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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business) – charity.wtf
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, w…
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?”
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around…
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extr…
What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future - The Verge
The Jevons paradox originated in the coal era, but it has a lot to teach us about the future of self-driving cars.
Attribution as the foundation of developer trust - Stack Overflow
Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models - Stack Overflow
The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning
Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning.
Your company needs Junior devs
Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate
Doing support makes you a better engineer - by Ian Vanagas
What we've learned about providing support that doesn't suck (and does scale)!
Career Advice: Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck - Kellblog
“If you can’t explain it to a six year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein There are two types of people in business: Simplifiers: who make complex things simple Complexifiers: who make simple things complex Quick joke Question: What … Continue reading →
Do AI companies work? - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack
The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.
Simplify Your RAG Implementation Using Foundational Models | AWS Marketplace
Learn how to deploy production-ready vector storage capabilities, using tried-and-tested components already available in the tech stack of most organizations.
What Research Says About Cats: They’re Selfish, Unfeeling, and Environmentally Harmful
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate c
Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) - Christian Hollinger
A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.
The Road to Out-of-Process ReSharper: Asynchronous Typing | The .NET Tools Blog
Taking ReSharper out of process is a monumental undertaking. We covered the magnitude of this in a previous blog post and posted some updates on YouTrack along the way. In the simplest
American data spies will never care where the servers are
In the two years since the European Court of Justice invalidated the Privacy Shield concept, European companies have been scrambling to pretend to comply with the ruling, without changing anything consequential about how they use American internet services. The erroneous consensu
Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices
The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too.