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I'll start by saying "Agile Project Management Is Farce and does more harm than good". I've been researching tech turnover for a bit now, with a focus on programmer turnover, and with no reservations I can say that…

Good developers who are open minded and free spirited don't trust employers. This is the conclusion I have drawn after spending far to much time researching articles and academic papers theorizing why tech turnover is…

I see library after library, and tool after tool released to help minimize the massive boilerplate associated with react and to help manage front-end state. Does anyone else feel like a good GUI designer over React…

When I was younger I learned to program because I wanted to write a program. I never wanted to "Learn C" I just kept on reading chapters of K&R so that I could write my program (Just a small game). Now, decades later, I…

I've seen articles breaking down the science of white supremacist shooting. I've seen articles on the lack of diversity in tech. They seem to get flagged pretty frequently by hacker news. Why? Do they get flagged…

"Wow this is great" to random (new) hacker news articles how many up votes would I get by the end of a month. Answer: 1027.

What you you think about the no resume needed, just show us your github account job posts. I think its a bit new age and refreshing but I'd like to think that experience does count for something these days.

If I assume everything I read from a news source is an advertisement how close would I be to the truth. The article about sharks just before a shark movie is released; the article about medical practice that…

Not long ago I was looking for a new position. I am a software engineer. I was not getting many hits at first and I suspected the reason was my resume. I tried the A/B approach to find what configuration of my resume…

Ever since I was young, I am now an older man, I have experienced repeat detrimental and common behavioral patterns among programmers and at tech companies in general. Here I would like to outline my observations, in…

... are there countless abstractions and programming language mechanisms that bounce you around the text in ways that Go TO could have never dreamed of. I rarely spend time thinking about stuff like this but sometimes,…

I've taken many coding assessment tests in the past; I've designed a few; and now I'm deciding if I should issue code tests to my own candidates. Here are the concerns I have with code tests. 1) Code tests are generally…