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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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A Forty Year Career
The Silicon Valley narrative centers on entrepreneurial protagonists who are poised one predestined step away from changing the world. A decade ago they were heroes, and more recently they’ve become villains, but either way they are absolutely the protagonists. Working within the industry, I’ve worked with quite a few…
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Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
Over the last few years, I’ve grown from a fine to a good operator.
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The danger of hidden functional roles
There’s a collection of friends that I have a standing videochat with every couple of weeks. We had been meeting at 8am, but several people developed conflicts at that time, including me. I h…
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How to Make Remote a Success
Insights and strategies for making a successful remote environment for your team and company, from the perspective of Bearer's CTO.
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The Secret Lives of Professors (What Being a Professor is Really Like)
I came to Harvard 7 years ago with a fairly romantic notion of what it meant to be a professor -- I imagined unstructured days spent mentori...
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Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture
Deep work Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to working in a continuously interrupting environment. Smartphone notifications, hundreds of e-mails, open spaces, and meetings slicing our workday. We are feeling busy, and overworked, but are we more productive? If I am a salesman or project coordinator that way of…
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(Android) Developer Income Report #14
As many of you already know I am publishing my monthly income reports each month. Here is another one that will sum up the August 2011. As I have discovered some new methods to make your applicatio…
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Business questions worth asking
This is a list of questions I’ve collected over the years that resonate with my business and product philosophies. Most are not original and were collected from or inspired by various books…
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Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
In this blog post we caught up with Chris Jones, a Site Reliability Engineer on Google App Engine for the past three-and-a-half years and SRE at Google for almost 9 years, to find out more about running production systems at Google. Chris is also one of the editors of S ite Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs…
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A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women in tech
Over the last several months, I've witnessed many controversial discussions among my friends, in my San Francisco community, and on online forums about James Demore’s memorandum [https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320] . People of both genders are wrestling with the fact…
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Thoughts on tech employment
The Washington Post writes The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? This article has some good data, but I think misses the point with sub-heads like “Shine has co…
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Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important. Code is now easy to generate using LLMs, but it’s still just as hard to review. Many software…
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I plan to leave tech to pursue art
I've spent 240 hours the past 6 months drawing, and I'm eager to go all-in. I'm planning to apply to Sheridan's animation undergrad program in February, and have been busy preparing a portfolio for it. Here's some of my recent work, and a lil music video featuring my progress over the months.
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The evolution of the data engineer role
The Evolution of The Data Engineer: A Look at The Past, Present & Future
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Board Members
Over the last five years, there has been an incredible shift in leverage from investors to founders. It’s good in most ways, but bad in an important few. Founders’ desire for control is good in...
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Extremist Programming
Lazy evaluation is awesome. What if we made a PL where every data type was lazy?
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Don’t email me
Why I insist on people to keep issues on the mailing list(s) A recent twitter discussion I had with Andrei Neculau contributed to his blog post on this subject, basically arguing that I'm wrong but with many words and explanations. It triggered me to write up my primary reasons for why I strongly object to … Continue…
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Two Years, Four Nanodegree Programs, and a New Career
Udacity's blog offers news and articles on the fastest, most effective way to gain job-ready expertise for the careers of the future.
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