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What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population
In this notebook we'll compare the median annual income of software engineers to the average annual income (GDP per Capita) in 50 countries.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,087 posts.
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Tests Are Overhyped
Let me lead off by saying that I don’t think tests are bad. I really don’t. But here’s the thing: I don’t care what your test-code ratios are. You know what the best test-code ratio is? Whatever you need to make sure your crap works while still getting product out the door.
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Running a software team at Google
I'm often asked what my job is like at Google since I left academia. I guess going from tenured professor to software engineer sounds like ...
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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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Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant
Micropayment-powered stories
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Hey programmers, we need to talk
This article is now in Russian! Hey guys. Thanks for coming to this meeting on such short notice. There’s coffee in the back. Did somebody spot the token recruiter yet? And show him the door?…
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What the interns have wrought, 2023 edition
We’re once again at the end of our internship season, and it’s my task to provide a few highlights of what the dev interns accomplished while they were here.
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Grokking big unfamiliar codebases
A blog about game engines, graphics, C++, and more.
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The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"
One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's two things*."
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Dear “Dear GitHub”
Dear “Dear GitHub”, Thanks for your recent open letter about GitHub’s shortcomings. As an occasional contributor to Chef, a large open source project itself , I completely empathize with your position. It totally sucks, for example, when an issue is DoSsed with a wall of unhelpful +1’s, especially by people who think…
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One-on-ones with executives
Often when an organization is going through some turmoil, executives think to themselves, “Ah, I should have some one-on-ones with the team so they can hear how we’re handling this.” On the other side, I frequently hear from folks who get nervous when they get these meeting invites, “The CEO/CTO/CPO/etc just scheduled…
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Why Is Your Team Falling Behind? Ask ‘The Penny Game’
Use the Penny Game to explore the difference between capacity and output, and why backlogs invariably grow, no matter how hard you work.
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Washed Up
Even if every technology jockeying for a spot under the 'web3' banner evolves beyond proof-of-work blockchains, these systems will still not be part of the web because they designed not to be. 'web3' ain't the web, and VCs talking their own book don't get the last word, no matter how much dirty money they throw at it.
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Human Bottlenecks
Why AI won't augment human capabilities much.
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Developer Income Report #5 (Gave up a day job)
It is high time for my another income report. I used to write my total developer income reports (last one “Gave up a day job! Now what? – Income report #3”) and last month I have summed…
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My Heroku values (2015)
Some of my favorite practices and ideas from almost four years at Heroku.
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The Art and Science of Leading Projects
Explore free project management resources from TeamGantt, including practical guides, templates, tools, videos, podcasts, and construction resources.
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Questions you'd be crazy not to ask at the start of your next project
Download Blank Inception Deck Online course Udemy One area most agile methods are completely silent on is project chartering. Below is a lightweight you can use to fill this gap and get your projec…
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Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte
Ethan Marcotte's book, "You Deserve a Tech Union," provides a mix of practical guidelines and steps that tech workers can take to form a union.
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Wrapping Up 2021. Leaving C++
2021 was not too kind to me. I discovered that I not only have OCD but OCPD, a personality disorder. If you’ve ever had a conversation with me where I just couldn’t let something go because it was wrong or incorrect and it bothered me, now you know why. I have, for better or worse, extremely high standards for…