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Alex Allain

Alex Allain

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Oct 13, 2019

How to get your first internship in tech

Having interned at a well known tech company is a major plus that will help you stand out and get the next internship. But what if you…

Alex Allain

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Aug 15, 2019

What I’ve learned interviewing 500 people: the interviewer skills ladder for high growth software…

It’s possible that the only thing engineers hate more than a nasty bug is interviewing. Interviews are interruptions from deep work…

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May 14, 2019

What it feels like to deposit a gold bar into your experience piggy bank

You just deleted a production database. Fck. Fck. Fck. You should have been more careful. Fck. This is not going to be a good day — or…

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May 7, 2019

Ten More Minutes

Can working on multiple small projects in ten minute daily chunks really work?

Alex Allain

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Feb 16, 2019

The empathy machine

The empathy machine was tired. Each client brought their own suffering, dumping their unhappiness into it one miserable story at a time…

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Feb 10, 2019

Without a doubt

The machine was happy. It was always happy. That was its job, and it was proud of its work.

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Jan 25, 2019

How to remember what you read

Most nonfiction, most of the time, will be forgotten in weeks. A book you read a year ago, directly relevant to your present circumstances…

How to remember what you read

Alex Allain

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Jan 15, 2019

Ten minutes a day

In early 2012, I published Jumping into C++. According to the calendar, I wrote the book between January 2010 to January 2012, but it took…

Alex Allain

Alex Allain

CTO @ U.S. Digital Response; ex-Dropbox; Creator: cprogramming.com, Author: Jumping into C++; C-host decodingsalespodcast.com

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