Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 399 posts.
Some time back, I was working on a project where it felt like the timebomb of technical debt was exploding in our faces. We couldn’t refactor the whoositz because of the whatsitz and when we asked about the whatsitz no one knew about the whatsitz and how it exactly worked with the whoositz and there certainly weren’t…
If you follow Gamefromscratch on Twitter, you may have already seen this tweet I put out last night about a blackmail demand that was made against our YouTube channel:First off, I really want to give a gigantic shout out to all of the people that helped get the message out, the tweets, retweets and even [...]
Ian Tien shared the hacks that helped Mattermost to build its messaging solution while being a fully remote company since day one.
My high-level workflow looks something like this: identify the problem to solve; think on the problem and let ideas percolate; research, discuss, and experiment with these ideas; implement and test the solution; deliver and maintain the solution.
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“What would you say if I asked you to design me a service capable of responding to thousands of user requests every second and latency was critical?”
My book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications , recently passed the milestone of 100,000 copies sold. Last year, it was the second-best-selling book in O’Reilly’s entire catalogue, second only to Aurélien Géron’s machine learning book . Machine learning is obviously a hot topic, so I am quite content with coming…
Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to start your argument with ‘everyone knows,’ but in this case, I think we ought to make an…
Most companies mistakenly apply value replication principles to discovery
By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering
Have you ever been curious about how Software engineering within SpaceX works? I did some research and compiled my notes in this article. There are also some…
I still don't have any idea what Instagram or Facebook stories is. Tried Googling and still don't have a good idea about it. — Murat Dem...
In 2001 I had just graduated from a small town high school and headed off to a small town college. I found myself in the quaint computer lab where the
My thoughts on coding, ego and attention. How I learned to get out of my own way by learning about this link between ego and attention.
UPDATE June 18, 2020 at 10:24 PM EST: I have made contact with a human at Apple after they reached to me via Resolution Center. We are working on solving the issues, and while I have not been told “yes, your account will not be terminated”, I believe in good faith we will work something out. Yes, the issue was my…
Have you ever had a long-overdue task — a task which isn’t so bad in itself — but which you can’t even bring yourself to think about?
A bit more than four years ago I started the xi-editor project. Now I have placed it on the back burner (though there is still some activity from the open source community). The original goal was to deliver a very high quality editing experience. To this end, the project spent a rather large number of “novelty…
One of the things that sucks most about technical interviews is that they’re a black box. How can we tackle that?
I’ve taken to using the word “energized” over “impactful.” “Impactful” feels company-centric, and while that’s important, “energized” is more inwards-looking. Finding energizing work is what has kept me at Stripe for so long, pursuing impactful work. - Michelle Bu We all have a finite amount of time to live, and…
Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.
More and more people are being exposed to working remotely. One of the key factors for success in a remote workplace is a culture of written communication.…
Best practices for code review when you’re the author.
In my day job I work as a consultant. Roughly six months ago my current client had a non-negotiable requirement that consultants are not all...
