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Lucky Lotto, chaos engineering but for teams
Building resilience teams with chaos engineering principles.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 331 posts.
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How to win a hackathon without coming in first place
To win first place at a hackathon, you need to combine multiple components... and that's not always possible. Here's how to make the most of your next hackathon without coming in 'first place'.
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Am I stuck in a local maximum?
On long-standing controversies, biases, and failures of communication.
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I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS
I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS in any capacity moving forward. I had one bad experience with him when I was 17 - he told me in writing that he had an ‘adventurous love life’...
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On Being Blacklisted
I understand why writers exhibit cowardice, but I don’t have much sympathy for them.
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Software development is a loser’s game
Great code doesn’t save you, but bad code will kill you #HoskWisdom
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Maslow's Pyramid of Code Review (2015)
Maslow's pyramid can help us think about what great code reviews look like.
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Interview Frustrations
Update: Here’s the link to the HN discussion about this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26092964
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Has Agile Become Addiction to Instant Gratification?
“Agile” in software engineering has become the de-facto mode of operation for quite some time now. If what Bill Gates said is true, that…
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Teaching Students How to Cheat During the Pandemic
Modification of Kobayahsi Maru for all-virtual classes
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Why do interviewers ask linked list questions?
A couple years back I gave a talk on researching software history, using “linked list interview questions” as an example topic. Since referring people to a video is less accessible than just writing a blog post, I’ve reproduced the question here. So why do interviewers like to ask linked list questions? If you ask…
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How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding
Using spaced repetition to create understanding
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The Mediocre Programmer
The Mediocre Programmer is a book about the journey of becoming a better programmer. But before we can become better programmers we have to pass through being mediocre programmers. Mediocre doesn't mean a bad programmer --- far from it. It means lacking skill. As beginners we start our journey full of fresh ideas of…
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Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run.
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Three sins of authors in computer science and math (1997)
Most of us learn how to write technical articles by osmosis. After reading a hundred or so papers, we unconsciously pick up the common patterns of the field and begin to imitate them. This phenomenon is largely beneficial, but there are several truly odious habits that are almost universally and inadvertently adopted…
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Infosec Core Competencies
An incomplete list of (technical) things just about anybody working in Information Security would benefit from knowing.
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My proposal for scaling open source: don’t
I've had a number of conversations about what "we" in the "free software community" "need" to do to combat the growth in proprietary, user-hostile and customer-hostile business models like cloud user-generated content hosts, social media platforms, hosted payment platforms, videoconferencing services etc. Questions…
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A day in the life of a professional software engineer
Just a normal day reversing linked lists on the whiteboard.
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Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list
Without psychological safety, respect, and trust, none of the following is possible. The way we work, the work we do, and the organizations within which we work are all part of a connected system. You cannot change anything without changing everything. You cannot improve a system by tinkering with the parts. Process…
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Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of any ransom…
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Escaping the Roadmap Trap
Stop chasing your feature development plan and start crafting strategic product roadmaps
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Being on Call
I’m an occasional on-call operator for my battalion, assisting the on-call commander and staffing the control room from 16:00 in the afternoon until