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The Lone Developer Problem
If a single programmer builds something, it can be hard for others to maintain later.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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How to Evaluate Startup Offers
If you're joining a startup for money, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, but that doesn't mean that money shouldn't factor into your decision. You can build financial models around salaries and equity, and I'll show you how to do that below.
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On Being a Generalist
Should you be a specialist or a generalist developer? My take on the trade-offs of each path, why I chose to be a generalist, and what you gain and give up.
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The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate Decisions
The OODA Loop is a four-step process for making effective decisions in high-stakes situations. It involves collecting relevant information, recognizing potential biases, deciding, and acting, then repeating the process with new information. Read on to learn how to use the OODA Loop.
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Chrome killed my extension and won’t tell me why
We need to start building our defenses and forging relationships today. If we don’t unite and speak together, we will forever be powerless and at the mercy of our gatekeeper. We also open our forum to CWS staff, and extension advocates like @DotProto.
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Want to start hacking?
We asked one of our top 10 hacker contributors, Johan Carlsson, to share his novel approach to bug bounty hunting.
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The 40% Rule
I was catching up on Brad Feld’s blog this morning and saw that he had posted about the “40% rule” for SAAS companies. I was at the same board meeting as Brad and came away similarly impressed by the simplicity of the rule and the logic behind it. Here’s the 40% rule and it is […]
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How to Minimize Politics in Your Company
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
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Understand, Design, Build: A Framework for Problem-Solving
Discover how to create solutions using Lob’s framework for problem solving. Learn how to understand the problem, design an approach, and build a solution.
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Update on an Employee Matter
On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. Later that day and over the weekend, employees raised concerns about the circumstances of the separation. We took these concerns seriously.…
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The age of Scrum is over
Scrum has given us a lot, but its time for some conscious uncoupling
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"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday."
So, the US Secret Service has issued a requirement for software that can detect sarcasm in tweets . And lo, there was much rejoicing in the land, especially among post-doc researchers looking for grant money to pursue research in algorithmic applications of semiotics with a side-line in heuristic knowledge processing…
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One hiring filter that works
In a fairly popular blog post, Raganwald advocates against using various heuristics while filtering out resumes. For the most part, I agree with him. Since it's hard to find good programmers, false negatives are very costly compared to the cost of a false positive (a wasted interview). But I have …
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Ending the open office epidemic
Open offices are all the rage, but are they actually helping us get more done. We don't think that's the case.
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I was underpaid for years and I didn't know it
The recent hashtag #talkpay on Twitter reminded me of a situation I found myself in at a former job. I contracted with a local startup during my last few years of college, and they gave me a job offer the winter before I graduated. The $40,000/year offer would expire in a week, and I wasn''t prepared to try to get…
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The 40M dollar job
An extract from my book Just Fired. Still in progress...
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The Undercover Generalist
Since starting out as an independent contractor, I’ve always felt a tension between being a generalist software engineer, yet having to market myself as a specialist. I’ve been wanting to write about it for years and even have kept some notes for that purpose. Recently I came across an article by Ben Collins-Sussman…
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Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
Read the note to employees from our CEO Sundar Pichai about the memo that was circulated over the past week.