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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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Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model?
Twitter is changing CEOs once again; what if the company changed its business model from ads to subscriptions?
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Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
Earlier today, I announced to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation my intention to step down as CEO later this spring. April 15th will be my last day, marking my seven-year anniversary with th…
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How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan
Curious about living in Japan? Learn from Christian, one of the first digital nomad visa holders, as he shares his experience and tips for obtaining the visa.
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Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019)
To be an effective senior engineer, you need to convince others to help you execute.
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Easy Ways to Fail a Ph.D.
I'm supervising a lot of new grad students this semester, so for their sake, I'm cataloging the common reasons for failure.
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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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Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
I was talking to a former student when he brought up an article written by a well-seasoned programmer regretting his choice of career. This fellow had rejec...
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Advice that worked for me
A big fan of advice posts and productivity guides, here's my contribution to the genre.
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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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Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they ...
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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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Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?
This is quite a popular cartoon. I posted this in a comment on why programmers wear headphones a...
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The Three Kinds of Laziness
We speak of three kinds of laziness. The first is simply to spend all your time eating and sleeping. The second is to tell yourself, "Someone like me will never manage to perfect themselves." In...
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The Bozo Event Horizon
I’m on a Harvard mailing list for some folks interested in startups and innovation. A recent thread of discussion was around hiring, and in a posting to the group I talked about making sure that you did your hiring so that you avoided the bozo effect. I was asked by a number of people what I meant by that, which led…
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The best way to get unstuck
I started dabbling in entrepreneurship over 20 years ago and have experienced the feeling of stuckness more than I can recall...
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My Problem with the Four-Document Model
Two universal facts about user documentation: Documentation is really important. We are really bad at writing it. We don’t have good theories on what makes for useful documentation. That is except for the four document model, or Diátaxis.1 I’m glad that people use it. I’m also a little frustrated that people use it…
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Turning a side project into an open-source project
The world benefits from open source, big time. In this blog post, we’re going to spell out how you and the world can benefit from your side project, too.
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Early Days on Street View
A friend was asking about the early Street View timeline, which prompted a trip down memory lane. It's been at least five years for most of...
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Programmer Competency Matrix (2016)
A matrix for rating programmers on computer science, software engineering, programming, security, infrastructure, data, AI-assisted development, experience and knowledge, from 2ⁿ to log(n).