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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 262 posts.
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United Airlines Bug Bounty: An experience in reporting a serious vulnerability
About six months ago, United Airlines announced their Bug Bounty program and, almost immediately, it received a ton of press. Though I initially wasn’t interested in pursuing the program (mainly due to its popularity), I decided to take a look a week or two after its launch despite being late to the party. Shortly…
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On Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners and Theft.
The rants and raves of Simon Wardley on Evolution, Technology, Economics and Business
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What I’ve learned from sitting next to a pro salesman
(for audio version click here)
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How to Be a Lawyer Without Going to Law School
A handful of lawyers practice law in the United States without a law degree, bypassing three years of hell (and thousands of dollars in college debt). Here's how.
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Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome Is the Wrong Metaphor
Imposter syndrome is often presented as a personal failing. A lack of confidence, our wrong-headed beliefs not matching the reality of how competent we are, or worst of a flaw of our gender. Just...
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Leave Work Unassigned and See Who Steps Forward
Early in my career, I noticed the project managers in my company drove nicer cars than we programmers did. (This was back before companies had learned to ful...
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Writing code doesn't mix well with oration
Why writing code live on stage is a bad idea, and what to do instead.
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The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source
For many years I was whole hog into the open-source movement and at the time I rarely wrote a stitch of code in my free time that didn’t find itself in a public Sourceforge/GCode/Github repo. 1 However, over time I came to learn that the burden that came with publicly offering code to the universe, to put it mildly…
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Interview Humiliation
(All these great ideas, but no one is listening? Check out my book: Convincing Coworkers )
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List of Y Combinator companies I have worked with (hacked)
Background: I have worked with lots of companies as security consultant through bug bounties either I asked them if they need my service or they approached. I’m a big fan of Paul’s essa…
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Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember
(even if you’re not that old)
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Use this instead of press releases
I’m QUITE TIRED of dealing with MILLIONS of tech entrepreneurs (these days there are a HELL of a lot of you) and (some) PR people who have ZERO clue how to pitch me/TechCrunch/the media. Their pitches are long-winded and rambling. They ask if they could ‘send some more information’. Listen, I have no idea if it’s…
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Early employees take the most risk today
Why are we still using old 1990’s cap tables and the same tiny option grants for employees as we did back then? Is that fair? To whom? Is…
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Destroy all hiring processes
Finding work as a software person kind of sucks sometimes. Actually, let me strike the "kind of" from that sentence. …
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VW
Do you know the name Michael Horn ? He’s the CEO of Volkswagen of America . You know what’s going on with Volkswagen, right? Dieselgate? The fact that the software that controls the Diesel engine in some of their cars was specifically written to defeat emissions tests? Yeah, apparently that software could detect when…
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Wanna quit your job and become upwork freelancer? Do not do that
Almost every day I receive job offers on my 5 star odesk (upwork) profile . I do not search anything manually, clients contacting me directl...
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We Looked for Work as a Software Development Team
Part of this story is a common one. Established company in an industry undergoing major disruption hires developers to innovate back to viability. Management lacks clear vision of what that means and so chops and changes ( not pivots, that’s something else) technology strategy several times. After two years of hard…