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The Founder's Lie About Comfort Zones
There is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through. How long the hours are, we all...
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 4,748 posts.
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How I've started to contribute to open source
A couple of weeks ago, I read a post by Brandon Hays called '“Why I still don't contribute to open source”:http://brandonhays.com/blog/2011/05/03/why-i-still-dont-contribute-to-open-source/' wherein Brandon lays out his reasons for not yet having contributed to any OSS projects.
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(1) Keep it simple, (2) make it something you'd actually use, (3) iterate.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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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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I don’t have time for coding challenges
It tends to be standard recruitment practice in the tech industry to require candidates to complete some sort of coding test or challenge. Sometimes this takes the form of the much-feared whiteboard interview – where candidates are expected to work through a problem on the aforementioned whiteboard, in front of an…
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How can you tell if the company youre interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
How can you tell the companies who are earnestly trying to improve apart from the ones who sound all polished and healthy from the outside, whilst rotting on the inside?
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Hard and Soft Skills in Tech
It’s both more serious and less serious than we’ve admitted
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CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective
Jeff Turkstra's personal website. Contains photographs, memoirs, TI-86 & TI-89 programs/games, quotes, MIDI's, SeaQuest images, links, and more!
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Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist
People often ask me if I’m a talent agent for engineers, in the same way that actors have talent agents in Hollywood. In a lot of ways, the way I work is closer to a talent agent than a traditional recruiter — rather than sourcing for specific positions, I try to find smart people first, […]
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You should write "without bugs"
Why and how you should write "without bugs"
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Writing good performance self reviews
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time!
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Presentation Rules
Login Slot 5000 dengan akses cepat dan stabil, deposit instan tanpa potongan, serta layanan 24 jam untuk pengalaman bermain yang nyaman.
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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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Job Descriptions Should Be Better
Most job descriptions are terrible. We need to make them better.
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A beginner's guide to funemployment
I recently stopped working for 5 months, and aside from writing a few blog posts and getting to Gold League in Starcraft, I achieved very little. It was wonderful.
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Day in the life of a Googler (Matt Welsh)
I was thinking recently about how different my workdays are now that I'm at Google, compared to the faculty job at Harvard. The biggest diff...
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A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost
This is in response to this blog post made at Experts Exchange. Whilst I agree on a few of the points you have made, as a user and a promot...
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What Do We Owe Our Teams?
Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model. Last week, though, in my product leadership workshop, we had an…
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Lumina's legal threats and my about-face
I’m putting the post about Lumina Probiotics back up, now edited to avoid any possible threats of libel.
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Slide Design for Developers
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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A Design Primer for Engineers
For a word that can so vastly change the fortunes of a company, it's worth noting that no generally accepted definition of the word design exists. This means wh
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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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Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (2019)
(The way you can *really* tell something is horribly wrong is that grad students find PhD Comics darkly funny, not just dark.)