Looking at first 5 or so pages, I've read a lot of these. Good stuff but seems very unilateral view on the world and I think could be unhealthy for founders to focus too much on startups.
Not sure what is the right mix, but some of the most motivating reads for me were:
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- iWoz
- The Soul of a New Machine
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
- The Mighty Micro: Impact of the Computer Revolution
- Accidental Empires
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
The kinds of things I look for in evaluating senior candidates are things like:
- Payments flow kept going down because of lack of reliability in our CI, so I rebuilt the job queueing system to get to 99% reliability
- Most of our business is outside of the US, so we invested in better CDN routing, got a 50% improvement in our web TTIs
- We weren’t able to deploy code often because of our monolith, so we moved to a service-oriented architecture in order to speed up development
If candidates can’t justify why a project happened and why it helped either the company or their team, then that candidate isn’t a senior engineer, they’re just someone taking marching orders.
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Only reason I use OS X instead of Linux are the commercial apps. Not because of how Mac OS X looks. I like to pay for apps when/if they are better than their free/opensource counterparts, but very often those are not available on Linux.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a commercial multiplatform apps marketplace, similar to Steam but more productivity focused?
The marketplace could even provide developers with an SDK to enable them to easily create packaging, networking and UIs without having to use OS specific libraries. Basically anything that usually has to be done for each platform separately. Similar to how Unity3D helps with multiplatform game development.
Something like this could push developers to release commercial software on Linux, too, because it would be basically just another build from the same source.
And who knows some day Adobe and other big players might release their products like Photoshop, Lightroom etc on it.
I'm at the moment working on a product to help me (and others?) to keep their bookmarks synced across devices. I've done some preliminary work on importing google bookmarks and delicious to my system. A lot of work still left undone, though. But let's see, maybe it's somehow usable soon if I will stay interested :)
Searchyc will arrange the results of a search in chronological order, which I find very useful since the date I saw the post is one of the most reliable pieces of information I will typically have on the post.
It is funny that this feature has yet to hit google. I am wanting more and more the ability to sort my google results in chronological order. I recently got a iMac and would love to see the most resent article on how to do things and not ones from 2008!
It's a shame Blekko doesn't seem to crawl news.ycombinator.com much, you could get that information with site:news.ycombinator.com /date [ query ] if they did
Not sure what is the right mix, but some of the most motivating reads for me were:
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- iWoz
- The Soul of a New Machine
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
- The Mighty Micro: Impact of the Computer Revolution
- Accidental Empires
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values