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Sep 17, 2022

Should I become a people manager? The difficulty of identifying management potential

I’ve been thinking recently of the age-old question: what makes a person a candidate for a good manager? How do recognize people who have potential? You might be unsure if you’d make a great manager yourself — so you’ve never even considered that as a viable career path. You’d be…

Management

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Should I become a people manager? The difficulty of identifying management potential
Should I become a people manager? The difficulty of identifying management potential
Management

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Mar 9, 2018

Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World

Charity Majors, a woman I follow on twitter and have a ton of respect for, got a lot of flack for this blog post. She framed it ‘problematic advice,’ and I sympathize with that. Despite being in the tech industry for a long time, I’ve also often avoided saying too…

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Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World
Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World

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·Mar 30, 2017

When it comes to debugging, believe no one.

Debugging is a skill you must employ when writing software and yet requires a uniquely different type of mindset. Software engineering (for most code) is largely process oriented, debugging is often non-linear and looks like it’s intuition oriented. But there is process. My #1 Rule in debugging is: Believe No…

Programming

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Programming

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Feb 14, 2016

My Experience With Linux of the 90s, or why I have Linux Desktop PTSD

I have Linux on my phone right now (I’ve finally switched from Apple -> Android). My terror of malware aside, it’s a delightful experience. I see people using Linux on their desktops/laptops, and it JUST WORKS. This continues to amaze me. In the 90s, back when I started using Linux…

Linux

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My Experience With Linux of the 90s, or why I have Linux Desktop PTSD
My Experience With Linux of the 90s, or why I have Linux Desktop PTSD
Linux

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Apr 4, 2015

After all this time, we still can’t crypto

Earlier today, someone posted a blog about their experiences auditing an NQ Vault, an Android app that claimed to be “a safe place to store your private data.” The result was not pretty. TLDR: basically it turns out the encryption the app was using was, how shall we say, less…

Security

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Security

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Oct 27, 2014

Hackers or Engineers?

who to hire for your startup, and why — I’m going to to talk about two archetypes I’ve observed over my career as a developer, the Hacker (the programmer kind, not the software breaking kind) and the Engineer. How to Spot a Hacker Hackers get shit done, and fast. It may not be the most elegant or scalable solution, but it comes to life…

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Jun 18, 2014

Docker breakout exploit analysis 

a summary and line by line overview — Recently, an interesting Docker exploit was posted (http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/shocker.c) that demonstrates an information leak where a Docker container can access some privileged filesystem data where it shouldn’t. …

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Jun 1, 2014

Startups, Security, and Noble Vision

I sent an email out to @all at Threat Stack, and I thought it would be worth cleaning up to post here… “Noble Vision” I heard a CEO mention this concept during a Tech Stars talk then ran into it again reading some awesome articles on Harvard Business Review (e.g…

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Mar 14, 2014

On the other side of a booth

This article was inspired as a reaction to this WAPO article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/27/heres-what-its-like-to-be-a-booth-babe-at-cybersecuritys-biggest-conference/?tid=pm_business_pop You think it’s frustrating to be a booth babe? You know nothing, Washington Post. I spent some time this past week managing my startup’s RSA Conference booth. We’re not a huge company (yet!) …

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Feb 22, 2014

free startup ideas for technical cofounders

#1: solve micropayments for content — This is likely the first in a series of thoughts I have for startup ideas. I am, in many cases, not a subject-matter-expert, and am talking out of my ass. Is the idea valuable? Maybe. But it’s all about the execution. You know what is annoying? Watching ads or being stuck behind an annoying paywall that was me to give out yet another credit card number and fill out another sign up form for yet another website.

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Jen Andre

Jen Andre

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Jen writes about security & software stuff. http://jenpire.com. Twitter: @fun_cuddles

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