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Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career
I've always wondered if I'm really happy at my work. After analysing my happiness throughout my entire career, I've found the exact answer to this question!
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
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The Advantage of Being a Little Underemployed
To realize how outdated the five-day, 40-hour workweek is, you have to know where it came from.
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“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
Dec 18 Update: This morning I was contacted by a PayPal manager from their fraud department who talked with me close to an hour. He went out of his way to apologize for their mishandling of my case. He told me that...
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Use a Decision Journal
If you feel overwhelmed by the choices you need to make, it's time to start using a decision journal. Learn how this simple practice can change the way you think and perform.
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What happens to developers who never go into management?
What if you never take that promotion?
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Three teen sisters who win medals in coding competitions
Elene first lit up the path toward coding for her sisters Mari and Ani. We learn how the sisters have achieved so much at such a young age.
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We still believe in private offices (2015)
There was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument , the Internet agreed that private offices were the future, and only incompetent management (or a tight budget) was still putting developers in cubicle farms. A glorious future lay before us.
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We cancelled standups and let the team build
When is the last time you experimented with process? Here's a fun example
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Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)
Why does it take so long to build software? We hear variations of this question frequently: Why is building software so expensive? Why is my team delivering software so slowly? Why am I perpetually behind schedule with my software? There is a good reason we hear these questions over and over. Businesses need more and…
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Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
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Rapid release at massive scale
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What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love
Wesley Faulkner’s story
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How to Hire Your First Engineer
Harj Taggar [https://twitter.com/Harjeet] is cofounder and CEO of Triplebyte [https://triplebyte.com/] (YC S15). Triplebyte helps great engineers find work at the fastest growing companies in the world, with the least amount of time and effort. Before cofounding Triplebyte, Harj was a Partner at YC…
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Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
How Cockroach Labs built MOLT Sinai, an AI coding “teaching hospital” that shipped IBM Db2 migration support in under two days.
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Appeal accepted: Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
(UPDATE: Mommy Saver Plus has been reinstated! This after I posted this on HN, tweeted at them, and sent a slightly-too-passive-aggressive ...
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Forecast, don't guesstimate your software projects
"When will it be done?" Is a question I get asked almost weekly as a software developer. Despite building software professionally for the last 15 years
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How to grow into your best developer self
Getting started the right way as a developer is tough, soI wrote you a letter I’d love to have received some ten years ago. Here's myfive minute how-to
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The productivity tax you pay for context switching
How distraction became our default way of working and what you can do to reclaim your focus
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Improving code review time
Code reviews are one of the most important parts of the software development process At Meta we’ve recognized the need to make code reviews as fast as possible without sacrificing quality We’re sha…
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Tell, don't ask
And now, a friendly message from your local Tell, don’t ask Department. ...
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The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership
Learn about ownership of legacy software code.
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Google IT Support Professional Certificate
The IT Support Professional Certificate program on Coursera helps prepare people for roles in IT support.
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Software Development Waste
I've looked back at the end of every software project I've ever been on and thought, "If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have been done in half the time." Despite this, I've never thought carefully about exactly where all the time went and why so much of it felt wasted.