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Meeting everyone on a new team
Strategic technology leader
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Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice
When I ask people at trendy big tech companies why algorithms quizzes are mandatory, the most common answer I get is something like "we have so much scale, we can't afford to have someone accidentally write an O(n^2) algorithm and bring the site down" 1 . One thing I find funny about this is, even though a decent…
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I Worked for a Criminal Organization
That time I was employed by a criminal organization I was employed by Micfo for several months, I quickly determined that they were shady and invovled in illegal practices. I did not quit because of that, I quit because I felt unwanted, by HR and Management. Later they would ask me to come back. This is the full…
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Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India
A look into why most of the Hacktoberfest PRs are “manufactured” in India
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Cognitive Biases in Software Development
A couple of years ago, I started my first job as a programmer. On the first day, I entered the office, sat in my new chair, turned on the computer, checked out a project from the version control system and opened it in IDE. The first-ever piece of the code I saw looked like that: // TODO it works, but it's ugly…
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Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer
My name is Molson Hart. I’m the CEO of a consumer products company I founded 10 years ago, called Viahart. We design and distribute toys…
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What is expected of a engineering manager?
Husband, software engineer at Nubank , computer scientist, coffee taster, book reader, stand up coder
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How to write technical posts so people will read them (2019)
One of today’s best bloggers in the functional programming space is Chris Penner . Despite this, Chris is criminally underrated—nobody I talk to seems to know of his work. Go check him out as soon as you finish reading this post!
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Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game
Expressive code in C++
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Build versus Buy
A few years ago I was working on a contract negotiation with Splunk, and we kept running into what felt like a pretty unreasonable pricing structure. They wanted some number of millions of dollars for a three year license, which felt like a high price to pay for roughly thirty-two ascii characters in a particular…
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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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How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)
How to answer questions in a helpful way
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Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker
Remote work is sold as a win for workers. But it also makes you easier to outsource, reduces your job to a metric, and can stall your career growth.
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Is revenue model more important than culture?
HN Discussion Here: I always loved getting problems of the type “What is the limit as x approaches infinity” type in high-school/college. You’re given an equation (of the classic y=x format), and a…
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Hire people who give a shit
A simple formula for success
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You’re not writing code, you’re solving problems
If you go beyond software, and frameworks, beyond test suites and sprints and Jira tickets, you will always find a problem that needs to be solved.
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Little Tasks, Little Trust
Why Delegating Responsibilities Beats Micromanagement
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"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs
Tough questions to ask your remote employer who gives you Cost Of Living based compensation and some thoughts on how remote compensation will work in the future
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Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
The long-time host of PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died this week at the age of 85. In this age of news as entertainment and opinion as news, Lehrer seems like one o
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Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017)
For the past few weeks, I’ve been obsessed with improving my productivity. During this time, I’ve continuously been monitoring the amount of work I’ve been getting done and have been experimenting with changes to make myself more productive. After only two months, I can now get significantly more work done than I did…
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Why does writing matter in remote work?
In remote work, we communicate primarily through writing. We send messages in Slack. We document projects in Notion. We send meeting invites with a written description of the purpose. We’re writing all the time. Many organizations are working from home at the moment. Thus, writing is even
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Unifying the Technical Interview
Aisha’s hands rattle you. They float gently in front of her shoulders, wrists cocked back. One sways cheerfully as she banters with the hiring manager—her lacquered nails a cyan mosaic over ochre palms. They flit, then hover momentarily as the two women arrange lunch. When the door closes, Aisha slaps her fingertips…
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Why you should write
Be a creator, not just a consumer.
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If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a question
Let's revisit one of the most humiliating (and expensive) moments of my life. It happened a decade ago and even today I cringe and seethe when I think about it.
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How to take meeting notes
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My Engineering Axioms
A few months back I gave a talk in which I shared a list of my personal engineering axioms – things that, over the years, I've come to think of as generally true and useful to have in mind when writing code, building things, and working with others.
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Working from home – things no one talks about
Timo Zimmermann talking about software engineering, leading teams, consulting and start ups.
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