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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,748 posts.
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Nobody is coming to save your career
I waited years for someone to invest in my career. Nobody came.
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What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)
Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so popular in 2025
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How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General
Whenever I write about a topic that upsets me, I calm myself by illustrating it with royalty-free, reassuring stock photos. "People are...
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No is a complete sentence
Has someone asked you to do something recently that you know you don’t have time to do but felt like you needed to do anyway? Or has someone tried to get you to help with something and impres…
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Coders Who Don't Job Interview: Zed Shaw
I wrote a piece about the current state of job recruiting from a coder looking for work . I wondered:
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Making universities obsolete
Sebastian Thrun recently announced that he was leaving Stanford to found a free, online university called Udacity . This is based on his ...
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Company, Team, Self
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This company/team/self framework proved itself a helpful decision-making tool, and almost always led to the…
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What to care about in a job
In 2014, I wrote about how I chose my first job out of college. I’ve learned a lot in the 4 years since then—here’s how I would change my criteria if I were picking a job today.
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The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees
Legal Fees: Not a Hill to Die On, But Some Parity Would be Nice
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How to avoid being a secretary for engineers (2018)
If we just see our task as documenting solutions that engineers have solved, it removes the creativity and critical thinking dimension from tech comm. The creative dimension in tech comm comes into play as we identify and solve tech comm challenges, such as devising ways to simplify complexity or otherwise improve the…
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Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016)
Hello, world.
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Think of Pavlov
almost all interactions are repeat games
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Questions to ask when you think need to finish something
When a pursuit becomes a drag, here's some questions to help you figure out why, and what to do about it.
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Why I Left the .NET Framework
The .NET Framework was good. Really good. Until it wasn’t. Why did I leave .NET? In short, it constrained our ability to choose (which is a huge deal for
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How (not) to apply for a software job
Advice for how to (and how not to) apply for a software engineering job, particularly for the written parts of the interview process. As a bonus, some tips for your resume/CV.
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Another Theory to Explain 10X Programmers
a blog post by @azwinkau