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KISS or Die: Why Senior Engineers Fail at Startups

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:48:00 +0100

How senior engineers fail at startups: free infrastructure traps, custom code maintenance, and comfort choices. Four mental models to ship fast, not perfectly.

» hackernoon.com | hackernoon.com

Estudiante de Columbia suspendido por herramienta para hacer trampa en entrevistas recauda $5.3 millones para "hacer trampa en todo" [ING]

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:05:31 +0100

On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin “Roy” Lee announced he’s raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures for his startup,

» Charles Rollet | techcrunch.com

Onboarding bottleneck: final installment

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:50:10 +0100

Onboarding; Too long for new hires to reach full effectiveness

» martinfowler.com | martinfowler.com

15,000 GH stars in a year: how we did it 🤩

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:17:09 +0100

It has only been a bit more than a year since we decided to raise funding in the quest of building…

» DEV Community | dev.to

The 12 Most Read Stories Published on HackerNoon in 2021 (So Far)

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 13:22:38 +0100

People always seem so surprised when they find out that anybody can submit a tech story for consideration to get published on HackerNoon.com. 🤷

» hackernoon.com | hackernoon.com

10 Steps that will help you turn your idea into a product. Part 1

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:41:00 +0100

Hi Devs! Do you remember how you got the 💎idea and want to make it but don’t know how to approach…

» DEV Community | dev.to

Yelp Early Days with Michael Stoppelman

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:01:09 +0100

Yelp.com is a crowdsourced review platform focused on restaurants and local businesses. Originally created as an email-based recommendation service, Yelp re-launched in its modern form in 2005. At the time, its focus on user-created reviews and social interactions was fairly…

» SE Daily | softwareengineeringdaily.com

Billionar Dollar App Ideas

Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:23:50 +0100

This is my first post and these are just some crazy ideas to think about. Let your imagination flow a…

» DEV Community | dev.to

10 ways to ruin your start-up’s culture, in cartoons

Sat, 07 Nov 2015 13:28:00 +0100

» Liz Fosslien and Mollie West | qz.com

The programmer’s price

Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:12:00 +0100

Finally, Bradley received an e-mail from 10x, a talent company. 10x was started by two music and entertainment managers, Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg, who for the past nineteen years have represented rock stars, including John Mayer and Vanessa Carlton. Recently, in the wake of the digital revolution and the music industry’s implosion, Solomon and Blumberg have begun serving as agents for technologists. 10x claims to represent digital ”rock stars”; the company’s name comes from the idea, well established in the tech world, that the very best programmers are superstars, capable of achieving ten times the productivity of their merely competent colleagues. In HBO’s ”Silicon Valley,” a self-effacing character named Big Head compliments his friend’s coding skills by saying, ”Richard’s a 10xer. I’m, like, barely an xer.”