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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,085 posts.
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MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions
Archived MIT Admissions blog post 'A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests,' published March 20, 2020. Preserved for historical context; not maintained as current admissions policy.
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Prisoners of Google Android development
A real Android release case study showing how a small API-level update caused production crashes, Google Play delays, and limited rollback options.
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Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
To be successful at digital transformation you need to optimize the key feedback loops in your software engineering organization
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Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
In Search of Silence Joel Spolsky is a well-respected figure in Silicon Valley. He created the popular Trello project manager software and is currently the ... Read more
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GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
Going from OSS to SaaS. Mistakes made and lessons learned from launching Sizzy - The Browser For Developers.
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GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
Lessons learned and mistakes made while turning an open-source project into a profitable SaaS product.
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Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt
What if tech debt wasn’t always an accident, caused by incorrect assumptions and unexpected circumstances? How would you spend a tech debt mortgage?
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Some mistakes I made as a new manager
the trough of zero dopamine • managing the wrong amount • procrastinating on hard questions • indefinitely deferring maintenance • angsting instead of asking
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If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive
One of the biggest realisations I’ve come to as part of my PhD, is how little people care about how I spend my time, they only care about what I am able to deliver. Yet in order to deliver, you need to finish. I was recently reading an article on this topic, and I think the advice can be best summed up as:
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One week of empathy training (2019)
I've spent a week cosplaying as a disabled user. And I hate it. A couple of months ago, I attended a private talk given by a disabled colleague of mine. "Everyone should believe disabled people's stories about accessibility problems," she said. "But, given that people don't, here's what I want you to do. Spend one…
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Saving a Project and a Company
I often get the question what it is exactly that I do for a living and usually I can’t really talk about it due to non-disclosure agreements and possible fall-out but in this case I got permission to do a write-up of my most recent job.
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Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well
How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before. Uber, however, had an official mentoring program. Almost
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Why do so few people major in computer science?
The number of people who majored in computer science in the US isn't much higher in 2015 than in 2005. Why do so few students major in computer science?
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Exit interviews are a trap
It’s tempting to air your grievances at your exit interview. Don’t. There’s almost no upside to speaking up, and tremendous potential downside. Avoid exit interviews if you can. If you must go, be totally bland; say nothing negative.
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The dangers of high status, low wage jobs
This tweet first reads as snarky, then insightful, but give it a few seconds and you’ll realize it’s pointing out a real problem. There are many reasons why an industry can become conce…
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The product manager role is a mistake
The popular model Software product companies aren’t usually started by people with a strong background in building software products. Those who most likely end up founding businesses are good at getting funding, and at understanding their target industry. They’ve been in their industry for a long time, know their…
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Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap
Last week I was speaking on what would have otherwise been a terrific panel. It was Frank Artale from Ignition, Tom Duterme from Groupon M&A, Andy Sack from Lighter Capital & Founder’s Co-op, and me talking about funding & exiting. The only thing that spoiled it was yet another guy in the tech scene putting forth yet…
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How to think in writing
The thought behind the thought
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I quit. The clankers won
The one where I pack up my bags.
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Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job
This is everything wrong with tech-startup culture, unreasonable expectations, and workaholism in one job posting, by a company with a massive audience that probably contains a very high percentage of young software developers.
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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
Seventeen recommendations from someone we think had a big impact with their career.
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