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Take pride or fuck it
The blank, unblemished untitled.txt shimmering in your code editor can mean only one thing. It’s new feature time.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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Incident management at Google – adventures in SRE-land
Learn how how incident management is done inside Google's own SRE team.
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How much have tech layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments?
How much have 2022 layoffs impacted engineers? We combed through and tagged dozens of layoff lists. The results may surprise you.
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You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)
Lacking Shared Conception, Creative Staff’s moral can quickly plummet
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It's Never Too Early to Fire
I have never fired anyone too early. How many founders have been in the position of hiring a senior executive — having gone through all the interviews, reference checks, board approvals, and negotiations — only to have doubts creep in all too soon after they start? Your hire doesn’t seem to be delivering on the...
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A useful productivity measure?
In my new role as VP of Engineering , there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?”
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The culture of rejection in computer science publications
Unlike most disciplines, in Computer Science, conference publications dominate over journals, and program committees carry out the bulk of the peer reviewing. Serving on a PC is a yeoman’s service, and the community owes them a debt of gratitude. However, I believe that a toxic culture has emerged. This blog is a call…
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The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993)
25 recent entries The horn of the Robert Smalls A difficulty in race-switching the Dukes of Hazzard On futile explanations Richard Blair Race-switching The Dukes of Hazzard Greek plural Erbaut Improved English-language month names I fix a thirty-year-old mistake Minced oaths? On the monobosom Partly about pie More…
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How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)
How to answer questions in a helpful way
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The Tools of a Blind Programmer
The Life of a Completely Blind Programmer in the Netherlands
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Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit
2 weeks notice is the gold standard when quitting. But giving more notice (a lot more notice) actually has a lot of benefits.
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My journey through the American immigration system as a computer engineer
It sounds surreal to even say it out loud, but I’ve been living in America for the majority of my life, ever since I was a teenager. And for 18 of those years, I was legally a transient – hop…
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Evolving Reddit’s Workforce
Earlier this year, Reddit had to evolve with the unexpected challenge of going 100% remote. Our employees, or Snoos as we’re known, rose to the occasion, a
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Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line employees
Eligible hourly employees have access to prepaid college tuition, GED and high school diplomas, language programs and industry certifications.
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
What I use them for and what I don't
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My best techniques for evaluating character
These methods have helped me enormously—and can save you much heartache and anxiety
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Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)
Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin. We split up into small discussion groups and talked about things related to managing teams and being a senior individual contributor (IC), and going back and forth throughout your career.
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A Eulogy for DevOps
The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?
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Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation
Guest post by Niya Dragova, co-founder of Candor
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I’m Joining LinkedIn
I'm very excited to share that I've joined LinkedIn as a full-time employee.
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