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Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?
Choosing to be the CEO or CTO after raising a seed round.
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Career & Management
The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 370 posts.
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Is my advice too mercenary?
A criticism of some of my writing is that it’s too mercenary. Some see my advice as coldly calculating, too focused on individual outcomes over collective ones, and implicitly distrustful of others. I think this is fair criticism! It’s not exactly what I’m going for, but it’s a fair reading. However, there’s more to…
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What I don’t like about working at a remote job
Priyanka's internet home
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We need someone who has done “it” before
Have you (or your company) tried repeatedly to hire for Role X?
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Writing for Engineers
This article is available as Korean- (thanks to longfin ) and Chineese- (thanks to webup ) translation.
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Teaching how to code is broken
Typically: * Chapter 1: Types * Chapter 2: Variables * Chapter 3: Operators/Math * Chapter 4: Control structures * Chapter 5: Arrays * Chapter 6: Functions * Chapter 7: Structs * Chapter 8: Classes and Objects * Chapter 9: Methods * Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism * Chapter 11: Some advanced thing X * Chapter…
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My Experience as a SWE Intern at Goldman Sachs
Disclaimer: I did have to sign a NDA, so I can't go too in depth on certain things. But I'll do my best to capture the essence of it and my…
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Don't be that open-source user, don't be me
Before I was a maintainer of open source software I was a user of open source software, and I sometimes behaved badly.
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Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time
tl;dr: I believe HN Who is Hiring? posts are down; scroll to the bottom for the chart, code lives here. Hacker News. The Orange Site. Since April 2011, it’s had a thread every month, which dares potential employers to answer one question: who is hiring? I take a quick skim through this thread every month. ... Hacker…
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Spf13 is leaving Google
I’m leaving my role as the Product Lead for the Go Language at Google. I’m super proud of everything the Go team has accomplished in the last six years, and …
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Becoming a Systems Architect
Unknowingly I’ve become what I always wanted, but couldn’t even name it. I have a short story to tell, about how I got here, and where I want to go.
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Apple Interview – 1995
In the 1990’s, I had access to the early internet (before the web) and made use of a public forum ( Usenet ) where I could ask and respond to questions about programming the Macintosh computer. I’ve mentioned before how this caught the attention of engineering at Apple ( Tom Dowdy , in any event). Perhaps too, the…
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DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
The ideas behind the DevOps movements undeniably changed the software development world for the better - but by now, the term “DevOps” has lost all meaning. Sometimes an idea is so good, that you can’t argue with it. I’m not saying that the original idea behind “DevOps” was perfect - I’ve written about some of the…
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Product vs. Engineering
Friction Between Product and Engineering; Lack of trust and collaboration slowing down product growth
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Founding Uber SRE
This is my personal story of starting the SRE organization at Uber. If you want advice rather than reminiscence, take a look at Trunk and Branches Model and Productivity in the age of hypergrowth. After I left SocialCode in 2014, I spent a month interviewing at a handful of companies trying to figure out what to do…
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Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet
Manu Cornet's personal website.
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Misidentifying talent
Out of context, you might think they were scouting actors or models, but these are baseball players ("A" is Lloyd Moseby, "B" is Jim Abbott, and "C" is Derek Jeter), ones that were quite good (Lloyd Moseby was arguably only a very good player for perhaps four years, but that makes him extraordinary compared to most…
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‘Return to the office’ rhetoric needs to end
Disclaimer: I know not all jobs can be done from home. This article is aimed at the ones that can be done remotely yet have ‘management…
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The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
When I started dating my partner, I quickly noticed that grad school was making her very sad. This was shortly after I’d started leading an engineering team at Wave, and so the “obvious” hypothesis to me was that the management (okay, “management”) one gets in graduate school is totally ineffective. Most graduate…
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General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
From the depths of the IT world, there are things that you only learn through experience.
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In Praise of Stacked PRs
Managing sets of small, dependent PRs enables faster review and increased developer velocity
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