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Planning is for doing
Welcome from Hacker News!
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Every modeler is supposed to be a great Python programmer
This post is by Phil Price, not Andrew. I’ve had a run of luck ever since I left my staff scientist position at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to become a freelance consultant doing statistical modeling and forecasting, mostly related to electricity consumption and prices: just as I finished a contract, another one…
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Only solve one new problem at a time
Ben Nadel discusses one of the lessons learned from 10 years of CodePen: solve only problem at a time - a message worth amplifying.
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I have quit my job
Several years ago, I decided to quit freelancing and do a day job. The job would pay much less but I was struggling with mental health (ADHD). On my therapist's suggestion, I decided to give the job thing a try. It worked wonderfully, my struggles with discipline are a thing of past. Or so I believe.
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Software Mise En Place
I am really, really into cooking. In the heady days of 2016 I regularly threw dinner parties for 30+ people. These days I don't hate myself that much, but...
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Open Source and Saying “No”
An Open Source project can balloon to extreme sizes and then lose purpose of why it started - a rant.
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How boring should your team's codebases be
Thoughts on how to keep the novelty in a team at the correct level for easy onboarding
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Deadlines are pointless – what to do instead
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Your work matters – Build your schedule accordingly
About halfway through Laura Vanderkam’s sharp new productivity guide, Tranquility by Tuesday, we’re introduced to Elizabeth, an education professor who, worried about her ticking tenure ... Read more
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The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions
On how software that survives first encounter with production tends to live longer than we think it should.
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How to work with me
A user guide for David Bauer. About this document If you start working with a new person, wouldn’t it be nice if you had some sort of user guide that gives you a basic understanding of how to work with them? This document is exactly that. It captures my guiding principles, how I work as […]
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Being a Solo Software Entrepreneur at 40
A tale of growth, responsibilities, and limits.
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Talk like a systems engineer: Yaks all the way down
Professional niches have – time immemorial – built their own special dialects and languages, sometimes using this as an…
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Heroku: Core Impact
It’s been a rough month for Heroku. On April 15th, they opened a security notice that’s been active ever since – the status page, designed for incidents measured in hours rather than days or weeks, dutifully reads off a duration of “478 hours, 9 minutes” 1 .
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Brandon Sanderson’s advice for doing hard things
A reader recently sent me a video of a keynote speech, delivered in 2020 by the popular fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson. The title of the ... Read more
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Why is every layoff 10-15%?
Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023
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Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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The harsh truth of video games programming
I've been interested in games programming since I started learning programming as a teenager more than 25 years ago (gasp!) I started with Qbasic and Gorillas.bas, but never understood the code. Of course, I didn't get anywhere at the time, beyond very basic games. I wrote a simple Shoot
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Java Development on an Apple M1 – A One Year Review
Collection of pitfalls, tips & tricks, and workarounds for Java development on an Apple M1 processor (ARM64): Testcontainers, Docker, Testing
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Apple's feedback mechanism is broken
Apple's feedback system is fundamentally broken, and they don't seem to care.
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Ten years against division of labor in software
"Software libraries suck. Here's why, in a sentence: they promise to be abstractions, but they end up becoming services. An abstraction frees you from thinking about its internals every time you use it. A service allows you to never learn its internals. A service is not an abstraction. It isn't 'abstracting' away the…
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Why don’t we have a strategy?
The problem isn't that people can't think strategically.
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Grad students at Northeastern pushed back against invasive digital surveillance
This is a wild and hopeful story: grad students at Northeastern successfully pushed back against invasive digital surveillance in their workplace, through solidarity, fearlessness, and the bright light of publicity. It's a tale of hand-to-hand, victorious combat with the "shitty technology adoption curve."
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Software Engineering: The Soft Parts
Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering...
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Code colocation is king
A simple principle to help structure code better
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Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
Over the last few years, I’ve grown from a fine to a good operator.