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#Management
tl;dr: The following are explained in detail (1) measure what you hope to improve (2) size the org against peers, goals and performance (3) structure into smaller teams (4) project growth (5) rest in between changes to master the current structure.
What Comes After “Open Source”
- Steve Klabnik
#OpenSource
tl;dr: Licensing agreements define both open source and free software, but doesn't capture the essence of why software should be free. Licenses care about distribution and consumption but not production, which is what developers care about. Two potential models are outlined as possible evolutions.
#Hiring
tl;dr: Common mistakes include not giving interviewees enough time to solve problems, judging if a problem is solved but not the method it was solved by, not assessing how mistakes are handled, conducting multiple shorter interviews, whiteboarding and not tailoring to the interviewee's background.
The Zero Bug Policy
- Kevin Sookocheff
#Management #Testing
tl;dr: All bugs should be treated equally. Benefits are that it sensitizes the team to having bugs, reduces development time (devs have to re-learn the issue and context of bug which takes time), improves feature estimations, velocity and customer happiness.
Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007)
- Marc Andreessen
#Productivity
tl;dr: Don't hold a schedule, prepare a list of 3-5 must-do items for the following day. If you procrastinate over a specific task, use that time to do lots of other tasks. Screw up things you don't want to do or aren't worth your time. Do email twice a day, don't have your inbox open all day. 😲
#Management
tl;dr: Ask more questions of the people around you and understand they have something to teach you. The author runs through ten specific questions that new leaders should ask themselves and their reports.
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#Performance
tl;dr: Developers can improve performance of memory intensive applications by designing data structures to mirror the way in which modern memory is stored by (1) arranging layout to minimize reading/writing useless bytes (2) minimize random accesses (3) access elements with predictable stride.
The TypeScript Tax
#TypeScript
tl;dr: Cost-benefit analysis of Typescript concludes that the author would not use it in future large scale applications in its current state, although would choose it for smaller applications, mostly due to the fact that costs compound in large applications.
#Product
tl;dr: Outlines the development of personas by clustering Spotify listeners based on needs, attitudes, device habits, contexts and other variables, and then understanding the situations people listened to music together. The articles also outlines how these were shared across autonomous teams.
Keep JavaScript Dumb
- David Weinberger
#Javascript
tl;dr: Javascript is becoming harder for hobbyists and amateurs to use. Logic is being hidden for things like elegance. The author recognizes he shouldn't feel this way and he's fighting a lost battle.
#Python
tl;dr: Run through Pytype, which will (1) Statically infer type information and check your code for type errors (2) Validate PEP 484 type annotations in your code for consistency (3) Merge back inferred type information into your code.
#General
tl;dr: Breakdown of which countries developers are coming and the languages they develop in, this article asks and answers the question, have developers started to learn how to exit vim? 🤦
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ConFoo
March 13-15
Montreal, Canada
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Strata Data Conf
March 27-28
San Francisco, CA, USA
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React Amsterdam
April 10-12
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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SmashingConf
April 16-17
California, USA
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Devoxx
April 17-19
Paris, France
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GOTO Chicago
April 28-May 2
Chicago, USA
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DockerCon
April 29-May 2
San Francisco, USA
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RailsConf
April 30-May 2
Minneapolis, USA
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Microsoft Build
May 6-8
Seattle, Washington, USA
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PHP[tek]
May 21 - 23
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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GlueCon
May 22-23
Broomfield, Colorado, USA
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OSCON
July 17-18
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Open Source Summit
July 17-19
Tokyo, Japan
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GopherCon
July 24-27
San Diego, California, USA
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ApacheCon
Sept 9–12
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Strange Loop
Sept 12-14
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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DjangoCon US
Sept 22-27
San Diego, CA
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Oracle CodeOne
Sept 16–19
SF, California
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React Day Berlin
Nov 30
Berlin, Germany
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Microsoft Ignite
Nov 4-8
Orlando, Florida, USA
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dotJS
Dec 5-6
Paris, France
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DevTernity
December 6-7
Riga, Latvia
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