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Mythical Man Month
a bliki entry for Mythical Man Month
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,857 posts.
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How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire
Wartime can be extremely demanding for Engineering Managers. But by ruthlessly focusing on delivery, building a resilient team, investing in individuals, and maintaining their own strength, an EM can lead their people to not just survive but thrive under pressure.
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Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust
ramblings by Adam Perry
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GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript.
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Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business
Wanting to offer an alternative to PayPal, we set up a Google Checkout account for people to buy our ebook.
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Was Google Earth Stolen?
[October, 2021]
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Lesser-known Web APIs
API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface which defines interactions between multiple software architecture layers. Programmers carry out…
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On Conference Speaking
I’ve seen quite a bit of the world thanks to being invited to speak at conferences. Since some people are under the impression that serial conference speakers possess some special talents, I’d like to demystify my process by walking you through my latest talk from start to finish.
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Fifty
So, it has finally happened. I just turned 50 and I can’t say it was something I was looking forward to. First the good news: today seems to be a day like any other so if you’re younger than I am, from the far side of the great divide, I’m happy to inform you that there is nothing that feels abruptly different. The…
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I fought my ISP's bad behavior and won
Just before black friday I was surfing some major retailers sites and on a whim wanted to see how they were using jav...
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Iconography of the PuTTY tools
In March 2025 I received an email asking about PuTTY’s “logo” – the icon used by the Windows executable. The sender wanted to know where it had come from, and how it had evolved over time.
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Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
A brand new era for the RWKV-v5 architecture and linear transformer's has arrived - with the strongest multi-lingual model in open source today
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Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died
Beloved professor conducted pioneering research on imbuing machines with human-like intelligence, including the ability to understand stories.
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Linux debugging tools you'll love
New zine: Linux debugging tools you'll love
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Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux
It's happening. It's the reason that a lot of us came to work for Microsoft, ...
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Tech compensation in 2021
Salaries in tech are going up, and many people are looking for new jobs or reevaluating the ones they have. However, many tech workers have no idea what their labor is worth on the open market. There’s a huge information asymmetry here: employers have access to detailed industry data on salaries, but workers don’t. In…
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What it's like to be cancelled
An honest look at what it looks like to be cancelled, one year after it happened. A hopeful yet realistic message for everyone.
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Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
A new study published today in Nature Geoscience by Dr Andrew Jarvis at Lancaster University and Professor Piers Forster at the University of Leeds shows that humans may have already caused 1.5 °C of global warming when measured from a time genuinely before the industrial revolution and the start of large-scale carbon…
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Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
Learn what triggers Germany’s exit tax for business owners, how it’s calculated, and why growing a profitable company can make leaving Germany costly.
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The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
BitTorrent used to dominate not just piracy, but the internet. Now, it’s barely noticed in traffic studies. What happened to the platform?