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Engineers often overestimate how bad the “greenfielder” is for the business. In most cases you aren’t selling an elegant technical solution, you’re just selling a solution . And if…

And it’s (often comically, always depressingly) necessary for this exact reason. In a recent interview my company conducted, the candidate clearly submitted code they had not writt…

> They’ve focused a lot on IQ and personality — both constructs which were designed to be robust, i.e. hard to change, over time. I thought this was an interesting observation that…

Do you disagree with Coca Cola calling coke “the real thing”, too? It’s marketing. Read the qualification as “good”, and trust it as much as any marketing.

There’s not one “tech industry”, there’s just a bunch of companies and people, all unique, all flawed in their own ways. So join a company, and if you don’t like it, quit and try a…

It’s the “everyone doing awesome stuff is privileged” trope. Ignore it. Agreed re: Zig!

Managing navigation state via the familiar URL-based approach. You have to manage “where am I in the app?” somehow.

I think it’s reasonable to distinguish reading a book and listening to a book. I don’t particularly think one is better or worse, but certainly they are objectively different. My s…