesday morning. You, like many of us, had a bunch of time off f
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Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impossible
StackExchange/StackOverflow is broke. Real broke. Have you tried to participate in it? If so then you know how broke it is. But for those of you who haven’t sit back and get a view into fru…
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Why I Left Google
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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What Stops Female Founders?
The lack of women in tech startups seems a perennially hot topic. I’m keenly aware of this problem because I see so many founders, and so few of them are women. I’m delighted to have 6 women at...
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Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Stop Saying ‘Let me know when works for you’
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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ACM considered harmful
The Association of Computing Machinery is the premier US representative body for computer science and according to its own blurb: “serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge …
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Delegate or die: the self-employed trap
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.
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Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Rands in Repose: Managing Nerds
Ten years ago, the world was collectively freaked out by the Y2K bug. The idea was that when innumerable software-driven clocks flipped at midnight from 1999 to
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My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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Hack Week at Dropbox
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmers
Programming is a skill in demand. Programming can get you a job. A guide to finding good programmers, Perl and otherwise.