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Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against
Should lawyers learn to code? We examine the suitability of lawyers to coding, plus arguments for and againt lawyers and law students learning to code.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 357 posts.
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I don't want to be a full-fullstack developer
In the current year web developers are regarded as Jacks of all trades, they gotta do everything from manual testing to frontend ninjutsu, but is it worth it?
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Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization (2013)
Amazon’s “two-pizza teams” are well-known; they’ve been written about in Fast Company and the WSJ. But almost everyone misses the point. They aren’t about team size—they’re about autonomy and accountability.
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The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing
Whether you’re a recruiter or an engineer, you’ve probably heard of "cost per hire". Here's how to measure it properly.
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Canary analysis: Lessons learned and best practices from Google and Waze
Waze, maker of the community-based traffic navigation app, estimates that canary releases can prevent a quarter of all incidents on their services.
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Who can I hire to hack me?
I use a password manager. I have 2FA set up on everything. When an organisation asks me to set a recovery question, I generate a 32 character passphrase. I don't use my mother's maiden name or my first pet's birthday on anything sensitive. I monitor my email addresses for breaches, and I regularly check my credit…
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How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work
You can’t expect others to fix your problems. When you take responsibility for making the best of any situation, you have the power to make things better.
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Programmer Migration Patterns
I made a little flow chart of mainstream programming languages and how programmers seem to move from one to another. There's a more common...
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My Year in Review: 2019
Here are some of the things I’m most proud of from 2019, and some of the biggest lessons I’ve learned.
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Steps to Building an Engineering Competency Matrix
Learn how to provide your employees and reports with a clear, agreed-upon, and well-defined path for growth within your organization.
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Open-plan office is the worst. Why can't we kill it?
The open-plan office fad took off as a dream for a more collaborative and egalitarian workplace. Tear down those walls! Ditch the soul-crushing...
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Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016)
Hello, world.
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Reviewing Bad Schematics as EE Interview Tactic
help your EE candidates strut their stuff
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Don’t Shy Away or Risk Cowardly Management
I’m not a big fan of stereotypes, but there’s no denying that a lot of leaders in tech are former engineers–a group no one would claim is known for being…
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Dear Programming Job Applicants (2010)
This article is written with considerable snark–put on your flameproof suit if needed. I’m not actually a jerk when interviewing people, but I do get frustrated when candidates fail to do basic preparation. If you’re unsure about how to prepare for a programming interview, read on… I know this might come as a shock to…
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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice
Erik Bernhardsson
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Decision Disagreement Framework
How do you disagree with a decision that is not in the best interest of the company? As a leader, how do you enable your team to disagree in a productive way? Learn how with Matter's Decision Disagreement Framework.
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Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse
I stuck with Windows 10 as my primary OS for 6 years, despite being a Ruby developer. In this blog post I would like to cover why this happened.
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Software design is also about relationships
In parts 1 and 2 we saw:
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Hiring Is Obsolete (2005)
May 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Berkeley CSUA.) The three big powers on the Internet now are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Average age of their founders: 24. So it is pretty well established now that grad students can start successful companies. And if grad students can do it, why not undergrads?…
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Back to Basics (2001)
We spend a lot of time on this site talking about exciting Big Picture Stuff like .NET versus Java, XML strategy, Lock-In, competitive strategy, software design, architecture, and so forth. All thi…