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How to hire force multipliers (not 10x engineers)

https://leaddev.com/hiring/how-hire-force-multipliers-10x-engineers
3•gpi•5h ago

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incomingpain•4h ago
Jennifer Riggins, author of the article. Quotes:

Founder of Technical Accounting Christine Miao’s, Nivenly Foundation fellow Hazel Weakly; Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb; engineering leader Kate Heddleston

All of her quotes are women; who are portrayed as 'the way'

>As he shipped fast, he broke things, He was constantly fighting the very issues he created. Not only did he make a culture of constant firefighting normal, he was constantly creating more mess.

when it's about the 'brilliant jerk", Always HE. Very interesting how she is displaying gender as the success metric.

>A 10x engineer, therefore, isn’t someone who is 10 times better than those around them, but someone who makes those around them 10 times better.

The 10x engineer isn't a superhero neo. It's the person who is capable of performing the tasks. Imagine an outage at 7am, 8am meeting for the whole team.

The night owl who got 3 hours sleep before the 8am meeting isnt going to be 1x.

The spreadsheet guru who loves pivot tables but cant code worth a damn isnt 1x.

The coop-rookie who is eager to learn but isnt going to contribute to the team isnt 1x.

The parent whose kid was sick all night, and now they are sick for the 10th time this year isnt 1x.

The tinkerer who is really good in the homelab but the business wants nowhere near production isnt 1x.

The negative nancy who is only going to say whatever the fix is, is wrong and wont work isnt 1x.

The 'opportunity to do that big change' person who doesnt realize you dont do that during outages isnt 1x.

The 'ive been promoted because ive been here 15 years but never learnt anything' isnt 1x.

The 10x engineer is pissed off because HE is a 1x engineer and everyone around him are operating at 0.1x.

The SLAX scripting language: an alternative syntax for XSLT

http://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html
1•fanf2•17s ago•0 comments

Use dive to look inside your Docker image

https://www.infoq.com/articles/docker-size-dive/
1•chiragagrawal93•1m ago•0 comments

Nintendo is restricting the Switch 2's USB-C port with proprietary protocols

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-is-restricting-the-switch-2s-usb-c-port-most-third-party-docks-and-accessories-wont-work-thanks-to-proprietary-protocols
1•CharlesW•1m ago•0 comments

Lessons of Babel – On what is lost and gained in translation

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/lessons-of-babel
1•pseudolus•7m ago•0 comments

A Storm Part II: Visualising Conflict and Displacement Data

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2025/07/04/the-story-of-a-storm-part-ii-visualising-conflict-and-displacement-data/
1•stareatgoats•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vile Coding

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2•bbmatryoshka•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nobody hires software developers anymore, so I guess I'm a blogger now

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3•MongooseStudios•11m ago•1 comments

If Emacs is not a text editor, then what is it really?

2•hushangazar•12m ago•1 comments

"Ian Knot" detailed tutorial – Professor Shoelace [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-xaJrao1w
1•kamaraju•14m ago•0 comments

Candid Photos of How People Used Technology in the 1980s

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/people-and-technology-1980s/
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

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Local AI Journaling App

https://github.com/BarsatKhadka/Vinaya-Journal
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LoRA Image Generator

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ASMR Videos Generator

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Wanna see some real cowboy coding?

https://gitgud.io/stephenlynx/vatikan
1•StephenLynx•23m ago•0 comments

Google inks its first fusion power deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/google-inks-its-first-fusion-power-deal-with-commonwealth-fusion-systems/
1•mpweiher•24m ago•0 comments

Open Source Security work isn't "Special"

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1•Tomte•25m ago•0 comments

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2•globnomulous•26m ago•1 comments

AI Job

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1•rhttrhtrq•26m ago•0 comments

Xbox has reportedly downsized Turn 10 and cancelled Forza Motorsport

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Show HN: NarrateIt – Listen to Articles by Converting Any URL to Audio

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1•victor871129•28m ago•0 comments

Self-healing electronic material uses graphene and polymer blend to mimic skin

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1•PaulHoule•30m ago•0 comments

A supposedly worthwhile contract I'll never do again

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2025-07-04-tla-contracts/
5•Bogdanp•30m ago•0 comments

Hiring US-based software devs just got 20% cheaper (due to Section 174A changes)

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2•gkedzierski•31m ago•0 comments

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1•zabzonk•36m ago•1 comments

First human genome from ancient Egypt sequenced from 4,800-year-old teeth

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02102-y
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Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)

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2•pncnmnp•38m ago•0 comments