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The school for sysadmins who can’t timesync good
(With apologies to Derek Zoolander and Justin Steven. And to whoever had to touch the HP-UX NTP setup at Queensland Police after I...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,087 posts.
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Bump
One of the nice things about this job is that I’m meeting lots of interesting startups who are doing mobile apps. My fave so far is Bump .
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Android Developer Income Report #10
Last month has been looking like some slow down in my income and traffic. Fortunately it was only temporary as it is getting better with each day now. Anyway I still made quite nice income and as u…
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Mistakes I made as a young entrepreneur
I started my first business eight years ago in 2004. I’ve managed teams as small as two (from our top bedroom), all the way to my current 54-person team at Treehouse. I’ve had some wins and plenty of losses and learned a lot of things the hard way. Hopefully other business owners can avoid these un-fun mistakes …
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Augmenting Agile with Formal Methods
I really like the c2 wiki as a historical artifact: a lot of big names in Agile and Extreme Programming argued with each other there.1 One thing they did was the Extreme Programming Challenge, where people tried to test the limits of these approaches. They’d find edge problems (designing databases, remote teams, etc)…
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Stone: Leonardo da Vinci's Resume
“An informed patriotism is what we want. Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? She is a shining city upon a hill.” - Ronald Reagan ~Largest Substack on the Right~. Click to read American Ambition, a Substack publication with…
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What Should You Work On?
David shares how to make the best choices of what to work on in your life. Read here.
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Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of enthusiast programmers is ending
Justin Searls on the looming demise of the 10x developer: Why an era of enthusiast programmers is coming to an end.
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Scrum has failed the developers
But there’s a way out of the misery
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Cargo Cult Agile (2008)
Back in the 40's, the story goes, American troops landed on a remote island. The natives of the island had never seen modern civilization before, and were amazed by the men and materials Allied forces brought by the island. They watched the troops set up an airstrip and a tower, don headphones, and call great metal…
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Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)
How are Rust, C++, and Python trending on Hacker News in the job market? As a proxy measure for programming language trends, let’s analyze the frequency of programming language mentions in the mont…
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My startup is broken
Whenever I advise (or join!) a startup, one of the first conversations goes something like this: "Oh man. Everything here is broken! It sucks! There's so much to do and not enough people to do it. We're missing so many things, we don't know where to start! The product needs so much work. Marketing needs
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On Really Trying (2009)
What are the true limits to motivation?
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Which job skills are most employable?
Like many others, we’ve promoted the idea of learning STEM skills. Is that the wrong advice?
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On Interviewing Programmers
I'll be looking for a new job soon, readers! And this has been cause for some reflection. In Emeryville, CA, there is an "international...
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Non-Creepy Networking: Party Etiquette
Note: This is Part 1 in a series of articles about non-creepy networking. There’s just too much to say to get it all out in one article. <p...
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Cognitive distortions that undermine clear thinking
Leaders are paid to think clearly. And a big impediment to clear thinking is what CBT/REBT calls Cognitive Distortions: errors in thinking or thinking traps we commonly fall for. Most high-performers are not pathological, but instead fall for them when upset or in high-stress situations. In this
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My first year in sales as technical founder
Looking back at the last 12 months feels surreal. I have learned so much about selling, it's insane.
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How becoming a pilot made me a better programmer
Two years ago I trained for my private pilot license over the course of nine months. Besides be...
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The Curse of Increasing Marginal Work Utility, or Why I Work So Much
Academics constantly complain about being overworked, yet they also praise their freedom to decide how and when to work as one of the great ...
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Where are you in your company's layoff list?
Where are you in your company's layoff list? Every company has one, even if it's just a vague idea in the mind of the CEO. By looking a...