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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?

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 …

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 pe…

A similar thread from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018713

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 …

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…

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 profit…

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 i…

Author and computer science professor Cal Newport has written about the benefits of working on very cognitively demanding tasks in a mode of no interruptions or distractions, and p…

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 ge…

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?

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…

The article fails to mention that for many of these companies, selling software is not their business model. Their USP comes from the large piles of data they have, and the network…

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 …

I just meant it as a suggestion to companies on behalf of the users of this site. They are free to ignore it. Those who do provide the extra info might stand to gain. Let's see.

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 …

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 proble…

The cloud providers are providing a lot of software as well: relational databases, other kinds of data stores, load balancers and so on. They also provide you an integrated ecosyst…

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 …