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Most people don’t finish online job applications
A recent audit of the Fortune 500 showed that job application flow has improved, but there are still too many steps involved in getting applicants to the finish line.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
Today, a change to our Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail for users with status code 530
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Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
With Gitea reaching 6 years old, it is time to reflect on the past, and to look forward to the future. With over 14k+ commits, 1k+ contributors, 40+ maintainers, and 300M+ Docker Hub pulls, Gitea has come a long way.
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How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale
Faire’s engineering team grew from five to over 100 engineers in three years. Throughout this growth, we were able to sustain our pace of engineering execution by adhering to four guiding principles.
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I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites (2018)
A test that hijacked the Chrome back button to send visitors to a fake Google results page, then to mirrored competitor pages where heatmaps, sessions and typing were recorded. Google de-indexed the whole domain.
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Salary Transparency
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra
We are excited to announce the launch of Windows Dev Kit 2023, which is built to help developers create Windows apps easily and efficiently for Arm. We u nveiled this device as “Project Volterra” at Build in May 2022. Learn more .
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When is short tenure a red flag?
A pattern of short tenure – multiple short jobs over a small period of time – can be a red flag, but necessarily. I’ll dig into short tenure in this article. What’s “short”? What’s a “pattern”? When you’re thinking of switching jobs, when and how should your tenure factor into the decision? For hiring managers, when…
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Product Market Fit
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
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Pocket Casts goes open source
Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, and since we’ve been tapping away trying to make the best podcast client for people who love listening to podcasts. And! The team has been working really…
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Leaving the Cloud
Cloud services have been used by tech companies for many years, but it’s not the only way. Hear why 37signals is making the decision to go in another direction.
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Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have no other choice but to delete the websites I developed for learning Java, PHP, C#, Scala, HTML, Linux etc.
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Leveraging mispriced AWS spot instances
AWS creates a market for spot instance pricing, but this market is inefficient as customers don’t consider all instance types available. Leveraging this mispricing can save even more than spot pricing already does.
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Engineers should do customer support and success
The best PLG founders, startups, strategies, metrics and community. Every week.
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NimConf 2022 – Nim Online Conference
NimConf 2022 will take place on October 22nd.
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Building the Future of TensorFlow
The TensorFlow roadmap for 2023 and beyond
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Battle with bots prompts purge of Amazon, Apple employee accounts on LinkedIn
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in…
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Open core companies are not incentivized to make their projects good
Clear upgrades, incidents, CVEs, and tickets with infra agents grounded in production. They run in your environment, and every change lands as a PR you review.
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Accounting for developers part III – building a lending marketplace
In this final part of our Accounting for Developers series, we explore the ins and outs of building a ledger to power a lending marketplace product.
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Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
Instead of checking the open source code, Google makes assumptions about our use of contacts in the Voys App, with dire consequences.
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Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source
We are overjoyed and proud to announce that the Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source! We’ve been eager to take this step since we joined Automattic last year — after all, the company’…
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We are still early with the cloud
Software development still has a long way to go until it fully embraces the cloud
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The smash and grab of Kroger-Albertsons
The Kroger-Albertsons supermarket deal is uglier than you might expect. The "special cash division" of $4 billion may be intended to get around antitrust enforcers.