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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 325 posts.
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Software Development Estimates: Where Do I Start?
For some reason many people discuss the problem of estimating software development timeframes without properly understanding the issue. There is a famous answer on Quora that exemplifies this. Lots of people like that story, even though it’s inaccurate and misguided. “Software development” is such a huge endeavor that…
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21 Months In: How to Manage a Remote Team
If you want some ideas on how one team has set up their team to be successful at remote work, then stick around. This chapter is for you. Read more.
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There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work
Discover the latest software industry insights and trends with our blog. Keep up-to-date withBusiness Advice and our software experts and tips at lessacounting
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Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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The brutal truth about marketing your software product
We tend to hear a lot about software industry success stories. But most of us mere mortals have to fail a few times before we learn enough to succeed. In this guest post William Echlin talks about …
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Becoming A Boss
I was watching this Charlie Rose interview with Lena Dunham and I was struck by this line: it’s really intense to be thrust into a managerial position before my time I have seen this a lot in my business and its always your talent for making things that puts you in this spot. And one […]
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C.S. on the cheap
The famous book publisher Hayward Cirker, the founder of Dover Publications built a fortune on finding obscure books that had either gone out of print or escaped publication altogether, and printing them himself. Among his many successes you’ll find amazing books on mathematics and physics including The Theory of…
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Aaron Swartz's Y Combinator Interview
Editorial note: This entry has more dialogue and so on than usual and I’m pretty uncertain about ordering and attribution, so don’t start changing your opinions of people on the basis of things I say they said.
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A Tale of Two Interviews, Part 1
It’s job hunting time for me again. I took quite a chunk of time off after leaving my last job. Now that I’m ready to dive back in, I’ve been thinking more and more about the job hunting process I went through the last time. I’d like to tell you about the last two interviews I had during my job hunt. This is the story…
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After working +1200 hours in oDesk
No matter if you are applying for a job in the real life or through Internet, one point that everyone is going to agree is that cover letters matter as much as a good cv.
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
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How I got hired at a Y Combinator start-up without the necessary credentials
The latest and greatest in industry news, company announcements, and general topic conversations are all curated here.
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My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why
Everyone mocks the Microsoft stack until they see the bills. What our .NET and SQL Server setup really costs to run, compared to the cool-kid alternatives.
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Who took a chance on you?
Many folks get to experience some of their goals because someone, somewhere along the way, gave them a shot. They took a real chance based on something they felt or saw (vs historical evidence per se).
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Technical Interviews Make Me Cry
First, let me clarify one thing for those of you who've never dated me: I cry. A lot. When I can't get my vagrant box setup correctly afte...