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Rands in Repose: The Noise
It started that morning when you actually had time to go to your favorite coffee shop on that Wednesday morning. You, like many of us, had a bunch of time off f
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
The year was 2015, halfway through my Computer Science bachelor’s degree. I had spent a few months contributing to open source and my confidence levels were high, so I thought: why not aim for a summer internship at Microsoft? Microsoft, of all places, might sound like a weird company to target in 2026. Back then…
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Final Statement on the LambdaConf Controversy
We want professional ethics and a great FP conference
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Technical Recruiting Needs to Focus on Selling the Position
Developer and writer.
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I Failed to Transform the Enterprise
how management power plays win out over measurable profit increases, risk mitigations and years of track record
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What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week
Instead of taking all my vacation at once, I decided to see what a 4-day work week would look like. It taught me a lot about myself and how I work.
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Handling attraction in a professional setting
I met my wife at a tech holiday party. I saw her from across the party and the rest of the people in the room disappeared…but this story doesn’t go the way you think. We didn’t ge…
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A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems
Moderating is about dealing with people problems and some people problems are extremely difficult to deal with. The internet is probably th...
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DevRel at HuggingFace
DX @ HuggingFace: Scaling open source ML community 200% a year with No OKRs & No Meetings
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Enslaving your interns for evil and profit
I should be in the middle of an interview right now. About fifteen minutes into it, in fact. About the part of my interview where we stop talking about awesome stuff the candidate has worked on in the past and start diving into writing some actual code. A stack with O(1) data access that also always knows its maximum…
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“Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
This is one of my favorite stories from all of my years in applying TOC. I use it frequently in my consulting work and again it's totally tr...
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Is management pressuring you to deliver unfinished code? (2020)
Case study of flawed conception due to requirements synthesis (slide 1 of 2)
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A Critique of “Don’t Fuck Up The Culture”
I enjoyed Brian Chesky’s recent post Don’t Fuck Up The Culture, where he proclaims to the employees of Airbnb the importance of culture in everything they do. I like Airbnb and it’…
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Working Too Much is Hurting Your Productivity
I’m very pleased with how it went. Ignite Philly was a ton of fun, had a bunch of great speakers,… Read more > “Go the Fuck Home” – my Ignite talk
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Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work
After years of working from coffee shops and couches, there's one thing I'm certain of: working remotely is hard. Incredibly hard. On paper, it sounds all rainbows and unicorns—you get to choose your own hours, you don't need to deal with a boss looming over your shoulder, and you can...
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What I've learned sending proposals to conferences
This year I sent out quite a few proposals to the majority of mobile conferences in Europe. Some ignored me, the others replied with automated rejections. However, some accepted and it was fun. Here is what I've learned on the way.
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Clear and Present Leadership
Great leaders communicate clearly and are involved
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An Interview with Zen Chief Architect Mike Clark
Zen is one of the most important microarchitectures in the history of the x86 ecosystem.
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Resumes are dangerous?
I've been interviewing engineers for a while now, and it seems the more interviews I do, the more I realize how many my initial assumptions about hiring were wrong. For example, take resumes. Initially, before every interview I'd carefully review resumes. I'd look at candidate's past
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Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
A question on Stack Overflow’s Software Engineering site caught our attention recently. It tries to come to terms with the impact of scrum on developers' ability to do a great job. The claim is a bold one: Scrum is turning good developers into average ones. Could that be true?