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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Code To make split-testing pervasive, it has to be incredibly easy. The only change you have to get used to as you start to code in this style, is to wrap your changes in a simple one-line condition. Now, it may be that these code examples have scared off our non-technical friends. October 4, 2008 10:33 AM Amitt Mahajan said.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. For example, the best book reviewers only review books published by the best publishers, which only accept manuscripts from the best agents. And how could they possibly review a blog? Is that a lot? Is that good?

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Because this language may lead you to believe this concept is for enterprise sales only, I thought Id walk you through an example from the world of consumer electronics. It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. Hes just as comfortable writing code as racking servers, debugging windows drivers, or devising new interview questions. He throws off volumes of code, and it works.

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

The credit is due to much smarter people than me, and to the incredible power of necessity, that mother of invention. You may have to staff up a large customer service department to review and approve all of the items. Sales depend on being right (whereas in UGC we can pretty much try anything, and promote the winners).