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(a) self-taught programmer
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Awesome Developer Advocates Are Hiding in Plain Sight
Founders

Awesome Developer Advocates Are Hiding in Plain Sight

Why you shouldn’t filter for social media following or prior experience

6 min read
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table
Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table

Quantifying the billion dollar impact of developer inefficiency

5 min read
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 2 — More (Developers) Isn’t Always More
Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 2 — More (Developers) Isn’t Always More

Adding more cooks to the kitchen rarely helps

7 min read
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 1 — The Flywheel
Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 1 — The Flywheel

Developer productivity is falling. But it doesn't have to. The solution? The Developer Productivity Flywheel

8 min read
Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups
Founders

Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups

The biggest challenges facing developer productivity startups today

10 min read
Robinhood Traders are Last to the Party
Investors

Robinhood Traders are Last to the Party

Robinhood traders get fleeced not by HFTs front-running milliseconds before their order hits but by other retail investors, days earlier.

4 min read
Why Developers Love Redpanda
Developers

Why Developers Love Redpanda

Why Vectorized's focus on developer experience will unlock real-time streaming for the great majority of developers

8 min read
There's Nothing Magical About the SaaS Magic Number
Founders

There's Nothing Magical About the SaaS Magic Number

Magic number is a bad metric. Sales and marketing drives much less revenue than this not-so-magical number implies

14 min read
Product-Market Fit is Lindy
Founders

Product-Market Fit is Lindy

The longer you search for product-market fit, the less likely you will find it.

8 min read
Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers
Developers

Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers

10 min read
Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailed
Investors

Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailed

In enterprise software, averages are meaningless. Instead, focus on the tails.

10 min read
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition (Paper Explained)
Research

An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition (Paper Explained)

Large Transformer trained on large datasets outperform CNN-based architectures and achieve state of the art results on image recognition tasks

8 min read
Pre-training via Paraphrasing (Paper Explained)
Research

Pre-training via Paraphrasing (Paper Explained)

Transformer model pre-trained on document retrieval and reconstruction performs well on both fine-tuned and zero-shot downstream tasks

8 min read
Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups
Founders

Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups

What's top of mind for developer productivity leaders

9 min read
Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivity
Founders

Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivity

We interviewed developer productivity leaders. Here's what they said.

12 min read
Why Don't VCs Index Invest?
Investors

Why Don't VCs Index Invest?

VCs are picky, not because they have so many options but because they have so few.

10 min read
The Value of College May Be Negative for the COVID Generation
Investors

The Value of College May Be Negative for the COVID Generation

You might think the value of a college degree has been increasing. You would be wrong.

8 min read
Do College Degrees Matter for Software Engineers? Maybe
Developers

Do College Degrees Matter for Software Engineers? Maybe

Do college-educated developers earn more? Yes, but less than you might think

3 min read
Pandemiconomics: Viral Volatility
Investors

Pandemiconomics: Viral Volatility

How the virus rocked stocks

4 min read
Byron Deeter and Jason Lemkin on the State of VC and the Cloud
Investors

Byron Deeter and Jason Lemkin on the State of VC and the Cloud

When to raise capital, what to expect from VCs, and the "new normal"

7 min read
Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developers
Developers

Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developers

Working remote even just a few days per month leads to higher pay

3 min read
How Age, Race, and Gender Affect Software Engineering Pay
Developers

How Age, Race, and Gender Affect Software Engineering Pay

Progress on narrowing pay gaps among software developers

9 min read
The Highest-Paid Software Engineers: 2020 Edition
Developers

The Highest-Paid Software Engineers: 2020 Edition

Engineers are the basic economic unit of modern software development. The software production function depends critically on developer productivity and compensation. And yet software engineering pay remains poorly understood.

4 min read
How Uber and Lyft Dominated Ridesharing By Seeing Red Where Others Saw Blue
Founders

How Uber and Lyft Dominated Ridesharing By Seeing Red Where Others Saw Blue

A quick visit to the Red Sea

5 min read
Pattern Matching is Dead. Long Live People Matching
Founders

Pattern Matching is Dead. Long Live People Matching

Venture capital is changing — for the better

6 min read
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