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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,087 posts.
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Trickle-down workaholism in startups
“And then I said anyone not willing to break their backs working for me was a tourist!”If you want to understand why so many startups become infected with unhealthy work habits, or outright workaho…
1953
There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers
In the last 3 months, I've interviewed 134 engineers - students, mid-level, seniors and even CTOs.
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Goodbye Google
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Why you should have a side project
I often advocate people surrounding me to build their own side projects. I believe they can fulfill you in so many ways: for your career, your relationships, or your independence. Buffer, the company I currently work for, was itself a side project. I’ve built myself multiple side projects. The major ones being…
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Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
Brian Donohue | Pinterest engineering manager, Product Engineering
1958
Why I Develop For The Mac
UPDATE, 5/7/2013 : Some off-hand remarks in this article about HTML5 drawing speeds generated some controversy in the hackersphere. To read more, see Adrian Holovaty's post In Defense of <canvas> , and my response, Hackers and <canvas> .
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The Need to Remove Bad Management
I’ve talked a lot recently about bad management as a root cause of poor infrastructure, especially on Twitter. The idea, channeled through Richard Mlynarik, is that the main barrier to good U…
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I’m an Engineer, Not a Compiler
The less sexy (but very important!) side of the data sciences, every Tuesday morning. Click to read Counting Stuff, by Randy Au, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Why so few Matt Levines?
Why are popularizing educational newsletter-frequency writers of important fields like Matt Levine for finance so rare? Because most fields are too slow or ambiguous, and writers of the right combination of expertise, obsession, and persistence are also rare.
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The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple
You find a bug in macOS or iOS. Something in the software isn’t working the way it should work. You decide to let Apple know, and head over to http://bugreport.apple.com and login with your Apple ID.... <a class="read-more"…
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20 years as a Debian maintainer
fte (0.44-1) unstable; urgency=low * initial Release. -- Riku Voipio Wed, 25 Dec 1996 20:41:34 +0200 Welp I seem to have spent holi...
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How I manage 40 people remotely
I’m Ryan Carson, and I’ve been a Founder CEO for 20 years, building, scaling and selling three companies.
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When you want to quit because it's just not worth it
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete melt-down? Well, at least you're in good company.
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Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)
Insights | Vincit
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Please stop the coding challenges
Let’s talk about tech interviews – specifically, the ones that go overboard with unrealistic coding assignments. If you’re a developer who’s been asked to de...
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I'm quitting my PhD
Just a bit over half a year ago, I started my PhD in Quantum Computing. Even though I basically didn’t have any previous knowledge about it, I thought Quantum Computing was an interesting challenge to get into. What should I say? Quantum Computing is really cool, indeed! Having a background in Theoretical Informatics…
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Why Not Comments
Why not "why not" comments? Not why "not comments"
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I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing
In order to protect women, gender nonconforming folks, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community from suffering as my peers and I have, I feel ethically obligated to go public with my ex…
1980
We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from language to code style
A data-driven analysis of thousands of technical interviews that focuses on easily measurable attributes that many interviews share.