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Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?
This is quite a popular cartoon. I posted this in a comment on why programmers wear headphones a...
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
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Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
Brian Donohue | Pinterest engineering manager, Product Engineering
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An API Journey: From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way
The whole API lifecycle should go agile in order to stay relevant. But, this is made difficult because new Service-Based Architecture makes dependencies skyrocket! It’s time to think of a new way to
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Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers
Bryan Helmig, CTO and Co-founder of Zapier, is working with a 100% remote development team since the very beginning of company’s growth. In his interview, Bryan shares his best practices of hiring software engineers he's never met before and working with remote developers distributed all over the world.
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Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
Now, that’s not because most Stack Overflow contributors are hostile jerks. The majority of them are generous and kind. Sure, a few are… just generous, I guess? But our active users regularly express their frustration that we haven’t done more to make outsiders feel more welcome. The real problem isn’t the community …
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
July 2009 One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they're on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more. There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule. The manager's schedule is for bosses. It's embodied in the traditional…
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Strange and maddening rules
There’s this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work.
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Blind since birth, writing code at Amazon since 2013
Michael Forzano said he has a good “mental map of the structure of the code,” which allows him to help colleagues and provide unique feedback to his team.
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You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI
The Domino Data Lab blog is home to all things data science and machine learning, with information and resources tailored to data science professionals.
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Proposed NYC legislation would give employees right to ignore after-work email
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A Taxonomy of Technical Debt
Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL . I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the past years, but one focus has been consistent: I’m obsessed with tech debt. I…
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Productivity
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets...
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Do What You Love and Starve? (2006)
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