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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 320 posts.
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Did your boss thank you for coding yourself to death?
Why programmers shouldn't work themselves into the ground for the company, told through the story of a brilliant developer called John.
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TDD: tastes better without the T?
Writing tests turned me off the whole enterprise so much that eventually I decided I’d just write without them. And nothing awful happened! In fact, it was as much a breath of fresh air as I&…
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Bump
One of the nice things about this job is that I’m meeting lots of interesting startups who are doing mobile apps. My fave so far is Bump .
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Women in tech - Stop talking, start coding
I read Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley in the NYTimes today, which explores how and why women are under-repesented in tech startups. From the number of retweets I saw and the clicks through bit.l…
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Tips for Tech Leads
One of the unending sources of frustrations of being an experienced engineer in a company full of fresh graduates is having to deal with new...
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My First BillG Review
In the olden days, Excel had a very awkward programming language without a name. “Excel Macros,” we called it. It was a severely dysfunctional programming language without variables (yo…
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Life at Google
As I noted in the previous outing , I have the peculiar fortune of working for a company that’s also a tourist attraction; so I’ll do some tour-guiding while my eyes remain fresh.
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An Android Side Project
I want to be able to write apps for my phone in in something other than the Java language; for example Ruby or Python. This isn’t one of the things my group at Google has asked me to look at, but I think it’s worth doing and worth some of my time. I’m writing this today because I’m amused by the contrast with the…
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Mark Cuban: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers
An article by John Doerr had a great quote from technology luminary Alan Kay that every entrepreneur needs to remember “ The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ”
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