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Companies need junior devs
Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,895 posts.
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Kindness, tech staffing and resource allocation
People in tech are increasingly concerned about their jobs. This sentiment shift is somewhat new. We’ve experienced a decade or so of talking about skills shortages, arguably kicked off by Marc Andreesen’s publication of Software is Eating the World in 2011. Tech salaries spiked accordingly. Keynotes kept talking…
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Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me
People who search for me in Google see a Google-generated box which incorrectly says that I am Israeli. Google has ignored my complaints about this; they dont seem to care about the accuracy of the…
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Minimum pay at Basecamp is now $70k
We pay at the top 10% of San Francisco market rates for salary + bonus (but not stock options) at Basecamp. Those rates apply to everyone here, regardless of the role or where they actually live. W…
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Cloudy with a Chance of Lock-In
There lots of products that came to market in the recent past and that will come to market in the near future that use some kind of cloud hosted component. In many cases these products rightly use some kind of off-device service in order to provide you with features that would otherwise not be possible. Sometimes…
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Pinecone raises $100M Series B
Dear Pinecone Community, I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you all. We raised $100 million in Series B funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from ICONIQ Growth, and our existing investors Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. This funding brings our valuation to $750 million, hitting…
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Introducing Hello
See who's calling, block unwanted calls and search for people and places.
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Don't Subscribe So Casually
Or, why your AI subscription is worth analyzing
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Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the world’s largest nonprofit membership organization serving all individuals who create games. We advance the careers and enhance the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating for the…
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The Future of Group Messaging
An analysis of modern messaging, and the evolutionary next steps.
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Notion Acquires Automate.io
We're acquiring Automate.io, a workflow automation software that has spent the last 5 years building connectivity and integrations for 200+ other software tools.
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Grammarly acquires Coda
We’re excited to announce that Grammarly is acquiring Coda. Here’s a look at Coda’s next chapter.
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Artifact: What Went Wrong?
Previously: Card Balance and Artifact, Artifact Embraces Card Balance Changes, Review: Artifact Epistemic Status: Looks pretty dead Artifact had every advantage. Artifact should have been great. Ar…
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Software Is the New Oil
I was with some friends this weekend and one of them was talking about an investment committee meeting he attended and there was a discussion at that meeting about some of the threats out there in the macro investment landscape. One of them was “vanishing liquidity” and the significant change in net cash flows from […]
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Why We Choose Profit
We’re outspoken about running a profitable company in an industry that so often eschews profits for potential. So why? People ask us why all the time. Why choose profit? So I thought I’d detail som…
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The Sovietization of the American Press
The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement
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LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements
Up to 100% performance improvements thanks to the efforts of a diverse and growing developer and QA community Berlin, May 30, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.4, the fifth version of the free office suite’s 3.5 family. LibreOffice 3.5.4 offers significant performance improvements over the…
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Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference
When the internal Google remote quality rater guidelines leaked online there was a core quote inside it that defined the essence of spam:
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Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service
It started off a few months ago, when my iPad suddenly couldn’t play videos any more that it had recorded. It would show the first frame, but hitting the play button wouldn’t do anythin…
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Every software project is a startup that will probably fail
It dawned on me today. Maybe most software fails. Not in the sense that “it eventually dies after a long and respectable life.” In the sense that it never actually achieves flight, never catches on, never produces more value that it cost to develop.
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Unity 4 is here
Explore all of Unity's products and services to find the right set of tools for you. Get more information about our plans and pricing.