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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 363 posts.
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Ways to get motivated when you don’t feel like working
Every week I write up to three new articles like this one. And every week I struggle to find the motivation to get started on each article. On Sunday night I make my to do list for the week ahead, and think about how quickly I'll get to work on this week's articles. But by Monday morning I'm struggling...
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Employee 1: Yahoo
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews
We built software to mask gender in technical engineering interviews. See what we learned and why it matters.
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My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project
Akurat79 Pilihan utama para master dan player profesional! menghadirkan kejutan bonus spesial dan peluang hadiah melimpah.
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10-Year Exercise Periods Make Sense
Scott Kupor at Andreessen Horowitz has a post today on some potential downsides of 10-year exercise periods for startup employees’ stock options. I’d recommend reading the whole thing for context here, but to summarize: * He argues that allowing employees who leave a company to keep their optio...
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The Lack of Options for Startup Employees’ Options
One of the many tradeoffs that early startup employees choose to make is between cash, and options. For some employees however this may end up being a Faustian bargain of sorts. At first glance, the calculus seems simple: the employee will take more stock options for less cash, because over time the payoff could be...
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No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities
Content note for discussion of abuse and sexual violence. In the last couple of weeks, three respected members of the computer security and privacy tech communities have come forward under their ow…
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How to Pick Your Battles on a Software Team
Everyone knows they should pick their battles, but how do you decide when? Here are 3 questions for figuring out when to push back and when to let it be.
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“But he does good work.”
Right now, my inbox holds media requests from Buzzfeed, Daily Dot, Guardian, Associated Press, and newly, La Repubblica, Italy’s largest…
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The limited value of a computer science education
I started programming at the age of 10 on my TI-82 graphing calculator. I loved video games as ...
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One Year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow
One day in January 2013 I found myself wasting time on the internet.
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Stop saying learning to code is easy
(The photo above was taken at the Microsoft NYC office of three amazing young ...
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A brief update
Over the last couple years, I’ve seen more and more people in technology trying to make government work better. They’re idealists who are also making a large impact. These are people th…
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Buffer Layoffs
Some tough news: Buffer has made 10 layoffs, 11% of the team. We want to share openly how we got here, the financial details and how we’re moving forward.
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People suck at technical interviews (2014)
Most technical interviews test the wrong things: memorized syntax, whiteboard coding, brand-name employers. Instead, hire for learning ability, intellectual honesty, clear communication, and basic decency. "Team fit" is bias in disguise. Homogeneity means you're hiring wrong. Good hiring is hard and slow, but worth it.
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Too Many Knobs
Xu2015 Tianyin Xu, Long Jin, Xuepeng Fan, Yuanyuan Zhou, Shankar Pasupathy, and Rukma Talwadker: " Hey, you have given me too many knobs!: understanding and dealing with over-designed configuration in system software ". Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering …
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Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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All the best advice we could find on how to get a job
We've read a lot of job-hunting advice. Most of it is useless. Here's what we've found actually works — starting with why job boards are a last resort.
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Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great
After a particularly rough couple of months last year, our team (of six) decided it was time for a radical move. At the point we were so downtrodden that our small hope that it would at least provide something new was enough of a motivation for us to decide on a two month experiment: we would try mob programming.
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The Art of Closing
How to close patches for your open source project you don't want.
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Nick Farr's 30c3 Jake Appelbaum story of abuse and harassment
Hi. I’m Nick Farr. (@nickf4rr) You can read what you probably came here for at archive.org But if you’ll allow me first: Bringing people together is my life’s work. The text that was originally …
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Tor Project Statement on Jacob Appelbaum
Over the past several days, a number of people have made serious, public allegations of sexual...