Average Faces of Different Professions

Using a career-focused social-networking site, I’ve gathered images of faces from different professions. For each search (eg, ‘software engineer’), I took the first 50 to 80 faces that the career site displayed that were forward-facing and in color. Here are the…

Optimize Before Hiring More People

If you’re like most product development managers, you have far more work to do than your team can…

The Hackerati — A Culture of Innovation

When we first contemplated starting a business together in early 2012, we came up with a diverse list of new product ideas that we could potentially pursue, including software, hardware, security, media, mobile, analytics, and more. Then a funny thing…

Deepdreaming without the Slugdogs

In our deepnightmares, we’ve seen monstrous slugdogs, shoggoths of endless eyes, creatures beyond all reckoning. Wherever we look, a dog’s face stares back at us, with their cohort of unflinching finches, all beaks and eyes. We try to escape into different layers, but…

Agile Engineering

It seems like everyone wants to be more agile these days. Scrum, Kanban, and other agile project methodologies are all the rage. These methodologies generally speak to how product and development teams collaborate to deliver functionality, but they don’t prescribe how engineering teams complete…

Side Projects

A sampling of projects that Hackerati work on in their free time!

A Thousand Years of the Painted Face

Humans have always been compelled by faces. We like to look at them, we like to draw them, we…