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Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity
Bugs are a natural part of the app development process, when triaging a flood of bugs its important to understand priority versus severity.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,099 posts.
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Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech
Articles about systems, programming, and software engineering management written by Evan Meagher
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Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height
Andreessen-Horowitz has always been the most levelheaded of the major current year VC firms. While other firms were levering up on “cleantech” and nonsensical biotech startups that viol…
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RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps
This is a new series I’m going to start doing, much in the same spirit as YC’s Request for Startups . RFC doesn’t mean “ Request for Comments ” — although comments are of course welcome — but rather “Request for Co-founder.” RFC posts will be deep-dives on products and problems I find interesting or that I’m…
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An Engineering Team Where Everyone Is a Leader
Having worked for a decade as an engineer at various companies, I noticed how most teams in software often have "the" manager and "the" tech lead or "the" senior engineer. These are the decision-makers and ones that lead all projects. Many engineers go to these people asking, "What do
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Systems Thinking and Quality
Wise words from Russell Ackoff regarding systems thinking and quality improvement – and what we can learn from them
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How important are 'economies of scale'?
How important are 'economies of scale' in production and innovation?
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Little Ideas
A list of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that help explain how the world works…
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Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
It's now been more than 50 years since the first IFIP Conference on Software Engineering, and in that time there have been many different software engineering methodologies, processes, and models proposed to help software developers achieve that predictable and cost-effective process. But 50 years later, we still seem…
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State of Clojure 2020
Ten years ago, Chas Emerick ran the first State of Clojure survey. In 2010, most users had been using Clojure for just weeks or months, and few were using it as a language for serious work. This year , we see consistent and growing use for work , steady interest in the key value propositions of Clojure, and an…
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FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit
This blogpost summarizes the result of a cooperation between SoloKeys and Doyensec, and was originally published on SoloKeys blog by Emanuele Cesena. You can...
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Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?
This is a translation/guest post by Riku Merikoski. The original can be found here (in Finnish). All mistakes due to translation are my fault. On Monday 10th February 2020 something historical hap…
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The Law of Conservation of Complexity
"Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?" Larry Tesler's original law regarding complexity in software applications, and links to articles and pap
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The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction
Why prediction has overtaken perception as the biggest challenge in the field.
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Guide to Equity Compensation
Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.
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The Shifting State of Remote Work
Asynchronous Meetings, Voice Messaging, and Screen Sharing for Teams.
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Adversarial Interoperability
“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish into a dishwasher or any USB charger into any car’s cigarette lighter.But interoperability is just the...
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Twitter by the Numbers (2023): Stats, Demographics & Fun Facts
Tap here to find interesting 2023 Twitter stats, demographics, financials, and Fun Facts that will blow you away.
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Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that…
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The Problem with Palm Oil
Useful investigation for those who want to better understand the debates around palm oil production and the symptoms of a much larger problem.
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JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
The 86th JPEG meeting was held in Sydney, Australia. Among the different activities that took place, the JPEG Committee issued a Call for Evidence on learning-based image coding solutions. In addition, a First Call for Evidence on Point Cloud Coding was issued in the framework of JPEG Pleno Point Cloud Coding…
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Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups
Search through thousands of startup jobs, across any location or remote, hiring for software engineers, product managers, designers, marketing, sales, and more.
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Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google’s AdSense program. In this scam, the fraudsters demand bitcoin in exchange for a promise not to flood the publisher’s ads with so much bot and junk traffic that Google’s automated anti-fraud…
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Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)
The world of work has entered a period of unprecedented change. In the era of AI and automation, workers have to stay flexible. In Sweden, that flexibility has been commonplace for 20 years. What could the rest of the world learn from it?
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Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
(Note: This was written in 2016. I recently — in late 2019 — wrote a post about some things I’ve learned since then .)