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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 262 posts.
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Permission to Fail
Startups are not easy, it's a rollercoast of small triumps and losses, and emotional highs and lows, learn the valuable lesson of accepting failure.
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Do the math on your stock options
Things you should know about stock options before negotiating an offer
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Conceptual Debt Is Worse Than Technical Debt
Definition. The consequences of making bad design choices when choosing concepts to model your product around. A conceptual or mental model…
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A better way to teach technical skills to a group
Thank for you sharing this method – it sounds great, and I’m keeping it mind for the next time I have to do some teaching like this (which doesn’t come up so often for me).
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My Complicated Relationship with No Longer Being CEO
It's been 22 months since I stepped down as the CEO of Moz and turned over the role to my longtime Chief Operating Officer and close friend, Sarah Bird.
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How to hire the best people you've ever worked with (2007)
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
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Things I wish I knew earlier about Machine Learning
I’ve been working with Machine Learning models both in academic and industrial settings for a few years now. I’ve recently been watching the excellent Scalable ML from Mikio Braun, this…
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Everything I Needed to Know About Good UX I Learned While Working in Restaurants
Good UX has great customer service at its base. Restaurants provide many instructive examples for designers.
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Why Are Projects Always Behind Schedule?
Possibly because your boss is an idiot.
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Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (2010)
Apparently I’ve earned the dubious distinction of having become an expert in project failure. I’ve always had an interest in project failure—Jenny and I have been doing our “Why Projects Fa…
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Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation
There's a meme that's been going around for a while now: you should join a startup because the money is better and the work is more technically interesting. Paul Graham says that the best way to make money is to "start or join a startup", which has been "a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years", and that you…
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My positive experience as a woman in tech
Women speaking up about the sexism they have experienced in tech is great for raising awareness about the issues. However, when no positive stories get out, the overall picture painted is bleak, which could scare even more women away .
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How I Interview
Technical interviews are terrible because we don’t know what we’re filtering for.
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Introducing Buffer's Salary Calculator & New Salary Formula
We’re sharing a new version of Buffer's transparent salary formula, and a web app that anyone can use to find out what you might make on the team at Buffer.
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Market Rate is for Lobsters
Ernie Miller is a values-driven engineering leader, conference speaker, and lover of people based in Naples, Florida.
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What I Learned From Blowing An Interview
Some time ago, I was a development manager with 23 reports spread over four teams.