curiousgeek
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- February 22, 2015 (11y ago)
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- Shape Up: Stop running in circles and ship work that matters (basecamp.com)
- Scrum is a cancer (twitter.com)
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Is there a forum similar to HN where engineering managers and other people in the leadership ladder of companies discuss events and ideas?
- Using technical RFCs as a management tool (opensource.com)
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There’s a lot of talk about remote work nowadays. But has the lack of being able to be with co-workers harmed your career over the long run? Especially if the team is a mixture of remote and co-located people? How have…
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If you are a consultant, freelancer or in any other sense not a full time employee at a megacorp, how much time do you find yourself hustling for new work (i.e., networking with people, trying out new technologies,…
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Developers seem to like open source software and enjoy both using it and contributing back. If you are a product manager or in the business side of things (biz dev, sales etc), do you have an opinion on the increasing…
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If you are a software developer or if you work in a software related company, what's the age by you expect to be financially independent such that you no longer need to work solely for the money? What are some common…
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How big of a market do you feel developer tools are - IDEs, IDE plugins, build tools, monitoring tools etc? Is there space for small companies to build something and survive profitably here? How about if we extend the…
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In the recent "Electron is like Flash" thread it was claimed by many people that desktop apps are much easier to create and have better tooling than for the browser. Is it a good idea to use desktop technologies for…
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Are there any application or technical areas in software where new frameworks are not replacing old ones every couple of years? At the same time, inspite of that engineers still get time to solve hard problems and do…
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Considering how hard it is to build complex web apps, is it better to use traditional desktop technologies for in house web apps? Say Java Web start, for example?
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While many of us have reasonably fulfilling professional lives, there is still the need to make mortgage payments and other financial needs that will keep us grinding away at a day job for years to come. And thus we…
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I have heard a good deal about how powerful type systems can help you model your domain and its constraints effectively. I am looking for a good resource on this topic, similar to how there exist books about…
- ELLE's 2016 Women in Tech (elle.com)
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It's almost time for the monthly "Who is Hiring" thread! Considering how much time we spend discussing tech interviews here, wouldn't it be nice if each hiring post is accompanied by a line about the nature of the…
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If you look at the software technology landscape over the last 8-10 years, you find many innovations coming from companies that are using software to solve specific business problems: search, advertising, social…
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Cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Microsoft are providing more and more tools that allow companies to build applications with far fewer engineers to handle the backend. Does this imply a gloomy long term outlook…
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I keep reading about how hard it is to find talented developers in the Bay Area and how easy it is to find work if you happen to be one. I was wondering if any one has studied the issue (recruiting companies, HR…
- Federal judge rules OPT extension for STEM students invalid (insidehighered.com)
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In the last few years, the software industry has moved to deliver stuff over the Web or mobile, with the desktop slowly getting hollowed out. Reading the recent threads about Sublime Text and Atom is making me wonder if…