Category: engineer
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podcast: Developer Tea: Growth, Uncomfortability, and Deliberate Practice
http://developertea.simplecast.fm/28eb61ef
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Software Was Never Meant To Be Free
We used to have shareware and that was how programmers could give you software for free. When 2% of people pay for ‘free’ software, the rest of the world could get the benefits of free software. Because people don’t pay for mobile & desktop apps developers started adding very annoying ads into software causing some…
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Podcast Ecosystem : Fun Facts
When I started working on a hackathon project to publish the Splunk .conf videos from our conf.splunk.com site into a podcast form, I learned a lot that I didn’t know. This learning through hands on work has led me to contributing software code to an open source project call AntennaPod. I will write more later…
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Link: Salary data on levels.fyi
https://www.levels.fyi/2019/ – I have no idea how accurate this salary data is, but it’s pretty outrageous how much software engineers are paid.
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Quick, what is the % of female graduates in computer science?
Before googling for the answer, what do you think is the % women who receive computer science bachelor’s degrees in the United States in 2019? 50% 40% 19% See answer here
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Each Of Us Has A Part of The Solution, Together We Have The Whole.
Each Of Us Has A Part of The Solution, Together We Have The Whole! Splunk is a company of thousands of talented individuals, distributed across product development offices in 8 offices in the U.S., AUNZ, Europe, and Asia. How do we do our best work collectively and continue to push innovation while expanding at hypergrowth…
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Hiring practice thoughts and questions
I’m looking for a list of best practices, (maybe mechanics) with data to back up recommendations: For example, starting with resume reviews all the way to closing the candidates. (some random thoughts ) 1) In the resume tool: Do you create a set of standard templates to send? Do you try to respond by a…
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Podcast: Chris Lattner creator of LLVM infrastructure, Swift programming language
I geeked out listening to this podcast following along the career of the creator of one of most successful compiler platform LLVM.
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Falling in love with a book
I started reading the book The Pragmatic Programmer, published In 1999! It is such a fantastic book with very relevant tips for professional software engineers. I am just on chapter 2 now, but I have already marked up the book about important ideas that I need to follow up. How did I skip this vital…