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Marc Hedlund on what managers produce 25 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
What do you make as a manager? Marc Hedlund on the less immediately tangible but in many ways more rewarding products of being a manager. The difference between good jobs and bad jobs is the manager ...
Paul Ford explains Jeff Bezos 24 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am
One of the rules of modern life is that you can’t choose your billionaires; they choose you. Paul Ford explains why Jeff Bezos would purchase the Washington Post
UK government detains Glenn Greenwald’s partner 19 Aug 2013 | 03:02 am
Glenn Greenwald’s partner was returning to Brazil by way of London when he was detained under a terrorism law. He was then questioned not about terrorist plots but about Greenwald’s reporting work and...
Cheating on the Internet is just cheating 12 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
For those who grew up with the internet, the people they know online and the people they know offline are often one and the same. We interact all day on Facebook with friends we first met face-to-face...
Monoculture and consensus 8 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am
In response to my previous post on engineering culture, Bill Higgins asked in the comments: Recently I worked on a project with multiple sites, and one of our toughest problems was the vast cultural ...
Seven signs of dysfunctional engineering teams 29 Jul 2013 | 09:49 am
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Heart of Darkness this week, read by Kenneth Branagh. It’s fantastic. It also reminds me of some jobs I’ve had in the past. There’s a great passage in which Ma...
The risks of a dead man’s switch 22 Jul 2013 | 02:04 am
Bruce Schneier considers Edward Snowden’s dead man’s switch, which will trigger the wide release of his trove of documents if he’s killed: I would be more worried that someone would kill me in order ...
Defining data engineering 21 Jul 2013 | 09:49 am
Last year I started working in the world of Big Data, and at the time, I didn’t know that “data science” and “data engineering” were separate things. At some point, I looked at what my team is working...
The criminalization of binary downloads 16 Jul 2013 | 11:16 pm
Why code sharing sites are eliminating binary downloads Simon Phipps reports on a trend I wasn’t aware of — sites for code sharing like GitHub and Google Code eliminating binary downloads. The risk o...
Worse places to live than where you live 15 Jul 2013 | 10:07 am
Today’s New York Times had an amazing slate of stories that made it clear that there are worse places to live: China is in the midst of a program to resettle millions of rural peasants to cities wher...
