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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 437 posts.
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Good data scientist, bad data scientist
What separates a good Data Scientist from a bad one?
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Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy
Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that helps teams wait less and ship more, without losing out on feedback.
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Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021
The entire plot is generated by an R script that you can found here. Any suggestions (you can find my e-mail address on the "about" page) are welcome. There's a secondary plot here that displays the raw number of postings (total and remote). Caveats, and why this is just an …
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Reflecting on Four Years at Databricks
Today marks my 4th year anniversary at my current employer, Databricks. It's been a good run, and this is a great chance to reflect on the journey so far. This post is as much for me to organize my own thoughts as it is for anyone else to read.
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Things you are allowed to do, academic edition
Since it’s application season again, I thought that I would share some things that you are ‘allowed’ to do in academia but may not be aware of. This post is inspired by Milan Cvitkovic’s post on ‘Things you’re allowed to do’ and Veronika Cheplygina’s posts on advice for Ph.D. students, in particular her post ‘7 things…
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Choose Exciting Technology
There is a popular movement on Choosing Boring Technology started by article by Dan McKinley, followed by some discussions on Hacker News…
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Facebook Recruiter Correspondence
A brief exchange with a Facebook recruiter in the summer of 2020
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What Happened to Treehouse?
In September 2021, online coding school Treehouse laid off close to 90% of its staff without severance pay.
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Busting the 10x software engineer myth
Leaders often feel proud of their high performers. In reality, having “10x engineers“ in your software organization may be a sign of an organization that is set out to fail in the long run.
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The greatest resume I've ever seen
He had zero cloud experience ... or did he?
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There is no “us” in team
I’ve talked before about the non-team team dynamic that is “one person per task”. Where the management and engineers collude to push the organisation beyond a sustainable pace by making sure that at all times, each individual is kept busy and collaboration is minimised. I talked about the deleterious effect on…
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How to write cold emails to investors
Want to get your cold email to investors opened and read? Learn from the tips of some of the top VC investors.
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Saying the Difficult Things
During the summer last year, I was doing my annual big hike with a friend. We use these hikes to see more of the country, and inevitably the conversations end up covering every topic under the sun. That day, we’d been talking about communication. In the evening, tucked away in a little cabin near Glencoe, something…
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Building Remote Teams for Startups
Most of the companies in the last year had to try out remote work in one way or the other. These are my highly notes on #remote #teams.
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Quitting your dream job twice
Quitting is never easy. Building things can be. I'm leaving TTFM Labs to start a company.
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Leaving Debian
Today's story is an insider view of Debian. One of the oldest Linux distributions and probably one of the longest-running volunteer-based open-source projects. Joey Hess is my guest, and he dedicated significant parts of his adult life to working on Debian. He's going to share what that was like. The good and the bad…
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I Failed to Transform the Enterprise
how management power plays win out over measurable profit increases, risk mitigations and years of track record
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Is management pressuring you to deliver unfinished code? (2020)
Case study of flawed conception due to requirements synthesis (slide 1 of 2)
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Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer
This post was inspired by a comment on HackerNews that I am not able to find anymore. The gist of it was “While architecture is often over-engineered, code i...
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Dealing with the Evasive Witness
In this Lawyer Minds contributor piece, Phillip Miller discusses deposition strategies and non-cooperative witnesses. Learn more here.
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Things I Didn't Learn in 2020
It was a weird year.
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Developer, you may need a co-founder in marketing
Uku Täht is a co-founder of a simple web analytics tool Plausible. It’s bootstrapped, open-source, and currently making $360,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).
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Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore
Sure, we all pretend to know them, but rarely do we think they apply to us. Your manager certainly doesn't...
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Software projects need heroes? lessons learned from 1100 projects
Reviewed by Greg Wilson / 2021-09-10 Keywords: Code Ownership , Software Projects
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Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next
While the number of job opportunities for software developer skyrockets together with salaries all around the world, fresh grads and junior developers struggle to even get invited for the interviews. Why does it happen and can we do anything about it?