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We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews
We built software to mask gender in technical engineering interviews. See what we learned and why it matters.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 363 posts.
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You Are Not Paid to Write Code
“Taco Bell Programming” is the idea that we can solve many of the problems we face as software engineers with clever reconfigurations of the same basic Unix tools. The name comes from the fact that every item on the menu at Taco Bell, a company which generates almost $2 billion in revenue annually, is simply a…
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Firing People
Firing People: a talk about firing people, by Zach Holman.
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A Survival Guide to a PhD
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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10-Year Exercise Periods Make Sense
Scott Kupor at Andreessen Horowitz has a post today on some potential downsides of 10-year exercise periods for startup employees’ stock options. I’d recommend reading the whole thing for context here, but to summarize: * He argues that allowing employees who leave a company to keep their optio...
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Develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris
In computing, “laziness” is a broad term, generally referring to not doing any work unless you need it. Whereas its opposite is “eagerness,” doing as much work as possible in case you need it later.
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How to Get a Job in Deep Learning
Explore resources and tools created to inspire creativity, perform deep learning, and equip your company with Voice AI best practices.
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Heisenberg Developers (2014)
TL:DR You can not observe a developer without altering their behavior. First a story. Several years ago I worked on a largish project...
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CEO
In this post I’m going to try to give potential and actual CEO’s (and other C level execs to some extent) some actionable advice when it comes to how they conduct themselves in the hope that this will at some future date save some of you a great deal of misery and in some cases charges of misconduct or worse. My hope…
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Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great
After a particularly rough couple of months last year, our team (of six) decided it was time for a radical move. At the point we were so downtrodden that our small hope that it would at least provide something new was enough of a motivation for us to decide on a two month experiment: we would try mob programming.
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My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project
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Why does software development take so long?
Nageru 1.4.0 is out (and on its way through the Debian upload process right now), so now you can do live video mixing with multichannel audio to your heart's content. I've already blogged about most of the interesting new features, so instead, I'm trying to answer a question: What took so long?
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Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards
I run a job board that caters to tech jobs, primarily web professionals. This year has been pretty bonkers compared to previous years.
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Why I close pull requests
I maintain many open source projects on GitHub and elsewhere (over 160 as of this writing). I have merged and/or closed thousands of Pull Requests (PRs) and patches in the past few years, and would like to summarize here many of the reasons I don't merge many PRs. A few of my projects have co-maintainers, but most are…
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One year later
A year ago today was my last day working a tech job.
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Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management
I first started managing people seven years ago, three years after I graduated and got my first design job. At the time, I was woefully…
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How to Survive an Acquisition
Last week Facebook announced that they will be shutting down Parse.
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Coding without Google
Back in 2016, an intriguing article appeared on Reddit: “Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently?”. The author discussed if expert programmers use google more often than novice coders. He mentioned that using google is a good thing. It helps to find the best solutions, validate ideas, speed the development…