Jon Evans
Jon Evans
Jon Evansis a Canadian novelist, journalist, adventure traveler, and software engineer...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryCanada
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In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.
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To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.
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At the end of the day we're going to ask you to return Marcus to the Texas Youth Commission to continue his treatment program with some other time or some other place review if necessary.
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Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.
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Our lack of execution on offense created very quick transitions,
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.
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It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected.
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I felt like we did not play the way we are capable of today. We made a lot of mistakes, especially with our marks. We made countless errors defending and that really put us behind the eight ball.
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Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.
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The sky was filled with helicopters, and the airwaves were full of guys going down all over the place.
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The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.
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I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up.
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Every time you log in to Facebook, every time you click on your News Feed, every time you Like a photo, every time you send anything via Messenger, you add another data point to the galaxy they already have regarding you and your behavior.
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Their breakouts happened so fast we didn't have a chance to recover. I think we will play better than what we showed today. I think our play can only improve from here.