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What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?
Anonymous career advice from people whose work we respect.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 357 posts.
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A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption
Discussion on Hacker News This article and its topic were the subject of fairly detailed discussion on this thread here on Hacker News. Perusing through the comments should be well worth your time,…
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Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers
Analyzing compensation packages from 2019 new-graduate technology job offers.
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What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco
We started Kapwing (an online image and video editor [https://www.kapwing.com]) almost two years ago and grew the company from 2 co-founders to 12 full-time employees in the last 12 months. Our team is based full-time in San Francisco, where the unemployment rate is astonishingly low. I wanted
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Getting too absorbed in side projects
Does anyone else get too absorbed in side projects that you forget about life
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People don’t want to commute; they just don’t want to miss out
We recently met with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij to talk all about how they scaled a multi-billion dollar company with beyond 800 employees, fully remotely.
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Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume
Want more interviews? The fast and easy way to revamp your resume and get noticed is to use CV Compiler.
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Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
So now the narrative is not “Away fires woman CEO and co-founder, replaces her with a man”. Instead, the narrative is “Away fires CEO who created ‘toxic culture’, brings in fresh leadership” — a narrative that wouldn’t be possible without The Verge’s story last Thursday.
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What senior engineers do: fix knowledge holes
I had a bad week a few weeks back, and got together with a friend and former colleague. We started trading war stories. He mentioned one time when he was working for a company which had both a desktop client and a server component. The communication between the two pieces of the system was completely, utterly…
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Why some software developers hate Agile
Many developers have been voicing their concerns about Agile being broken lately. Among them are prominent figures like Robert C. Martin and Kent Beck – two of the people who charted the original Agile Manifesto. Why is that?
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Books and lectures don't work
Designing media to reflect how people think and learn
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Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the data science generalist
This post discusses the benefits of full-stack data science generalists over narrow functional specialists. The later will help you execute and bring process...
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Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)
One of the most useful lessons I learned from working at Facebook had nothing to do with technology: Doubt the media. Always doubt the…
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My Experience as a Remote Worker
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
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In Defence of the Technical Interview
Coding puzzles and their prevalence
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Skills Poor Programmers Lack
A friend and I had a discussion about the basic skills that are often lacking in experienced programmers. How can a programmer work for ten or twenty years and never learn to write good code? Too often they need close supervision to ensure they go down the right path, and can never be trusted to take technical…
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Systems thinking as important as ever for new coders
I was at the Microsoft BUILD conference last week and spent some time with a ...
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The Secret Rules For Getting Hired
I'm going to let you in to three TOP SECRET rules for getting hired. These are the hidden techniques used by TOP interviewers… Never Tell The Candidates The Rules Of Success I read an infuriating blog post recently: "If someone doesn't send a thank you email, don't hire them". This is a great way to limit your talent…
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People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study
Love Your Job? Someone May be Taking Advantage of You | Duke's Fuqua School of Business
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Hiring Is Broken?
I can’t keep track of the number of articles I’ve read about hiring in the past few years. Inevitably, they all follow the exact same format. First, they claim that hiring is broken. Ne…
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Which Way Do You Run?
The difference between a good CEO and a great one? Trusting your gut and confronting your fears head on.
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You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work
My friend Csongor recently published a computer science paper that’s super interesting if you’re as big a nerd as I am. The details are too much to go into here, but suffice to say, it lets us do a lot of things I’d always been told were impossible.
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How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer
In a previous post I outlined why programmers should strive to be good at one thing rather than everything. In this post I discuss how to ...
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On me, and the Media Lab
(Please be sure to read the addendum at the end of this post.) A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito about the release of documents that accuse Media Lab co-founder Marvin Minsky of involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes.* Joi told me that evening that the Media Lab’s ties to Epstein went… Read More »On…
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Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little
A special thing we do at work because I asked for it is that we have CO2 monitors in the meeting rooms. These measure the levels of CO2 levels in the air. In...