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About Posted on Oct 16, 2010 I am Nicholas Whittier and I describe myself as a DIYer, a Linux fan-boy, an open source enthusiast, and a lover of lawn sports. I read the Great Books of Western Civilization, and I think I understand some of them.
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Video Games Improve Peer Reviews
I've been reading and writing engineering peer reviews for a long time (almost twenty years - where does the time go?), and the vast majority of these are a waste of time for the reviewer and the individual in question. For the record, I think peer review
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Good Technical Interviews Don't Scale
We all know that technical interviews are broken. Or so say the majority of the folks on the internet who have an opinion to share. I want to join the side of the argument who admits that something isn't working for technical interview models, but I think
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Why are you still writing performance reviews?
This is not a post about using your favorite ai tooling to write your performance reviews. Don't do that. This is a post about how to leverage your team to do a lot of your performance review work on your behalf. This works best on growth oriented teams t
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Attention to Dependencies Breeds Maintainability
I recently read Ease of maintenance is a feature along with some HN commentary . I walked away from this nodding emphatically along with the concept that ease of maintenance is a feature , and choosing sides among the crowd who are for or against a partic
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A Truth Framework for Engineering 1 on 1 Meetings
Full disclosure: I am in the middle of an adventure in uncharted territories. I'm one of those individual contributors who turned to management because it made sense for some number of reasons that felt more beneficial than my urges to continue making ind
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