I’ve been seeing quite a few posts on Hacker News lately about why you should not work too hard and even saying you should work less than 35 hours a...
3 replies - 2446 views - 05/16/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
When I first started writing The Hacker Chick Blog, I was incredibly taken by Kathy Sierra and her Creating Passionate Users blog.
I loved how fun...
0 replies - 1717 views - 05/15/13 by Abby Fichtner in Articles
The classic tale of a year-long project finally being delivered only to discover it doesn’t meet the needs of the customer sounds ridiculous in the days of...
1 replies - 5149 views - 05/11/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
This is mostly a note to myself that will probably come back and reference/update from time to time.
Remember to Experiment
Do not forget this....
0 replies - 2475 views - 05/03/13 by Mahdi Yusuf in Articles
The average lifespan for a software engineering job is 4 years. Okay, I've never actually seen proof (or contradiction), but that's the general feeling in the...
0 replies - 2823 views - 05/01/13 by Jay Fields in Articles
Avoiding Burnout
Especially for developers working at startups, burning out is a serious risk. Andrew Dumont has burnt out before, and in this blog post he...
0 replies - 3426 views - 05/01/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Are you a developer or startup entrepreneur? Have you ever been frustrated with some of the claims made by the sales team or lacked the patience or...
0 replies - 2401 views - 04/30/13 by Sean Hull in Articles
What do you do when you make a mistake?
Not just in your job, but in life in general?
I’ve made some pretty big mistakes in my career
.
Just last...
0 replies - 1468 views - 04/29/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
Yahoo’s decision to ban working from home can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention. Whatever the reasons might be, to me their decision sends out a...
0 replies - 6414 views - 04/28/13 by Oscar Berg in Articles
Employers ask for elite performers, but they should be careful – they could get what they ask for… If they find an elite performer, do they have the elite...
0 replies - 7640 views - 04/23/13 by Anders Abel in Articles
The PHP jobs market is hot, very many people find it hard to recruit the skilled staff that they need to achieve the goals of their organization. I meet a wide...
1 replies - 2817 views - 04/23/13 by Lorna Mitchell in Articles
Everyone is talking about the Yahoo! memo ending work from home for employees. When a company is in crisis, as Yahoo! is, actions like these, that don’t seem...
1 replies - 6969 views - 04/22/13 by Krishna Kumar in Articles
One of the most difficult parts of software development is adapting to
change. It's a guarantee that the concepts, ideas, and possibly the
point of the...
3 replies - 4670 views - 04/17/13 by Isaac Taylor in Articles
We all have coworkers who rub us the wrong way, get on our nerves, and generally drive us crazy.
Let’s consider these examples of three people who have...
3 replies - 8159 views - 04/13/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
Only one in three employees is highly engaged says Towers Watson in a 2012 study. Not only does that make sense to me, I fear the number may actually be even...
2 replies - 2693 views - 04/01/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
