AmberShah

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by AmberShah 16y ago
A similar question was asked on a recent 'This Week in Startups' http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/this-week-in-start... The gist of the answer was that if you were clearly making a play on the word eBay or if people might get the
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I think they are also trying to help consumers. I listened to an interview where they said they have people on staff that will talk to customers and help them through the process. They are trying to make the searching process (and fees) m
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I agree with this line of thinking completely for any hiring where the quality of the job is important. Programming? Yes. Nanny for my children? Yes. Washing my car? Shrug. And yes, for the short period I had a nanny for my son, she w
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by AmberShah 16y ago
The "Free SEO Analysis" tool is pretty cool - although surely that required some amount of programming development, and it's not mentioned in the blog post.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Hmm... this wasn't really what I was expecting. It's a good list of job boards for IT jobs. And if you're looking for a job (and moreso, if you're currently unemployed) you should probably be taking the time to go through each one (and mor
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Programmers: Working in IT vs R&D(codeanthem.com)
1 points by AmberShah 16y ago|0 comments
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by AmberShah 16y ago
1) I can actually get a lot more done in a 1 hour lunch break at work than a 2 hour session at night. Other people prefer to work in the mornings before work or even work a full weekend day. There's no reason why it has to be in the eveni
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by AmberShah 16y ago
So far, it has been going the part-time, bootstrapping route versus actively trying to raise funding and go full time.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
As a hiring manager, most of the time my mind is made up 30 minutes into the interview (though it's not considered polite to cut it short or notify them at that time). However, in the very rare case of a tie, a follow up email (or handwrit
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by AmberShah 16y ago
My husband and I both have IRAs (don't quality for ROTH) with ShareBuilder, into which we put very little money monthly. I recently started working at a company with 401K matching and do the full match on that.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Communism much?
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by AmberShah 16y ago
For one, it's our male role models who are using computers while our female role models aren't. Children are affected by such gender differences very early. They notice who drives the car when everyone goes out, who cooks dinner, and who
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Interesting... although this requires that I install something before I start commenting, when it should be able to be automatic, since I use the same name/URL everywhere.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
That's it! Huh... they've changed it so it doesn't really do that anymore, does it? Thanks, though :)
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Signing bonuses are basically non-existant in Houston. Annual bonuses are common but that depends highly on the industry. Both the financial and energy industries have taken a big hit in the past few years and they are the lifeblood of th
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I'm in Houston and know about the pay here (as both a programmer and a hiring manager). I'd say you're comfortably paid but on the low end. It depends on what industry you are in as well. For example, in the medical industry that would b
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by AmberShah 16y ago
If you are interested in this, you should try this book: http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Computing-Jane-Mar... They did a survey of CS students to find out their first experiences. They provide specific quotes in the book, but
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I went to Toastmasters a few years back, but before I got into Toastmasters. It's really the best thing to do if you want to get comfortable speaking in front of a group and do it well.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I am one of those "90k-salaried .NET developer" and am currently working on my startup, because: 1. Working on something you are passionate about it is food for the soul, and 2. Working for a good salary has a cap, a startup that I own does
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Ask HN: What is that site for seeing comments on various blogs?
1 points by AmberShah 16y ago|4 comments
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by AmberShah 16y ago
This is a neat service, but it will be much more useful to me if I can exclude ones from my own domain AND ones from my support forums (not on my domain) AND ones that I create by commenting on blogs. While they may or may not be relevant
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Me too. You may want to consider integrating Code Antgem badges too as part of a user's profile. Email me amber@codeanthem.com to discuss.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I don't see a benefit to using this site over Google. So, there are a lot of restaurant review sites. But if I am actually looking for a specific restaurant on a specific site, it might have nothing. So it makes more sense for me to sear
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by AmberShah 16y ago
Actually worked with would be http://benrady.com/ , http://grack.com/blog/ , and a few other people who don't have online presences. Seen in person but not worked with would be http://twitter.com/venkat_s and http://www.nealford.com/ .
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I consider people spontaneously tweeting or blogging about it to be huge. I know it may seem trite, and as everyone loves to point out, it's not revenue, BUT it does mean they are putting their own reputation on the line that their friends
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by AmberShah 16y ago
"Nobody"? That's not likely...
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by AmberShah 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/552/
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by AmberShah 16y ago
It's sad that I first heard this was true when the whole high school shootings were happening. The shooters were "trained" via video games to shoot for the head, one shot, and then move on to the next target, whereas a novice would keep sh
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by AmberShah 16y ago
As it turns, my kid likes to eat. So, in my oh-so-unique case of having, uh, responsibilities, it would be better for me to have a paying job (even at Goldman Sachs) than to found a startup with zero revenue. Of course, that's assuming the
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I agree that the design and interface is really nice. I hooked it up to my startup Google Apps account. Basically if things are in my inbox, then I need to act on it, and if not I archive it. But when I logged into the HobsonFiles dashboa

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