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What I Learned Selling a Software Business
Some lessons learned in selling a bootstrapped software business. Relevant to buyers or sellers.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,086 posts.
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Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
I spend a lot of time negotiating this in the software world: And if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because: 1. people aren't talking to people 2. people aren't listening So lots of designers and product people have leapt onto 1, basically trying to
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Root for your friends
Heads‑up: The concept of this post might seem trivial, but it can improve your career, happiness, and the people you care about. Proceed without caution. It only takes about 10 minutes to read.
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Habits of High-Functioning Teams
I often struggle to explain what it means to be part of a high-functioning software team. Sure, there are mountains of literature, and an entire genre of LinkedIn thought leadership that professes all kinds of guidelines and heuristics about what makes teams work, but in my experience, it’s hard to internalize these…
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A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure
. Not the kind of log I meant.
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DevOps is broken
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
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The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown
Zarar Siddiqi: engineering leader and consultant in Toronto. Building products with care, and helping teams do the same with AI in the loop.
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Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage
Jeff Bezos's six-page memos are legendary in the startup world for good reason: clear writing and clear thinking go hand in hand.
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To be great, be good repeatably
A thought piece on what it takes to truly be great and what that even means in the first place.
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
I love bug squash interviews.
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What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?
To make sense of all the contradictory info on Google & Facebook hiring freezes, we surveyed hundreds of engineers who are interviewing there right now.
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Take a break
I need to hit the emergency break.
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What it was like working for Gitlab
I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years.
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Facebook senior software engineer interview
I have been working at Facebook as a software engineer for a while now. During this time, I have got different inquiries from friends and…
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Why brilliant people lose their touch
It hasn’t been a great couple of years for Neil Woodford — and it has been just as miserable for the people who have entrusted money to his investment funds. Mr Woodford was probably the most celeb…
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Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech
A few months ago, I left SeatGeek without much of a plan of what to do next. My green card was finally issued in 2021, which means that I didn’t have to scramble to find a new job in forty days. Fo...
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“What if it changes?”
How and why to use the second most powerful question known to software development
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I paid people to try and follow my README
Developers suck at writing documentation. We like to say RTFM but often there ain't no FM to R. At best we have a half-arsed collection of notes, some obsolete tips, and a link to a desolate forum full of people asking the same questions again and again. That's no way to treat our users. I naïvely believe there's a…
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How I got a medal from the Army for writing code
In 2005 my National Guard unit was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. My MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) in the Army was 92A, which is basically a logistics and supplies...
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How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours
NOTE: This post was originally written after JetBrains announced a controversial new licensing model. Many people spoke out about it. The ...
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Give away your code, but never your time
As software developers, I think we can agree that open-source 1 code has transformed the world . Its public nature tears down the walls that prevent some pieces of software from becoming the best they can be. The problem is that too many valuable projects stagnate, with burned-out leaders: