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Governments are scared of software.
Jon Evans / Novelist
Software
Governments
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In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.
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Differences
Theory
Closer
Eliminate
Slowly
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A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.
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Mediocre
Negative
Productivity
Bad Ones
Easily
Ultimately
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I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up.
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Software
Crippling
Evolving
Possibly
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.
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California
Circles
Enlightened
Uber
Acknowledged
Liberal
Universally
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I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.
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Developers
Journalist
Software
Engineer
Manager
Novelist
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It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected.
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Boast
Comprehensive
Collected
Deepest
Facebook
Probable
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To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.
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Life
Society
Abuse
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Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.
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Men
Animal
Pain
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I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here weekly TechCrunch column; and I still find the time to work on my own software side projects.
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Employed
Projects
Software
Time Work Travel
Column
Full-Time
Work Time Travel
Happily
Weekly
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Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.
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Both Sides
Candidates
Evaluate
Sides
Waste
Bad Way
Generate
Waste Time
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The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.
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Machines
Misfits
Apart
Disproportionate
Geeks
Nerds
Tech
Weirdos
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Every time you log in to Facebook, every time you click on your News Feed, every time you Like a photo, every time you send anything via Messenger, you add another data point to the galaxy they already have regarding you and your behavior.
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Add
Behavior
Data
Galaxy
News
Time Your Anything
Click
Feed
Photo
Every Time
Facebook
Log
Messenger
Point
Regarding
Send
Via
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Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.
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Developers
Dislike
Good Way
Important Work
Work Good People
Work Good Your
Basically
Manager
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To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.
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Generous
Succeed
Awesome
Businesses
Efforts
Expectation
Strangers
Tech
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I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.
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Gates
Innovative
Interesting
Inventor
Mega
Unworthy
Bill
Bill Gates
Dumbest
Field
Hungarian
Notation
Rode
Status
The History Of
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The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.
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Irony
Management
Timely
Actual
Correctly
Exactly What
Manager
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As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a broad swathe of jobs outright - from burger-flippers to diagnosticians - and atomize many others from full-time positions into gigs performed by many fungible workers. Tech, in short, will eat jobs.
Jon Evans / Novelist
Jobs
Courtesy
Density
Gigs
Hardware
Months
Software
Workers
Broad
Doubles
Eats
Short
Full-Time
Outright
Performed
Positions
Replace
Tech
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