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How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows
I know a change is going to come If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing R…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 290 posts.
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All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders
As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He…
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Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
Now, that’s not because most Stack Overflow contributors are hostile jerks. The majority of them are generous and kind. Sure, a few are… just generous, I guess? But our active users regularly express their frustration that we haven’t done more to make outsiders feel more welcome. The real problem isn’t the community …
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
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Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself
As the solo founder of browserless; I wanted to paint a picture of what's like to start an indie business as a tech company.
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The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard
Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd. It’s a community for people who make things by hand: In that time I’ve: Talked to zero potential …
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The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
Kubernetes releases a new version every three months. We discuss where this pace comes from, why it's key to Kubernetes' success, and what it means for end-users.
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Software development requires servant leaders
The idea of “servant” leaders has been on the rise in the agile community of late. Robert K. Greenleaf coined the term in a 1970 essay, but the idea is timeless.
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Why Aren't There C Conferences?
Most widely-used programming languages have at least one regular conference dedicated to discussing it. Heck, even Lisp has one . It’s a place to talk about the latest developments of the language, recent and upcoming standards, and so on. However, C is a notable exception. Despite its role as the foundation of the…
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The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)
technology as if people mattered
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Slack is the opposite of organizational memory
The internet is not a dumptruck and neither am I
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I Write Letters to CEOs
I write letters to CEOs and many of them write me back. Here are some of the responses that I’ve received and the lessons that I’ve learned.
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What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
Productivity inspiration and tactical advice that's actually useful.
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How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
This issue was publicly disclosed on the Homebrew blog at https://brew.sh/2018/08/05/security-incident-disclosure/
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I Got Catfished by a Candidate
What follows is a true story. Names, places, and companies have been changed to protect the innocent (or not so innocent). I was catfished by a candidate. And not just during a phone screen. This g…
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I Quit My Job to Live on Donations to Zig
I am fortunate to be one of those people who started tinkering with code in their teens, and then found themselves in the position where their hobby could not only pay rent, but afford a comfortable standard of living, even in New York City.