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Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
Big companies have a way of accidentally stepping on little companies sometimes. But every once in awhile, they leave us better off.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 363 posts.
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Never accept a counter-offer
I guess we all have experienced a job change at least once. There might be different reasons to change the job; new opportunities, better salary, problems with coworkers and so on. I call it a trigger of a change. When it triggers, it’s hard to stop and there are two possible scenarios afterwards
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“Why do you work in security instead of something more lasting?”
This post grew out of a friend on Facebook asking (I paraphrase) "why do you spend your time on security instead of using your brainpower f...
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Employee #1: Coinbase
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I’m joining the Go team at Google
I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be primarily based in NYC.
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How to Get a Job in Deep Learning
Explore resources and tools created to inspire creativity, perform deep learning, and equip your company with Voice AI best practices.
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Why You Need More Than Passion to be Successful
Stay ahead with the latest trends in experience analytics, digital marketing, product management, customer experience, and much more.
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An A/B Testing Story
A successful test for Appointment Reminder, and how you can get started testing more.
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Employee #1: Dropbox
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Consistency is Consistently Undervalued
Transactions are mundane and commonplace. Have we forgotten why they're useful?
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The Programmer’s Guide to a Sane Workweek
This post used to contain an early version of the introduction to my previous book, The Programmer’s Guide to a Sane Workweek. I’m now working on an updated iteration.
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Old Geek
I’m one. We’re not exactly common on the ground; my profession, apparently not content with having excluded a whole gender, is mostly doing without the services of a couple of generations.
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To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of [detainee]
You may or may not know that the incidence and relapse rates of schizophrenia in African-Caribbean males in Western countries has been…
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Welcome to Rands Leadership Slack
For a role as crucial as leadership, there is a shocking lack of required training on the topic. Combined with a tremendous collection of impenetrable literatur
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How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation
So you know the first 6 rules. You’ve maneuvered through the initial offer conversation, you’ve lined up counteroffers from other companies, and now it’s time to move into the actual negotiating. N...
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Startup employees don't earn more
We estimate typical startup salaries and equity compensation, and find early-employees don't earn more than large company employees.
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Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work
After years of working from coffee shops and couches, there's one thing I'm certain of: working remotely is hard. Incredibly hard. On paper, it sounds all rainbows and unicorns—you get to choose your own hours, you don't need to deal with a boss looming over your shoulder, and you can...
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People are still bad at gauging their own interview performance
Why are people so bad at gauging their own interviewing performance? We investigated and dig into the data to see what we can learn.
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Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer”
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We’re in the Middle of a Data Engineering Talent Shortage
Stay up-to-date with the latest news, practical tips & best practices from Qlik on data analytics, data integration, data literacy, and big data analytics.
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A Survival Guide to a PhD
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Who's on call?
Implementation of an on-call policy requires answering precisely these questions: who is responsible for on-call duties for an application/service, and how is that responsibility defined? More succinctly, who owns on-call?
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Employee #1: Amazon
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