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On Pair Programming
A guide to effective pair-programming
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Always Be Journaling (2018)
This is a guest blog post from Brooke Kuhlmann. Enjoy. Dear developer, Of the many techniques you’ll pick up over the course of your career, one worth investing in early is journaling. Journa…
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Tiers of answers to half-baked questions
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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How I got the French Tech Visa to start my company in France
Three years ago, things were different. I didn’t know any French, I didn’t have a business, and I didn’t have a job.
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How to Be Helpful Online
Helping people online is difficult. We expect technical questions and discussions, but everyone involved are just people, so it doesn’t always go smoothly.
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Penetration testing and low-cost freelancing
Penetration testing is complex. For it to be successful, the tester needs to possess a variety of different abilities and skills. Some testers rely only on automated tools, while others focus more on manual analysis. While a creative and unconventional way of thinking is necessary, it is also important for the tester…
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Five Second Feedback
And they said it couldn’t be done!
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Clear and Present Leadership
Great leaders communicate clearly and are involved
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I Feel Like I Have No Real Interests; My Only Interest Is Making Money
I feel like I have no real interests or hobbies. My only interest is making money and the pursuit of any activity which can lead to that quickly. However, I feel like this attitude is robbing me of fulfillment and life experiences.
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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research suggests that as cybercrime has become dominated by pay-for-service offerings, the vast majority of day-to-day activity…
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MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has been forced to resign
President Stanley asked me this afternoon for my resignation. I do not agree with his decision, as serious issues of academic freedom and fr...
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What does happiness at work mean?
An unscientifical and personal approach.
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On Scaling Mental Models
No Newsletter Next Week I'll be on vacation in the Caribbean, sipping drinks and juggling for Hermit crabs. The Actual Thing I'm a vim user. I've used Vim...
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The gap between learning code and producing usable software
One of the unspoken areas about software development is building usable software.
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Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer
Everything I learned to become a senior software engineer. From good skills to have, to dealing with difficult engineering problems.
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You might as well be a great copy editor
Alas, our minds automatically fill in gaps and cover over mistakes when we read.
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What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old
This post has been edited to include (under Additional Thoughts) friends and acquaintances who have helped me immensely on my journey.
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Optimize Onboarding
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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Stop trying to make hard work easy
How to cope even when work is hard.
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Hopefully fair performance reviews for software developers
Note: if you're just looking for performance review templates and examples, head to the templates page [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/templates-as-inspiration-for-software-engineers/] to download them. I've had about a dozen performance reviews during my decade-long software engineering career. Some of them were…
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Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard?
The web is amazing and amazingly complex
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UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists
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