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Dammit LinkedIn, I'm a college dropout (2009)
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Asshole Driven Development
[Since this was originally posted commenters have added 100+ addition methods – see the comments below. There’s more commentary on reddit] The software industry might be the world’…
Focus
The best time to stop a distraction is before it starts. The second best time is now.
Agile Scrum: Delivering Broken Software Since 1991
Update: This is quite a long article. If you’re looking for a quick read, it breaks down a bit like this:
Puppy (or, details on Joel Spolsky's retirement from blogging)
At right, a picture of Taco, a ten-week-old siberian husky puppy who moved in with us last week! Some of you may have seen my final column in Inc., in which I announce my retirement from blogging …
Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in
Take a look into Front’s Journey to get into Y Combinator.
I quit contracting 6 months ago
Superhuman Docs doc by Michael Forrest
When Smart People are Bad Employees
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
Top 20 Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years
Sustainable logistics prioritises eco-friendly supply chain management through resource optimisation, renewable energy, and green packaging, enhancing brand image and meeting consumer demand.
An Android Side Project
I want to be able to write apps for my phone in in something other than the Java language; for example Ruby or Python. This isn’t one of the things my group at Google has asked me to look at, but I think it’s worth doing and worth some of my time. I’m writing this today because I’m amused by the contrast with the…
Get Paid to Contribute to Urllib3
Announcing urllib3's bounty program The urllib3 team is excited to announce the start of our bounty program! We’ve recognized that one of the biggest challenges to shipping v2.0 is not having e...
Joining Google to better explain search
When I retired from search journalism in June, I had no idea what I would be doing next. I just knew I was ready for a break and something different from what I had been doing for so long. That something different has arrived: I’m joining Google as of Monday.
Welcome Jared
I’m delighted to share that Jared Friedman is joining YC as a full-time partner. Jared co-founded Scribd, the world’s online library, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2006. He was the CTO there. Jared has also been an investor in more than 30 YC companies. Before Scribd, he studied computer science at Harvard…
CS50, Harvard’s Largest Class Expands Its Line Up of Courses
CS50 launches three new courses that go beyond the original course and teach Python, Javascript, React, and Game Development
Managing Technical Quality in a Codebase
If there’s one thing that engineers, engineering managers, and technology executives are likely to agree on, it’s that there’s a crisis of technical quality. One diagnosis and cure is easy to identify: our engineers aren’t prioritizing quality, and we need to hire better engineers or retrain the ones we have. Of…
How Ryan Singer from 37signals builds products
Articles and Podcasts on Customer Service, AI and Automation, Product, and more.