Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,339 posts.
I will freely admit, I’ve been avoiding writing this article. In fact, as I type this, I’m still not sure that it’s something that I want to do. However, again, I come back to that damn promise I made when I started this whole thing about being open and honest. Curse me and my big mouth! I also stated just over a week…
At our company-wide get together last December we decided that 2008 was going to be a year of workplace experiments. Among other things, we discussed how we could make 37signals one of the best places in the world to work, learn, and generally be happy. Here’s are a few of the things we…
Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries with essential commerce infrastructure. Our engineers and developers work on challenging and impactful projects spanning frontend, backend, mobile and data.
Explore the latest technologies and innovations on the architecture engineered for agility
A behind the scenes look at engineering crits at Figma.
Technical literacy is key to career success, even for non-engineers. Learn how to master the tools of your trade and build a solid tech foundation.
A guiding framework for how EMs + PMs should partner together.
Today is the start of my last week as an employee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I will be leaving after nearly 15 years as EFF's President and Executive Director, having started as a Staff Attorney back in 1992. As I wrap up things here, I've been thinking a lot about where we've been...
Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog . My job was to port a security critical network processing…
In our continuing effort to allow awesome developers to demonstrate their …awesomeness… we’ve added the ability to include your GitHub projects on your Careers 2.0 profile.
Today, the Associated Press reports that some employers are asking applicants for their Facebook usernames and passwords. According to the article:
Good UX has great customer service at its base. Restaurants provide many instructive examples for designers.
All-in-one incident management software for modern teams. FireHydrant helps you plan, respond, and resolve faster with smart alerting, on-call scheduling, AI-powered workflows, and post-incident retros.
Great news! Dash for iOS is back on the App Store and completely free. Download the mobile documentation browser again.
We’d like to welcome the latest set of team members to OpenAI (and we’re still hiring!)
The latest information about the Unconference is now available at the Unconference wiki, which will be periodically updated with more information for attendees.
This paper from Zhu and Godfrey looks at single-statement bug fixes in Java code: more specifically, at the differences between how bug are fixed by the people who created them and how they are fixed by other people. The authors found that people fix their own bugs more quickly than other people's, which falls under…
Lodash creator John-David Dalton reflects on the project’s growth, the pressures of maintaining software used across the world, and the personal journey that led to stepping back and eventually rebuilding a sustainable path forward.
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Today we’re introducing Buffer’s Salary Formula 3.0 - a fresh, remote-first approach to our salaries. See the new formula, our salaries, and the calculator.
