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Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line employees
Eligible hourly employees have access to prepaid college tuition, GED and high school diplomas, language programs and industry certifications.
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Ok, so you can’t decide
Even if you've checked your work, asked for all the help, and are moving gingerly, there will be decisions where you can't decide. You've considered and reconsi
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Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable (2005)
Project plans that are reviewed, approved, and then filed away are useless, especially when these are unaccompanied by ongoing updates. Worst yet, when such plans are developed by a lone expert, the process of creating the plan fails to accomplish the true value of the planning process--to engage stakeholders in…
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Has Agile Become Addiction to Instant Gratification?
“Agile” in software engineering has become the de-facto mode of operation for quite some time now. If what Bill Gates said is true, that…
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Rejected internal job applicants are twice as likely to quit
Internal job applicants who face rejection are nearly twice as likely to leave their organizations than those who were either hired for an internal job or had not applied for a new job at all, ILR School research finds.
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Operations is not Developer IT
My code doesn't compile. Why? The number of times in my career I have been asked a variation on "why doesn't my application work" is shocking. When you meet up with Operations people for drinks, you'll hear endless variations on it. Application teams attempting to assign ownership
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I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
I've learnt I don't need to keep up with the hectic pace of Front End development news.
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Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
I finally escaped from (grad) school in 2019, spent two months interning as an assistant trader at FTX, and have since spent the last two years working as a data scientist, with the bulk of that time at Microsoft and the last two months at Anthropic. Not gonna lie — my time as a data scientist has been pretty awesome…
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The goal of standards is to improve our future actions
A common failure mode is to consistently set your standards for yourself too high, and to always feel guilty for falling short. I diagnose why I think this is a major problem, and outline some of my tools for overcoming this
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The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
In tech, switching jobs almost always comes with either a financial or a title upside. However, it doesn’t always come with both. Switching for higher compensation can result in a “lower” title, like going from Senior Software Engineer to SWE 2 or VP Engineering to Senior Engineering Manager. This
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The art of not taking things personally
Why other people’s emotions might not be about you — and your emotions might not be about them
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Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer
This post was inspired by a comment on HackerNews that I am not able to find anymore. The gist of it was “While architecture is often over-engineered, code i...
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Software Development Waste
I've looked back at the end of every software project I've ever been on and thought, "If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have been done in half the time." Despite this, I've never thought carefully about exactly where all the time went and why so much of it felt wasted.
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What I'm Up to Now
a short post
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Work Hard (2007)
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced … the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously… this feeling may last for hours at a tim…
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Burning out and quitting
I'm burnt out. If you're reading this, there's a strong chance you're burnt out too. We're about to have, uh, a moment, so brace yourself.
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Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time
Haiku, Inc. is proud to announce that we have hired existing contributor waddlesplash to work on general Haiku improvement full-time. The contract was signed on Monday, August 23, 2021 and waddlesplash plans to start work tomorrow. In the past Haiku, …
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How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019)
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”―Marshall Rosenberg, As a founder, my biggest regrets revolve around not having difficu…
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Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations
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Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of any ransom…
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Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run.
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