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How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)
Technology, startups, programming, technical management and software architecture
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E*Trade Announces $0 Base Commissions for Online Stock, ETF, and Options Trades
Stop waiting. Start investing. Lifelong dreams don't need to take a lifetime with E*TRADE.
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Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world
An irony of studying history is that we often know exactly how a story ends, but have no idea where…
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Pricing niche products
I recently visited a friend who runs Keycult , a business that designs and sells $500 keyboard kits.
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We decided to go for the big rewrite
For small programs, where it would be a question of a few days or a few weeks to rewrite them, it will generally not be worth pondering this question for very long, and in most cases it will be better to just get started on either fixing the existing implementation or on rewriting it. For small programs it is possible…
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Why some software developers hate Agile
Many developers have been voicing their concerns about Agile being broken lately. Among them are prominent figures like Robert C. Martin and Kent Beck – two of the people who charted the original Agile Manifesto. Why is that?
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Global Smartphone Market Share: Quarterly
Counterpoint Research Insight
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Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?
Social media companies have moderation SNAFUs on a near daily basis. Inevitably, the public and the tech press reacts with incredulity, “This company has so much money. How can they still be so bad…
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If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire
I see that the chairman of another major private equity fund has graced us with his wisdom on investing. I’ll summarize it for you:
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The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon
Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.
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Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration
A new type of vaccine that can be stored at warmer temperatures, removing the need for refrigeration, has been developed for mosquito-borne virus Chikungunya in a major advance in vaccine technology. The findings, published in Science Advances today [Wednesday 25 September], reveal exceptionally promising results for…
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The Myth of Commoditized Excellence
Contents A New Idea Desire to Share Affirming Response The Naming The Movement Pressure for Simplification Fear of Stagnation Commoditizing the Excellence Crescendo of Disillusionment Conclusion A
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KDE is adopting GitLab
GitLab announced that KDE is adopting GitLab for use by its developers to further enhance infrastructure accessibility and encourage contributions.
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The Great Public Market Reckoning
Dan Primack wrote in his friday newsletter: Public market investors have become less willing to leave their comfort zones, and it’s manifesting most obviously in the IPO market.Novel disruption has fallen out of favor, with many preferring more time-tested models like enterprise SaaS and biotech.Peloton yesterday…
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Which companies are using Erlang, and why?
Once upon a time, Cisco, Ericsson, Klarna, Goldman Sachs, T-Mobile, WhatsApp, Amazon and many other top companies kept a secret. Erlang was that badly kept secret. Discover more on our blog.
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Event Modeling
Event Modeling is a way to design a blueprint for an Information System of any size or scale. It is done in a way that allows the clearest communication of the system's workings to the largest possible cross-section of roles in an organization. The system can be checked for completeness by following the single thread…
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New productivity software startups
There's a wave of companies trying to find new ways to make software for work, building bundles of workflows and networks that capture the spreadsheets, emails and phone calls of some industry or profession and turn them into structure, automation and time.
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Culture Fit Interview Questions
Hire by Google is no longer available. Hire by Google was sunset on September 1, 2020. We are deeply grateful to our customers who have joined and supported us along the way.
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Yogababble
Malcolm Gladwell writes about a fascinating episode in history. Neville Chamberlain’s first plane ride was a trip to meet Adolf Hitler. The British Prime Minister was taken by Hitler’s charisma. He believed the German leader when he promised not to invade Czechoslovakia. After his triumphant return from Germany…
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MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud
Earlier this month, employees at more than 1,000 companies saw one or two paycheck’s worth of funds deducted from their bank accounts after the CEO of their cloud payroll provider absconded with $35 million in payroll and tax deposits from customers . On Monday, the CEO was arrested and allegedly confessed that the…
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The curious economics of being ripped off on holiday
I once wrote that there are two types of charges: the ones you see coming and the ones you don’t. Perhaps I was too reductive. There’s a third category: the fees that you know are looming, but the …
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What do executives do, anyway?
An executive with 8,000 indirect reports and 2000 hours of work in a year can afford to spend, at most, 15 minutes per year per person in th...
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Self-serve first: an overlooked paradigm underlying great software companies
“My biggest regret is that our first customer was $1M ACV*,” my friend lamented over coffee the other day. “I wish I could take it back.”
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An HTML attribute potentially worth $4.4M to Chipotle
I recently found myself racing to fill out Chipotle’s online order form before my mother could find her credit card. In the process, I discovered a bug that could cost Chipotle $4.4 million annually. My parents are retired. They continue to try to pay for meals. I don’t want them…