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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 363 posts.
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Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer”
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Employee #1: Reddit
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How to make Slack less bad for you
Slack claim to be in the business of "making your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive". We’re about to be cynical, so let’s acknowledge that this claim is probably at least par...
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“My position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies was eliminated”
This website is developed, maintained, and hosted by Sal Soghoian as a service to the user automation community.
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Last minute tips for YC Interviewees
Essays, investment announcements and news from the Initialized team and the founders we back.
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Five Years of Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a free, self-directed, educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming, whether they've been coding for three decades or three months.
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Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
In this blog post we caught up with Chris Jones, a Site Reliability Engineer on Google App Engine for the past three-and-a-half years and SRE at Google for almost 9 years, to find out more about running production systems at Google. Chris is also one of the editors of S ite Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs…
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An A/B Testing Story
A successful test for Appointment Reminder, and how you can get started testing more.
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Who's on call?
Implementation of an on-call policy requires answering precisely these questions: who is responsible for on-call duties for an application/service, and how is that responsibility defined? More succinctly, who owns on-call?
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How to Worry Less About Being a Bad Programmer
I just came across another manifestation of imposter syndrome, in the form of “Am I really a developer or just a good googler?”
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To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of [detainee]
You may or may not know that the incidence and relapse rates of schizophrenia in African-Caribbean males in Western countries has been…
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I don’t belong in tech
Trying to find my place in the place I love, and constantly failing
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Visualizing a Job Search Or: How to Find a Job as a Software Engineer
It wouldn’t be a new job without some data porn and a blog post, would it?
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Don’t prematurely obsess on a single “big problem” or “big theory”
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. (Susan Ertz, “Anger in the Sky”) There is a particularly dangerous occupational haz…
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Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
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Too Many Knobs
Xu2015 Tianyin Xu, Long Jin, Xuepeng Fan, Yuanyuan Zhou, Shankar Pasupathy, and Rukma Talwadker: " Hey, you have given me too many knobs!: understanding and dealing with over-designed configuration in system software ". Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering …