Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 242 posts.
An acquaintance of mine, let’s call him Mike, is looking for work after getting laid off from a contract role at Microsoft, which has happened to a lot of people I know. Like me, Mike has 11 years in industry. Unlike me, he doesn't know a lot of folks at trendy companies, so I passed his resume around to some…
If you’re a developer working for software company, does that company own what you do in your spare time?
is a geospatial, temporal, and linguistic analysis of recent tweets about U.S. presidential candidates. I used Pandas, TextBlob, and Cartopy. [source]
Big companies have a way of accidentally stepping on little companies sometimes. But every once in awhile, they leave us better off.
There’s always too much work to be done on software projects, too many features to implement, too many bugs to fix. Some days you’re just not going through the backlog fast enough, you’re not producing enough code, and it’s taking too long to fix a seemingly-impossible bug. And to make things worse you’re wasting time…
The programming community has been opening up over the past few years about mental health issues, so, I want to take this opportunity to open up about my...
(A true story.) Philip (President): Our factory is underutilized by 10%. Either we start building more of our backlog or we lay people off. I'd rather keep everyone busy, build inventory, and get...
I can't tell you how nice it is to have software in production on a boring stack. It gives you freedom to do other things.
The notion of a "senior" developer is extremely subjective. How can we define it better?
One of the most common pieces of advice you’ll get as a startup is this: Only hire the best. The quality of the people that work at your company will be one of the biggest factors in your success – or failure. I’ve heard this advice over and over
Framing our programming careers in terms of knowledge accumulation and decay can yield some interesting insights.
There is no book. There is only Idea Debt.
I’m one. We’re not exactly common on the ground; my profession, apparently not content with having excluded a whole gender, is mostly doing without the services of a couple of generations.
Over the last month I've had so many 'fails' from (mostly) large companies that my twitter timeline has started to read like failblog. Have we given up?
Joel Spolsky has a classic blog post on "Finding Great Developers" where he popularized the meme that great developers are impossible to find, a corollary of which is that if you can find someone, they're not great. Joel writes,
There has been more discussion recently on the concept of a “10x engineer”. 10x engineers are, (from Quora) “the top tier of engineers that are 10x more productive than the average” Productivity I have observed that some people are able to get 10 times more done than me. However, I’d argue that individual productivity…
