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Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work
Not all developers make positive contributions. Some create more work for others than they do themselves.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 242 posts.
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The Tools of a Blind Programmer
The Life of a Completely Blind Programmer in the Netherlands
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How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation
So you know the first 6 rules. You’ve maneuvered through the initial offer conversation, you’ve lined up counteroffers from other companies, and now it’s time to move into the actual negotiating. N...
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I’m joining the Go team at Google
I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be primarily based in NYC.
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How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time
From August 2014 to December 2015, I manually tracked all of my work time, minute-by-minute, and analysed the data in R.
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Amazon software engineer interview
Sobit Akhmedov is a staff software engineer with 14 years experience building e-commerce, financial and cloud storage solutions for startup and Big Five companies.
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Nick Farr's 30c3 Jake Appelbaum story of abuse and harassment
Hi. I’m Nick Farr. (@nickf4rr) You can read what you probably came here for at archive.org But if you’ll allow me first: Bringing people together is my life’s work. The text that was originally …
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Ten Years at Google
Today marks my ten year anniversary as a Googler. I arrived with very little; just a suitcase, a backpack, and my pet mouse . Google took care of everything, from finding an apartment, to providing free food, Internet, and transportation. Google is more than an employer, it is a home. Filled with geeks, and makers…
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I'm a good engineer but I suck at building stuff
I'm the head of engineering at Tegus. I write about politics, psychology, and software.
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Work/Life Balance Will Make You a Better Software Engineer
It’s tempting to believe that taking your work home will make you a better software engineer, and that work/life balance will limit your learning. For some software developers programming isn’t just a job: it’s something to do for fun, sometimes even a reason for being. If you love coding and coding is your job, why…
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Taking a month off from OSS volunteering
On October 1, 2016, I stopped volunteering for open source projects -- including Python -- for a month. While I still did open source work for Python as part of my job, I spent absolutely zero time helping any project outside of work (so no evenings, no weekends). This was the first
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My Interviews with Amazon
SLOT200 agen platform hoki masa kini dengan akses mudah 24 jam. Nikmati layanan cepat dan aman untuk pengalaman bermain terbaik anda.
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Consistency is Consistently Undervalued
Transactions are mundane and commonplace. Have we forgotten why they're useful?
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Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
How do we embrace deep work and combat the unparalleled assault on our capacity to concentrate? Some tactics for doing valuable deep work in practice.
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Stories and Tips: Interviews with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Others
Many of my students have been asking questions lately about how to do technical interviews, so I've decided to write about my interviewing experiences. I will start by giving a number of anecdotes because they're interesting to everyone, but the later parts of this post are mainly targeted at prospective students who…
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What My PhD Was Like
What it looks like to do a PhD: the view from my desk. Recently, I have been talking to many prospective Computer Science PhD students ...
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Tips for beginning systems and software engineers
From time to time I’m toying with the idea to give a lecture to newcomers in the IT industry (systems or software engineers). Here are some of the points that I would include in it: Human fa…
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Making 20% Time Work
Following Google’s lead many companies have instituted “20% time” for their employees. This is one day per week in which employees can work on projects of their own choosing. The practice keeps developers motivated and sharp, produces tools to solve company problems, and in the best case creates open source which…
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Remote Work After 5 Years of Experience
Learning about working from home and location independent lifestyle was a true pivotal moment for me. Before that, I didn’t think much about the concept of “freedom at work” or anything like that. And even though the concept was a bit far-fetched for me at the time, I realized that it surely was something that I…
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Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
I was talking to a former student when he brought up an article written by a well-seasoned programmer regretting his choice of career. This fellow had rejec...
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The Dreaded Weekly Status Email
I remember the first time I had to write one of these puppies. I had just been promoted to manager at Yahoo back in 2000, and was running a small team. I was told to “write a status email covering …