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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 243 posts.

Career & Management
2014
131

Be Nice Or Leave

We have a sign like this in our beach house. We got it in New Orleans many years ago. I thought of that sign when I was on the phone yesterday. I was talking to a person involved in a deal I’m working on right now. He said “you guys are being awfully nice here.” For […]

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Your developers aren’t slow

“Why didn’t we ship last week?” As managers, it’s easy for us to blame our team for missing deadlines. But are slow developers really the reason you’re not shipping on time? At Sprintly, we have a lot of data on developer cycle time. We track how long it takes them to complete different types of …