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Fire your bad customers
Know when it's time to break up with your customers.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,087 posts.
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What is a Product Roadmap?
and how do you use it?
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How to Hire Great Engineers
Opinionated and highly efficient way to hire great software engineers
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Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
One of our favorite anecdotes that illustrates just how hard it is to get people to read the docs comes from an unexpected source: Van Halen. The...
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It’s easier to manage four people than one person
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker
Remote work is sold as a win for workers. But it also makes you easier to outsource, reduces your job to a metric, and can stall your career growth.
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Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?
Thousands of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers are less than thrilled about their hands-on, foundational skills. Here’s a look at a recent survey that identified some of the bigger skills gaps, and some thoughts about how…
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To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)
This is a story of how a software company was able to start a conversation with 8x more of their users by cutting the length of their emails by 90%. You could set up a test of this method in less than an hour. The Problem One of the most
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Consider getting a “DIY” degree online instead of a traditional CS major
As universities are switching to 100% remote teaching in the coming semester, many undergraduate students should strongly consider getting a “DIY” CS degree: take the same courses you would at your own school, but on any one of the online Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms, like Coursera or edX. Advantages…
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Design Docs at Google
One of the key elements of Google's software engineering culture is the use of design docs for defining software designs. These are...
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It's Time to Start Writing (2019)
A blog by Alex Nixon on programming and software
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Invert, always, invert
man muss immer umkehren - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
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‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That Well
Why ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ isn't as great a thinking tool as you might think.
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Why OKRs might not work at your company
A partnership dedicated to teaching best practices to product teams and product leaders
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Why are CEOs failing software engineers?
Software engineering, the creative nature of the work
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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
The design of "technical interviews" is hurting the tech sector.
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Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
Do you actually use data structures and algorithms on your day to day job? I've noticed a growing trend of people assuming algorithms are pointless questions that are asked by tech companies purely as an arbitrary measure. I hear more people complain about how all of this is a
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How to write technical posts so people will read them (2019)
One of today’s best bloggers in the functional programming space is Chris Penner . Despite this, Chris is criminally underrated—nobody I talk to seems to know of his work. Go check him out as soon as you finish reading this post!
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You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions: lines of code = effort lines of code = value all lines of c...
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A Steve Jobs masterclass from a decade ago
A decade ago, Steve Jobs sat down at the D8 conference for an interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. What followed was a masterclass in both company and product management. The whole interview is worth watching, but I thought there were a few segments that stood out. Caveat: Any time someone talks about a…