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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 172 posts.
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How My Brain Kept Me from Co-Founding YouTube
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Understanding Engineers
Indexing the entire World Wide Web and providing relevant search results in millisecond response times is a Very Hard problem. Breaking commercial-grade encryption within practical hardware and time limitations is a Very Hard problem. Peace in the Middle East is a Very Hard problem.
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RethinkDB looking for a technical cofounder
Looking for a technical cofounder for RethinkDB.
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Some “Developers” Just Can’t Develop
I’ve been interviewing candidates for developer positions for over a decade now. In my early years I was very much hit and miss in terms of...
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No, 37Signals, Planning Is Not What You Think
Learn about Palo Alto Software, one of Oregon's premier software companies and a worldwide leader in business software for entrepreneurs.
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How to Do What You Love (2006)
January 2006 To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated. The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work…
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A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this economy
So almost two months ago, I found a new job. After I came back home from Seattle, my wife and I stayed at her dad's house - he helped us t...
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Gaming the System
On my list of creative management solutions to dire situations, I offer the rolling whiteboard. The rolling whiteboard was a curiosity at the start-up. Not a f
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Sacrifice your health for your startup
Maximizing your chance for success means sacrificing health and family. This sounds controversial, but it's not just me.
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Climbing the wrong hill
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups