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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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Technical Interviews Make Me Cry
First, let me clarify one thing for those of you who've never dated me: I cry. A lot. When I can't get my vagrant box setup correctly afte...
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Coding skill vs. employee skill
DRUPAL Bootstrap Upgrade: MIKE IT
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Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run.
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Applied Machine Learning Is a Meritocracy
When making a start in a new field it is common to feel overwhelmed. You may lack confidence or feel as though you are not good enough or that you are lacking some prerequisite. You will explore these issues in this post and learn that such feelings can lead to actions that can consume a […]
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Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology
I was recently recommended as a pinch-hitter keynote speaker for a Linux conference by a friend who wasn’t going to be able to present due to a scheduling conflict. She put me in touch with the conference organizers, and they reached out to me with the exciting email subject “We want YOU to keynote [conference…
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How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits
A behind the scenes look at engineering crits at Figma.
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How to excel in tech without learning to code
Technical literacy is key to career success, even for non-engineers. Learn how to master the tools of your trade and build a solid tech foundation.
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Cannot Measure Productivity
It is impossible to measure the effectiveness of tools and techniques in software development because we have no way of measuring our output, and thus our productivity.
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How Universities Work, or: What I Wish I’d Known As a Freshman
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“Why do you work in security instead of something more lasting?”
This post grew out of a friend on Facebook asking (I paraphrase) "why do you spend your time on security instead of using your brainpower f...
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Why I'm leaving Harvard (for Google)
The word is out that I have decided to resign my tenured faculty job at Harvard to remain at Google. Obviously this will be a big change in ...
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Software Development: Mistakes I Made
Recently I revealed the secret of academic success. This was so popular (16000 views!) that I decided I would follow up with the secret of software success – success in producing software. No…
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Listen to Understand
You can captivate someone not by what you say, but by how you listen.
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How to get a job at a kick-ass startup (for programmers)
When I finished college, I was incredibly naive when it came to finding a great job. I knew that I...
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Do literally anything
Feeling overwhelmed? Don't know where to start? Do literally anything.
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Tips for work-life balance
My reply crossed the threshold for a blog post, so I'm posting it here to be consistent with my own principles on academic blogging .
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Amazon doubling down on return to office
The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office policy last month, Amazon just made it clear that the policy is going ahead.
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Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023)
For basically as long as I can remember, I have been a staunch defender of permissive licenses over the more copyleft variety. I want you to use things I've written. On top of that I don't believe it's my place to force you to then open source things you have written that expand upon my source code. Hence my extensive…
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You’re working in the wrong place if you’re working in an open office
Open offices misunderstand psychology and design
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Exercise More to Hack Better
Wherever the image came from of a productive hacker being a vitamin D deficient couch potato, fueled entirely by Ramen and Jolt, it needs to die.
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