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Career & Management
The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 4,748 posts.
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Cannot Measure Productivity
It is impossible to measure the effectiveness of tools and techniques in software development because we have no way of measuring our output, and thus our productivity.
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How Universities Work, or: What I Wish I’d Known As a Freshman
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“Why do you work in security instead of something more lasting?”
This post grew out of a friend on Facebook asking (I paraphrase) "why do you spend your time on security instead of using your brainpower f...
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Why I'm leaving Harvard (for Google)
The word is out that I have decided to resign my tenured faculty job at Harvard to remain at Google. Obviously this will be a big change in ...
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Software Development: Mistakes I Made
Recently I revealed the secret of academic success. This was so popular (16000 views!) that I decided I would follow up with the secret of software success – success in producing software. No…
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Listen to Understand
You can captivate someone not by what you say, but by how you listen.
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How to get a job at a kick-ass startup (for programmers)
When I finished college, I was incredibly naive when it came to finding a great job. I knew that I...
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Do literally anything
Feeling overwhelmed? Don't know where to start? Do literally anything.
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Tips for work-life balance
My reply crossed the threshold for a blog post, so I'm posting it here to be consistent with my own principles on academic blogging .
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Amazon doubling down on return to office
The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office policy last month, Amazon just made it clear that the policy is going ahead.
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Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023)
For basically as long as I can remember, I have been a staunch defender of permissive licenses over the more copyleft variety. I want you to use things I've written. On top of that I don't believe it's my place to force you to then open source things you have written that expand upon my source code. Hence my extensive…
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You’re working in the wrong place if you’re working in an open office
Open offices misunderstand psychology and design
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Exercise More to Hack Better
Wherever the image came from of a productive hacker being a vitamin D deficient couch potato, fueled entirely by Ramen and Jolt, it needs to die.
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The silent death of good code
I’ve been passionate about writing “Good Code™” since before I started my career, beginning way back when I was still a kid in middle school.
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Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)
In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is a currently-undetermined type of ...
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Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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The burden of an Open Source maintainer
Or: Why can't you just merge my ten-line PR already? I maintain over 200 open source projects. Apparently (this is news to me) I am ranked in the top 200 GitHub users by followers, and there are 18,000 forks and 42,000 stars across my repos. On an average day, I see between 50-100 emails across my repositories for…
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Why Most Software Engineers Lose Nothing by Unionizing
Should software engineers unionize? I can’t give a simple answer to this. There are advantages and disadvantages to enrolling in a collective bargaining arrangement. If the disadvantages didn…
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