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Microsoft Teams is a red flag
Teams looks free because it comes in the bundle. The people paying for that choice are the ones stuck using it every day.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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Eastern European Guide to Writing Reference Letters
Excruciating. One phrase I often use to describe what it's like to read reference letters for Eastern European applicants to PhD and Master's programs in Cambridge. Even objectively outstanding students often receive dull, short, factual, almost negative-sounding reference letters. This is a result of (A)...
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Of Booze and Brogrammers
There's been a little bit of noise about the culture of "hard partying" at programmer conferences. Ryan complains about binge drinking , a...
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Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of Extreme Focus
“What are your top five priorities for this week?” “What are the top three objectives and key results you’re using to measure how you’re doing for the quarter?” These are questions that get thrown around by managers at work to help their teams prioritize and focus on achieving the most important accomplishments. In Pet
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Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
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Things that have a bigger impact than coding assistants
Here are 5 factors that make a bigger difference to software development outcomes than “A.I.” coding assistants, but teams don’t address because they’re “old news, gra…
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$26,679 in 24 hours: Stats from my latest book launch
Do you work on web applications? Then you’d probably learn a lot from my new book, Designing Web Applications. A few years ago I had no idea a day like last Wednesday was even possible. After all, everyone I knew worked jobs that paid a modest yearly salary. My wealthier friends made closer to $250/day […]
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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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10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
The "Ask HN: Who is hiring" monthly post on Hacker News, available on the first day of each month, provides a platform for users to share tech job listings for free. Analyzing 10 years of these posts with a Python script reveals significant shifts in hiring trends. This insight into the evolving tech job market can…
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Software engineering books to read and reread
Advanced Web Application Architecture allows you to spot what kind of code you're dealing with:
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How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human
Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every…
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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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Know how your org works, or how to become a more effective engineer
A few months ago, exhausted by a constant stream of people perennially disappointed about reward structures at companies, I made what…
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How To Fire A Co-Founder
The two biggest reasons startups fail is running out of money and founding team implosions. One Y Combinator founder I spoke with felt that about ~20% of startups in his batch blew up in the first 9-12 months after entering YC due to founder issues.
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A Review of “Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems”
There are many books available that deal with modernising legacy codebases. These books generally focus on how to go about understanding the legacy system, improving test coverage, introducing build automation, as well as strategies for refactoring or rearchitecting the codebase. However, Marianne Bellotti’s Kill It…
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How to add documentation to your product life cycle
An evaluation of different processes used to create documentation, and their advantages and disadvantages for the organization, the customer, and the writer.
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Joi Ito Named Director of the MIT Media Lab
Cambridge is booming with innovation, food, music, and history, highlighted in detail by the Cambridge Office for Tourism’s “Unpack my Cambridge” video series.
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Consider applying for grad school
9 reasons to apply to grad school right now, and 8 reasons not to.
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The case against CS master’s degrees
Around half of all software engineers are self-taught, One way to approximate this number is via the Stack Overflow developer survey . Another rough approximation comes from the fact that over the last decade, typically only 40-60K students graduated each year with a CS major from a US university, whereas the total…