There's More than One Way for Engineers to Move Up
The stoic, traditional career ladder is pretty much nonexistent in the world of software engineering. The best engineers have choices: You can venture into the unfamiliar domain of management, in which...
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The Risky Eclipse of Statisticians
If statisticians have historically been leaders of data, why was there a need for a brand new breed of data scientists? While the world is exploding with bounties of valuable data, statisticians are...
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How Amazon Web Services Surged Out of Nowhere
Few people–if any–saw it coming. Even engineers who helped build the omnipresent Cloud that is Amazon Web Services (AWS) are surprised by its goliath success today. “You never know how big something...
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The Interdependency Of Stanford And Silicon Valley [Tech Crunch]
This article also appeared on Tech Crunch There was a time when Stanford University was considered a second-rate engineering school. It was the early 1940s, and the Department of Defense was pressed to...
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Legendary Productivity And The Fear Of Modern Programming [TechCrunch]
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch JavaScript master Douglas Crockford once said that software is the most complex thing that humans have ever created. It’s made up of intricate bits and...
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Girls Who Code: You Can’t Live Without Female Software Engineers
We all know the sobering stats: Only 16% of the US’s 3.1 million software engineers are women. What we don’t emphasize often enough is that even though women make up a dismal fraction of software...
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Tech's Loophole in 'Years of Experience'
This article originally appeared in Forbes. Time is arbitrary–a relative school of thought. Ancient Roman civilizations looked at sun and moon cycles and decided that just about 365 days would make up...
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Many of you have it. That dormant bug that’s hungry for hacking. Even if you don’t professionally pursue it, the spirit of engineering is often ingrained deep in the crevices of our brains. Common...
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The Immutability of Math and How Almost Everything Else Will Pass
This article was originally published on Forbes TL;DR: Right now, there’s a cultural push to untie the historical link between advanced math and programming that could partially deter engineers from...
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Livestream Recap: SnapDragon Shares Pearls of Programming Wisdom
On May 31st, the legendary, wise and experienced Derek Kisman (aka SnapDragon) graciously answered dozens upon dozens of questions posted by passionate hackers via HackerRank Live for 6 hours! What’s...
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