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Some perspective on a destroyed career
Someone over on Hacker news posted a link to a comp.lang.lisp post that I wrote three years ago that's generating a lot of discussion. I f...
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Farewell From Shari Steele
Today is the start of my last week as an employee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I will be leaving after nearly 15 years as EFF's President and Executive Director, having started as a Staff Attorney back in 1992. As I wrap up things here, I've been thinking a lot about where we've been...
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Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?
There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories. “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative...
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Is the Job Market Dying?
how tech makes hiring worse
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What’s wrong with billable hours
I know a bunch of you already have your pitchforks out, so let me start out by establishing some goalposts for my premise. When I’m done, you may still want to skewer me, but at least it’ll be for the right reasons, if you do. Through the rest of the post, I’m going to draw...
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An Intern's Experience with Rust
Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog . My job was to port a security critical network processing…
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Wanna quit your job and become upwork freelancer? Do not do that
Almost every day I receive job offers on my 5 star odesk (upwork) profile . I do not search anything manually, clients contacting me directl...
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Why T-shaped people? (2018)
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The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About
Do you know about the dark side of software development? No one likes to talk about this subject, but you need to know about it...
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When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log over a resume any day.
In our continuing effort to allow awesome developers to demonstrate their …awesomeness… we’ve added the ability to include your GitHub projects on your Careers 2.0 profile.
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Demoted
Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen.
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Your Facebook password should be none of your boss' business
Today, the Associated Press reports that some employers are asking applicants for their Facebook usernames and passwords. According to the article:
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Employee Retention
When it comes to everything that's not building a great product and getting users, most founders think fundraising is going to be their biggest challenge. And it is, until they raise money, and...
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Everything I Needed to Know About Good UX I Learned While Working in Restaurants
Good UX has great customer service at its base. Restaurants provide many instructive examples for designers.
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How to Pay Remote Employees
Running a remote company in the US requires using terrible government websites and filling out onerous paperwork. Tortuga [https://www.tortugabackpacks.com] has seven US-based employees across four states. Four of those employees have moved between states while working for Tortuga. In total, we've registered with…
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It's not enough for a program to work – it has to work for the right reasons
Successful software is buggy software.
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What Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique
Four Things Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique Read the full post and more over on my personal blog at tannerc.com. Critique is an important part of any design process, whether …
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The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made
There was a time in my life when I played quite a bit of basketball. I was leading engineering at a start-up in Scottsdale, AZ, my wife was…
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Gamification, life, and the pursuit of a gold badge (2021)
Gamification works too well on me. I'll do anything for a high score, to complete a progress bar, or to unlock an achievement.
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How to sell your software for $20,000
I guess you can either sell $20 software to 10,000 people a year, or $20,000 software to one business a year that buys 10 seats, and either ...
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The Tyranny of ‘The Plan' (2013)
A long, close reading of Poppendieck's talk on how plans quietly become the thing we manage instead of the outcome, from the Empire State Building up.
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Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations
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Dash for iOS: Back on the App Store
Great news! Dash for iOS is back on the App Store and completely free. Download the mobile documentation browser again.