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Why Did San Francisco Schools Stop Teaching Algebra in Middle School? (2016)
Algebra is no longer being taught to San Francisco eighth graders. Is the tech capital of the world dumbing down its STEM education?
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
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Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first
The message below on return-to-office plans was shared by Andy Jassy with Amazon employees today.
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When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: Career Successes Come in Clusters
Bursts of brilliance happen for almost everyone. Explore the “hot streaks” of thousands of directors, artists and scientists in our graphic.
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Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development
80% of the people involved in software development spend 80% of their time developing. Why use a tool designed for planning to manage dev team activities?
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Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025
A practical guide for hiring a developer as a small indie studio. How we, a three-person team, managed 159 applicants using a streamlined, time-efficient process. The article covers designing relevant take-home assignments and a simple Gmail labeling system for high-volume candidate triage.
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How to Review Code as a Junior Developer
Emma Catlin | Software Engineer
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Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself
The latest cybersecurity industry news, tips, and trends.
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The tech industry controls CS conference funding. What are the dangers?
Research about the influence of computing technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), on society relies heavily upon the financial support of the very companies that produce those technologies. Corporations like Google, Microsoft, and IBM spend millions of dollars each year to sponsor labs, professorships, PhD…
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Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs. N…
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Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead
Magic Leap is pioneering see-through augmented reality through innovative waveguide development and manufacturing. Groundbreaking optics technologies.
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It’s not the methods that are Agile, it’s the people
Thoughts on web and mobile development, product design, and project management. Straight from the 10Clouds team. Learn more...
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A practical guide to incident management
This guide respresents our years of collective knowledge and experience, distilled into practical advice that can be adopted across your whole organization.
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You and Your Research (1986)
Little has been written on managing your own research (and very little on avoiding other people managing your research); however, your research is much more under your control than you may realize.
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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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An API Journey: From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way
The whole API lifecycle should go agile in order to stay relevant. But, this is made difficult because new Service-Based Architecture makes dependencies skyrocket! It’s time to think of a new way to
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Michael Nielsen joins the Recurse Center to help build a research lab
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you
Artists looking for a change already have one foot in another career.
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Making software engineering interviews predictive of job performance
There is a plethora of data and research available that outlines *exactly* how companies can build a hiring process for software engineers that's truly predictive of their future, on-the-job performance. Yet, the tech industry at large has all but ignored these practices opting instead for antiquated hiring processes…
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Tor Project Statement on Jacob Appelbaum
Over the past several days, a number of people have made serious, public allegations of sexual...
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What Startups Really Mean by “Why Should We Hire You?”
We take this and other standard questions, translate their subtext, and provide you with the best approach to help you land the job.