Expensify has an unusual technology stack in many ways. For example, we don’t use DNS internally — just configuration-managed /etc/hosts files — and it works great . Similarly, we only make limited us

This is a (very late) reply to Patrick McKenzie's " Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice ". I find much of his advice very sensible, and it might be very helpful to someone in the

Jaana B. Dogan Apr 21 · 19 min read A large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated over time, but along the wa

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Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success. Why read advice from someone who’s had a mediocre career? But there’s massive sampling bias. All this advice wi

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Trying something again My grand experiment at working at a $BIGCO has ended. It was fruitful – I made more money than I ever have, and the name recognition was nice the first few times someone asked w

Jun 6th 2020 Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today , our daily newsletter . For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our coronavirus hub T HE FI

The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mi

I It’s more than two millennia since the philosopher Socrates argued that humility is the greatest of all virtues. His timeless observation was that the wisest people are the first to admit how little

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Suggestions on spending it on things that matter and avoiding things that don't “Well, that’s the thing right - Time is the only real currency we have” . This was the singularly brilliant summation of

I often struggle to explain what it means to be part of a high-functioning software team. Sure, there are mountains of literature, and an entire genre of LinkedIn thought leadership that professes all

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Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Dakar, Senegal, 15 May 2020: ‘Senegal is in a good position because its Covid-19 response planning began in earnest in January.’Photograph: John Wessels/AFP via Getty

It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of yo

This post originally appeared as an opinion piece in the Washington Post. It’s adapted from a longer article, which you can read here . It’s entirely understandable that the national conversation has

When $FAMOUS_COMPANY launched in 2010, it ran on a single server in $TECHBRO_FOUNDER’s garage. Since then, we’ve experienced explosive VC-funded growth and today we have hundreds of millions of daily

One of the questions I get asked the most these days is when the world will be able to go back to the way things were in December before the coronavirus pandemic. My answer is always the same: when we

2020-03-10 Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupid

Contents Preamble I’m not a 10x developer . I haven’t been building websites since the days of dialup. I picked up programming a few years out of college because I was at a dead end in my career in go

June 24, 2020 June 24, 2020 Google blew a ten-year lead. Back when there were rumors of Google building an operating system, I thought “ Lol.” Then I watched then-PM Sundar Pichai announce Chrome OS .

I. Vox asks What Went Wrong With The Media’s Coronavirus Coverage? They conclude that the media needs to be better at “not just saying what we do know, but what we don’t know”. This raises some import

A novelist friend introduced me to a productivity technique I’ve found effective. I spread it to my friends, and now to my horror management types have discovered it. A friend just told me he told it

Writing is hard, but don’t overlook the difficulty — and the importance — of editing your own work before letting others see it. Here’s how. Credit... George Wylesol The secret to good writing is good

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[Epistemic Status: Scroll to the bottom for my follow-up thoughts on this from months/years later.] Early this year, Conor White-Sullivan introduced me to the Zettelkasten method of note-taking. I wou

The DCF analysis is the approach that is used to arrive at the intrinsic value of an investment (there are many more approaches, but the DCF analysis is one of the most effective and most probable app

Rick Branson Apr 4 · 10 min read Over the last few years, the software development community’s love affair with the popular open-source relational database has reached a bit of a fever pitch. This Hac

19:43 How to legally hire remote candidates 22:05 Onboarding remote employees Watch the full video at YouTube here: https://youtube.com/garrytan — You can also read the full . I guess we're all workin

How to Take Smart Notes is a book by Sonke Ahrens explaining the "Zettlekasten" methodology developed by Niklas Luhmann , a 20th century Sociologist who published a prodigious amount of work: 70 books

Apr 4th 2020 Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today , our daily newsletter. To receive i

Rainbow-coloured fish swirled around my legs in crystal-clear South Pacific waters. On a semi-tropical rainforest walk, I clapped my hands and chirping flightless birds ran towards me, tame from lack

Pradėdamas šį projektą turėjau kelis esminius tikslus – parodyti, jog investuoti nėra sudėtinga ir jog tai gali daryti bet kas, nepaisant finansinės padėties, galimybių, žinių. Praėjus pirmam mėnesiui

Pensijos, gyvybės draudimai ir panašūs produktai yra antra pagal dažnumą į mano el-paštą krentanti tema. Pirmą vietą be konkurencijos laimi ėėė klausyk aš čia turiu XYZ eurų, gal galit patart, ar geri

The only thing more awkward than talking about money? Asking questions about money. It reveals gaps in our knowledge that most of us feel we should have somehow filled in years ago. If you’re feeling

A ll the best things come in capsules. Medicine. Space food. Time. And, naturally, clothes. Not in a download-your-outfit-from-the-internet way, the capsule wardrobe is far simpler than that. It’s the

The Maersk Triple-E Class container ship is 1,300 feet long, carries over 18,000 containers across 11,000 miles between Europe and Asia, and… Its entire crew can fit inside a passenger van. As a forme

tl;dr: Ignorance of security issues by mobile operator partners leaks your phone number to malicious websites. Misconfigurations of mobile operators allow tracking you worldwide. Try it yourself - Pro