Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,086 posts.
When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that …
We analyzed the 30 most-applied-to U.S. tech companies of all time on AngelList and found that over half host open-source projects.
Why AI Won’t Save Your Broken Workflow
This article is part of a 3-part series on trimodal compensation: * Part 1: The trimodal nature of software engineering salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021, this article) * Part 2: The trimodal nature of tech compensation revisited (2024, this article) * Part 3: The trimodal nature of tech compensation in
Today we will pour one out for the vaunted technical interview process, which is on its last leg. And we’ll talk a little about what’s…
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After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and I don’t think they are managing their talented staff in an empathetic or effective way. If you’d like me to continue…
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
I think there’s something messed up about the startup culture in the USA. The belief is that you have to work 6-7 days a week and spend all your mental cycles on your company. Nothing but pledging your soul to your startup yields success, right?
In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc…
How to sabotage software productivity, in the style of CIA
Let’s come up with an analogy and then torture it like we’re the Cheney administration: imagine you’ve just purchased a plot of land. What a...
For significant contributions to the history of computing, in particular pioneering the C++ programming language, Bjarne Stroustrup has been named … <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/2017/bjarne-stroustrup-awarded-2017-faraday-medal/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Bjarne…
My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up on a farm without electricity. He went past eighth grade, which really mattered to him. He loved that I played harp, which he always called "elegant," in an extremely Missouri…
Soft skills play an important role for programmers, listening to clients’ requirements, creating solutions, and communicating effectively can make or break a career.
The reasons for this, are quite irrelevant to this article, but in short, the investor backed out and the ongoing development of a product I was mainly involved in, had been suspended.
Before we launched HelloSign, I remember showing HelloFax to a family member. This person was normally supportive, but he took a glance and walked away. He wasn't the only one. A lot of people...
Coming on Stage for my Set. From March to April 2022 I took part in a 6 week stand-up comedy course for beginners at The Comedy St...
For the first time since Fog Creek Software was founded more than sixteen years ago, we have a new CEO, Anil Dash.
The following is my response to Ewan Valentine’s blog post “How to never complete anything” that I discovered on Hacker News. Once again, I ask for people’s indulgence for posting a reply on my own blog rather than in the Hacker News comments. I find writing on my own blog a bit easier than wading […]
