33 Things Successful Leaders Have Given Up
“Leadership is a privilege and it’s time all of us divorce the bad leaders so that the true leaders can rise up.”
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“Leadership is a privilege and it’s time all of us divorce the bad leaders so that the true leaders can rise up.”
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GitHub Learning Lab provides hands-on, guided learning experiences to help aspiring and experienced developers learn how to build software, work in teams, and more. We’ve spent some time focusing on the authoring experience, and we can’t wait to show you everything you can do with the improvements we made to Learning Lab.”
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“Communication styles can greatly vary at the company, team and individual levels, and it is important to know where each one of them lays in regards to where you want to be.”
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“Excited about your python project? Do you want to share it with a wider audience? Packaging and publishing your package is a great way to get other people interested in your project. Here is a simple step by step guide to build and publish your first python package.”
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“There’s this idea that, if you do great work at your job, people will (or should!) automatically recognize that work and reward you for it with promotions / increased pay. In practice, it’s often more complicated than that – some kinds of important work are more visible/memorable than others. It’s frustrating to have done something really important and later realize that you didn’t get rewarded for it just because the people making the decision didn’t understand or remember what you did. So I want to talk about a tactic that I and lots of people I work with have used!”
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The sheer size of GitHub at over 30 million accounts, more than 2 million organizations, and over 96 million repositories translates into one of the world’s most valuable development networks.
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How do you quantify the value of this network? And is there a way to get the top repositories?
“If you want to be, a really good, senior developer there’s only one way to go about it: Commit mistake, correct mistake, learn from mistake, share mistake—repeat.”
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I recently wanted a way to quickly jot down things I learn throughout the day, or lessons I want to keep in mind. But that’s not enough — I also need to be able to search these logs so I can find exactly what I’m looking for right away. That’s exactly what I’m going to show you how to build today. This project, front-to-back, took me maybe an hour and a half.
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“Receptor is meant, primarily, to provide connectivity for services that need to distribute work across different network topologies.”
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“Capacity planning is the "black box" of Linux system administration. Here are five things you need to do to get started.”
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This blog post talks about reverse engineering the Dropbox client, breaking its obfuscation mechanisms, de-compiling it to Python code as well as modifying the client in order to use debug features which are normally hidden from view. If you're just interested in relevant code and notes please scroll to the end. As of this writing it is up to date with the current versions of Dropbox which are based on the CPython 3.6 interpreter.
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An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application. A Kubernetes application is an application that is both deployed on Kubernetes and managed using the Kubernetes APIs and kubectl tooling.
This post will walk through making an Operator based on an existing Helm chart to show the value you can get through an Operator, without having to write any Go code, using the Helm Operator kit from the Operator Framework. Afterwards, we are going to compare and contrast this Helm-powered Operator vs a Go-based Operator.
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future. Together, the two companies will empower developers to achieve more at every stage of the development lifecycle, accelerate enterprise use of GitHub, and bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences.
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“Google recently announced Cloud Run, a new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) feature, to deploy your Docker applications fast and easily. This guide will explain how to build and deploy a simple static application using the new continuous integration/continuous delivery system provided by GitHub: Actions.”
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“In April, BBC Culture polled experts around the world to nominate up to five fictional stories they felt had shaped mindsets or influenced history. We received answers from 108 authors, academics, journalists, critics and translators in 35 countries – their choices took in novels, poems, folk tales and dramas in 33 different languages, including Sumerian, K’iche and Ge’ez.”
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“In this story, I want to showcase a typical use case for classes and especially the @classmethod decorator.”
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