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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,087 posts.
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If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It
The Courage Fallacy In 2005, Lisa Feuer quit her marketing job. She had held this same position throughout her 30s before deciding, at the age of ... Read more
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Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month
Therapists don't tell you what to do. Rather, they ask probing questions that get you to discover for yourself what is true for you, your situation, and what you want. Similarly, these ten questions will force you to make the important decisions about your business. Ask them of yourself every month instead of writing…
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A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this economy
So almost two months ago, I found a new job. After I came back home from Seattle, my wife and I stayed at her dad's house - he helped us t...
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Make More Than GPA
25% Drop in free playtime for 6-to-8-year-olds from 1981 to ’97, while homework more than doubled. Time 30Nov, p.57.
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“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
Dec 18 Update: This morning I was contacted by a PayPal manager from their fraud department who talked with me close to an hour. He went out of his way to apologize for their mishandling of my case. He told me that...
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Gaming the System
On my list of creative management solutions to dire situations, I offer the rolling whiteboard. The rolling whiteboard was a curiosity at the start-up. Not a f
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Linux System Administration Basics
This guide covers almost everything you wanted to know about Linux system administration but were afraid to ask about.
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Smart People should do Stupid Stuff
I was fortunate to attend Olin College of Engineering with some of the brightest minds in the country, and the bar of achievement was set high. Inside the classroom, we worked on problems that were mind-numbingly complex and intricate. Outside of class, most students aimed to develop incredibly elaborate and…
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Asshole driven development
[Since this was originally posted commenters have added 100+ addition methods – see the comments below. There’s more commentary on reddit] The software industry might be the world’…
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Paul Graham On Two Kinds of Programmers and Painters
In the world of painting there are some people who are just fabulously talented at drawing. They can sit down, these are like the kids who c...
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Saying "NO"
I saw this cartoon in a tweet today. It’s the story of how a boss corrupts the work of a professional. It’s a funny cartoon, and a sad story that happens all too often in our profession. But who, exactly, was at fault?...
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Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them? Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate…
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Hardest delegating lesson to learn: Trust but verify.
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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