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Why is everything so hard in a large organization?
Update : this post has comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692026 You're a member of a team that is part of a large organiza...
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The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee
Compare fast payout casinos on withdrawal speed, crypto and e-wallet options, payout limits, KYC steps and fees. Ten ranked sites explained. 21+. 1-800-GAMBLER.
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Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for success.
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The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard
Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd. It’s a community for people who make things by hand: In that time I’ve: Talked to zero potential …
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I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k
UPDATE 2: There's a few things I want to clear up here about certain assumptions made about what exactly happened. Prior to the database...
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I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money
I have hit the point where I can't do anything for fun anymore. Every hobby is not an attempt to make some extra money or turn it into profit.
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The Document Culture of Amazon
A look at Amazon's culture of writing and reading
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Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
1. It is possible to turn a mediocre job into a great one
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My seatbelt rule for judgment
One of my formative childhood lessons came when I was playing in the garage one day. I went into my mom’s car and put the seatbelt on (probably to pretend I was flying a plane). I realized at one point that I could still lean pretty far forward. Far enough that my head could touch the dashboard. How ridiculous! What’s…
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Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech
Outside my day job doing compiler research at Shopify, I lead the Cheshire Yeomanry , a squadron of British Army Reserve light cavalry . I spend about a hundred days a year of my spare-time in evenings, weekends, and holidays, training my Squadron.
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Groups never admit failure
Groups never admit failure. A group would rather keep living in the mythology of “we were repressed” than ever admit failure. Individuals are the only ones who admit failure. Even individuals don’t like to admit failure, but eventually, they can be forced to. A group will never admit they were wrong. More
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Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
AI definitely helps with productivity, but only when you have the right culture in place first!
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I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
Appaji, a Computer Science graduate from IIT Patna and former intern at Arista Networks, is a Software Engineer at Infinite Reality. Passionate about building innovative web experiences, with a strong interest in sustainable and customer-focused startups.
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No More Blue Fridays
No More Blue Fridays: How eBPF is already being adopted to prevent kernel crashes.
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10 years of whatever this has been
I guess I know something about train wrecks. One night when I was 10 years old, me and my mom were driving home. We came to a train crossin...
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The Ponzi Career
The future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person.
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Leaving Google has actively improved my life
In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.^1] This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consum...
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The peril of laziness lost
In his classic Programming Perl — affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" — Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris: