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Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus named interim Co-CEOs. Holthaus also appointed to the newly created position of CEO of Intel Products. Frank Yeary named interim executive chair.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 41 posts.
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Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. Here's the email he sent to all employees.
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Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
Will Larson, a veteran engineering leader and the CTO at Carta, holds three conventional engineering management “anti-patterns” up to the light for a closer look.
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Francois Chollet is leaving Google
Today, we're announcing that Francois Chollet, the creator of Keras and a leading figure in the AI world, is embarking on a new chapter in his career outside of Google.
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macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
macOS 15.2 was released a few days ago, with a surprise. A terrible, awful surprise.
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Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)
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Accident Forgiveness
Charging for resources you didn't mean to buy is bad business.
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OKRs Are Bullshit
It's a new year, time for a new rant! And yes, before you ask, the post title is deliberately provocative. You might say this is my ploy to get more paid subscribers, because only paid subscribers can leave comments and I expect that the title alone will make many of you want to comment. 😝
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A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018)
Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL . I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the past years, but one focus has been consistent: I’m obsessed with tech debt. I…
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Student rocket group shatters amateur space record
Aftershock II is believed to be the world’s first civilian-built rocket to reach an altitude of 470,000 feet.
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Arvind has died
Arvind, a longtime MIT professor and leading scholar in computer architecture and programming languages, has died at 77. He transformed research in computer architectures and parallel computing, enabling faster and more efficient computation.
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A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)
Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.
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The magic of small engineering teams
Creating a startup of small teams can help you ship stupidly fast.
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Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
We had interviewees use ChatGPT without their interviewer knowing. Here's what happened.
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Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.
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Scrum Sucks
Breaking news: Scrum is bad.
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Why Triplebyte Failed
How a once-successful, well-liked company failed, as told from within.
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Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance (2017)
Organizations tend to drift towards danger and normalize deviations from procedure.
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Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense
Discover how Greptile, an AI-powered code review startup, implements the Fortress Method to balance event-driven and long-running engineering tasks, maximizing productivity in a small team.
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I'm giving up on open source
Sustainable open source will stay a dream
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How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan
Curious about living in Japan? Learn from Christian, one of the first digital nomad visa holders, as he shares his experience and tips for obtaining the visa.
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Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
Interviews should be as close as possible to the work that the candidate would do if they join. While that seems like a pretty tautological statement, it is unfortunately not always true. When interviewing as a software engineer, for example, you’ll run into places that lean heavily on algorithms interviews. And don’t…
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Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)
Operational simplicity in aodrqew, balancing stability and agility to enhance reliability, reduce complexity, and focus on impactful innovation.
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How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a…
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Bossware is a big legal risk
Monitoring employees in the name of productivity or security can cause a lot more problems than it solves.
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Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
Why don’t tech companies pay engineers more to stay? The top companies for engineers are transparent and they pay attention to an engineer's salary. Ethena
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We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
Cinder is part of a growing list of US-based tech companies that encounter engineering applicants who are actually suspected North Korean nationals. Here's what we're doing about it.
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OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board
Nakasone brings cybersecurity experience to growing Board of Directors; will join the Board’s Safety and Security Committee