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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (2011)
Starting in mid-2004 and until the end of 2006, I worked at a small DNS and DHCP software company called Nominum . These days Nominum offer...
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Why to Not Write a Book
A discussion of why I don’t intend to turn Gwern.net into a book, and how trying to write a book can harm writers.
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Switching to a four-day workweek (2021)
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How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups
On October 26, 2010, Shereef Bishay - of BetterMeans and the recently launched ClassParrot - told the HackerNews community about some copywriting work I did for him:
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Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing
If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.
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My Emotions as a CEO
I stepped down as CEO in October 2020 after nine years at CircleUp. I will be a CEO again. There were parts of the role I loved and it was the best job I ever had. During my transition, I’ve had ti…
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How to join a team and learn a codebase (2020)
I have switched teams more often than I have had to implement an AVL tree, and you can guess which one of those two was taught in school. I wish someone had taught me how to join a new team! While learning a new codebase can be daunting, I've found a few things that work for me.
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Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
Last year, I completed 20 years in professional software development. I wanted to write a post to mark the occasion back then, but couldn't find the time. This post is my attempt to make up for that omission. In fact, I have been involved in software development for a little longer than 20 years. Although I had my…
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Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years
When I joined Google full-time to run Cloud in December 2015, I told my family and friends that it would be for two years. Now, after an unbelievably stimulating and productive three years, it’s time to turn to the passions I’ve long had around mentoring and education.
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How to conduct a good programming interview
Any software engineer who has ever looked for a job has had the interview experience: being locked in a small room for an hour, asked to write code to solve some arbitrary programming task, while being grilled by one or two interviewers whether or why the code they've written is correct.
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My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs
My first job was both a blessing and a nightmare. It taught me more about the world than about software development, but those lessons were invaluable.
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Being good at coding competitions correlates negatively with job performance
A couple of days ago I watched a How Computers Learn talk by Peter Norvig. In this talk, Peter talked about how Google did machine learning and at one point he mentioned that at Google they also applied machine learning to hiring. He said that one thing that was surprising to him was that being a winner at…
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Small Teams
Patrick Collison has a great list of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things. Inspired by that, I created a page of impressive things accomplished by small teams.
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Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected
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How to Hire and Build a Remote Team
Since 2011, Zapier has grown from three founders cramped in a small apartment to a team of over 350 around the world. Read more
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On a great interview question
Between 2010 and 2019 I interviewed dozens of Software Engineer candidates at Google. Almost always I asked the same interview question…
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You will never “fix it later”
Recently I approved a pull request from a colleague, that had the following description: “That’s a hacky way of doing this, but I don’t have time today to come up with a better im…
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Should I Resign from My Full Professor Job to Work Fulltime on Cocalc?
News and updates about CoCalc
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