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From Here On Out, Do What You Love
Thoughts & insights from the team behind Briggsby.
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When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log over a resume any day.
In our continuing effort to allow awesome developers to demonstrate their …awesomeness… we’ve added the ability to include your GitHub projects on your Careers 2.0 profile.
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Demoted
Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen.
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The plumber programmer
I called someone a plumber programmer the other day. The person I was speaking to didn't realize that "plumber programmer" is a term of great respect. The plumber is often the most experienced programmer on a team. As with literal plumbing, software plumbing connects things together. It deals with things other people…
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Portrait of a N00b
Well, the typing issue is a thorny one. I think as a general rule, the reddit types are too eager to denounce it immediately and tell us all that Ruby is the answer, or whatever it is this week, and the Java purists and academics make the opposite argument. Coming from someone from a dynamic background, I didn't use a…
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How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How I've started to contribute to open source
A couple of weeks ago, I read a post by Brandon Hays called '“Why I still don't contribute to open source”:http://brandonhays.com/blog/2011/05/03/why-i-still-dont-contribute-to-open-source/' wherein Brandon lays out his reasons for not yet having contributed to any OSS projects.
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(1) Keep it simple, (2) make it something you'd actually use, (3) iterate.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost
This is in response to this blog post made at Experts Exchange. Whilst I agree on a few of the points you have made, as a user and a promot...
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Slide Design for Developers
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO
News is going around that Yahoo! is looking for a new CEO . I have no idea if this is true or not, but if it is, I would like to announce that I’m ready, willing, and insane enough to go long and go big with Yahoo! as your new CEO. Yahoo! showed glimmers of hope when it bought Flickr and Delicious. It’s been a bastion…
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Timeboxing: You Will Work Like Never Before
Don’t miss the latest posts Learn to Remember Everything: The memory palace technique or Remembering Facts: USING Mental associative chains If you are an avid self-improvement reader, you know already what timeboxing is. But maybe you don’t harness all its potential For the rest, timeboxing is a time management…
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So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs
There are a couple of broad categories of programmers working on video game teams. If programmer is your player class, then the following types are your spec. Programmers are all warlocks and mages…
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What Stops Female Founders?
The lack of women in tech startups seems a perennially hot topic. I’m keenly aware of this problem because I see so many founders, and so few of them are women. I’m delighted to have 6 women at...
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Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research
tl;dr If you want to ship high quality code, you should invest in more than one of formal code review, design inspection, testing, and quality assurance. Testing catches fewer bugs per hour than human inspection of code, but it might be catching different types of bugs.
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The 2-step trick to getting sweet-ass job referrals
I talked with an uber-talented 27-year old the other night. She’s been working at the same startup for 3.5 years, helping it grow from 7 employees to over 100. While she started as a utility infielder, helping out with everything that needed doing, she’s now become a sophisticated online marketer. She’s ready to try…
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Why I quit my job
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