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Things I learned as an engineer that I wish I had known in grad school
…that I wish I had known when I started grad school
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 243 posts.
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A Path to Full-time Open Source
Two years ago today I released Sidekiq Pro, my commercial extension to Sidekiq, as an experiment to see if I could make OSS development financially viable for individual developers. I had no idea if anyone would trust me and buy it. Can you think of anyone else selling a Rubygem?
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Mistakes Programmers Make when Starting in Machine Learning
There is no right way to get into machine learning. We all learn slightly different ways and have different objectives of what we want to do with or for machine learning. A common goal is to get productive with machine learning quickly. If that is your goal then this post highlights five common mistakes programmers […]
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Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology
I was recently recommended as a pinch-hitter keynote speaker for a Linux conference by a friend who wasn’t going to be able to present due to a scheduling conflict. She put me in touch with the conference organizers, and they reached out to me with the exciting email subject “We want YOU to keynote [conference…
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You only get 1,000 lines of code a week
Choose to do only the things that nobody else can do.
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OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic
OS X 10.9.3 Recurring Panics
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I Quit My Job To Teach People About Hardware
This topic was discussed in greater detail in Episode 184 of to The Amp Hour. This article is more about the personal feelings that have accompanied this (ongo
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Last Minute Advice for YC Applicants
In 2009 I wrote a blog post here about advice for startups applying for YC. Little did I know years later I'd become a partner at Y Combinator and have the chance to shape hundreds of new startups...
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Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist
People often ask me if I’m a talent agent for engineers, in the same way that actors have talent agents in Hollywood. In a lot of ways, the way I work is closer to a talent agent than a traditional recruiter — rather than sourcing for specific positions, I try to find smart people first, […]
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A beginner's guide to funemployment
I recently stopped working for 5 months, and aside from writing a few blog posts and getting to Gold League in Starcraft, I achieved very little. It was wonderful.
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Mistakes we've made
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Sacrificial Architecture
Sometimes it's a good thing to be writing code that you expect to throw away in a couple of years time.
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Academia as an ‘anxiety machine’
We learned recently of the suicide of Stefan Grimm, a successful professor at the prestigious Imperial College in London. Professors Grimm regularly published highly cited articles in the best journals. He was highly productive. Unfortunately, some of his colleagues felt that he did not secure sufficiently large…
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Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory
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No, I’ll tell you the answer
Beware of advice that tries to change who you are. True wisdom guides you to a better version of yourself.
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I Am an Indie iOS Developer – Part 2
I develop apps for iOS
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Confessions of a Full Stack DevOp
Discover how communities and organizations contribute to the open source ecosystem
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A Day of Communication at GitHub
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.