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by akg_67 12y ago
This case is a good example of plight of donation supported products and users unwillingness to support Volunteerily. If it wasn't the threat of project shutting down and the article about it, I doubt project would have recived the fun
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by akg_67 12y ago
What can you offer to the companies in foreign country that they can't get from locals? As an American, you may be a desirable English Teacher/Trainer in non-English speaking countries. China, Korea, Japan seems to hire a lot of f
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by akg_67 12y ago
> trust to internet services are very low What could you do that doesn't require "trusting" the internet? This may be the key to any project you might consider. You may want to look for ideas from the time periods when Int
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What do you want to happen to your Social Media Presence after you Die?(theatlantic.com)
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Great Personal Finance Rules condensed in one page(wsj.com)
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by akg_67 12y ago
With questions like this, 2015 hype cycle has started to look like 1999 hype cycle. I will encourage OP to read this Quora thread before considering such a move. What was Silicon Valley like after the bubble burst in the early 2000s? http:
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Ask HN: Advisor Participation and Compensation – Best Practices
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> Who has to be oncall during Christmas/4th of July/etc? This was the biggest issue on our team. Who is going to cover what holidays? We used to circulate a list of company holidays, birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and "
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by akg_67 12y ago
I did pager duty (on-call) for 8 years in my last job as part of professional services team. I actually enjoyed it as I thrive in stress situations. We had a good team and boss that also helped. Some of the suggestions based on my experienc
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by akg_67 12y ago
OP I don't know of the startup or company that is doing it as business. If you find out, please share. Sometime I represent companies in IT infrastructure and related industries at Seattle area events. Majority of such requests come to
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by akg_67 12y ago
You may want to consider Japan. Last year, I spent two months traveling and working out of co-working spaces in Sapporo, Sendai, Yokohama, and Tokyo. It was the most productive, most relaxing, and fun time I had. Safe all around, very organ
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by akg_67 12y ago
Are the users leaving because of reported severe issues? Are the revenue declining? Can you related revenue decline to reported "severe" issues? Do you know or understand the constraints your CEO is working under? While there may
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by akg_67 12y ago
Having worked in Backup/Recovery for over a decade, I consider this to be the minimum requirement. Instead of offering 4 backups in a month for 10% of hosting cost, DO should have let users decide how many backups they want and charge
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by akg_67 12y ago
This is the reason you never stop raising until money shows up in your account. Forget about investors dragging their feet, focus on recruiting the new investors. Once you have the money from some investors in your account/check in han
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by akg_67 12y ago
I agree. I expected backups to happen every day and being rotated at weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis. I may have to reconsider relying on DO backups.
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by akg_67 12y ago
Business: Digital Ocean (VPS), GoDaddy (Domain Name), Namecheap (SSL), PhpStorm (PHP IDE), PyCharm (Python IDE), Sublime Text 2 (Text Editor), Balsamiq (Mockups), Tableau (Visualization), Dropbox (storage), Stripe (Payment), Paypal (Payment
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by akg_67 12y ago
"None of my friends who are outside of med school believes in the stress and depression as they only see the high salaries and good life doctors are living but doesn't see the stress until you enter the field," Grass is alway
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by akg_67 12y ago
I have two people in my close circle who made jump between medical profession and information technology and vice-versa. [1] My cousin became a medical doctor and practiced for a year. He just couldn't disconnect himself from his patie
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by akg_67 12y ago
Unfortunately 44 is too old to make a career switch especially to programming/development. In my personal experience, Ageism is much more prevalent in IT and Technology field. Once you hit mid-forties, it is very difficult to find a pr
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by akg_67 12y ago
"The chance that an American programmer will work on software harmful to humanity is quite small. The chance that a North Korean programmer will do so is massive." It is the same argument made by nuclear non-proliferation countrie
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by akg_67 12y ago
Go with GS. In the end, you want to work for companies that will be accretive to your future career growth in the industry. Also, you want to make sure not only you have technical experience but also domain experience that will be more valu
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by akg_67 12y ago
Yep, keep the amount low enough so that it is not worth the time for receiver to do much research or push-back. "They don't care if I remove the image" The above statement was the red-flag that tipped me of this being potenti
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by akg_67 12y ago
> They have a long explanation about liability and such. Can you summarize the liability explanation? Is the sender a lawyer/law firm or someone just claiming to be the copyright holder? IANAL, ask them to provide how they arrived a
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by akg_67 12y ago
I spent October and November in Yokohama and Tokyo. I tried out a few coworking spaces in both places. You will find quite a few events/meetups through such places. Co-Edo Kayabacho Tokyo https://www.facebook.com/CoWork
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by akg_67 12y ago
Go freelance. Clients don't give you technical quizzes to test your qualifications. They care about whether you can deliver and have you delivered before.
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by akg_67 12y ago
This used to be very common with offshore oil drilling too. You work 21 days straight on an oil platform and then get 14 days off. Company paid all expenses while on the platform and also paid air travel to/from your home base to the t
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by akg_67 12y ago
Have you received a copy of NDA for review? Instead of outright declining NDA, I will suggest you review the NDA, identify the clauses that you have concerns about, let the client know your concerns and request to modify/remove the rel
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by akg_67 12y ago
IANL, but at one time I was on H-1B and now US citizen. It is not illegal to own a US business on H-1B. Also, there is no issue with business owned by H-1B having revenue, for example from ads on a blog. If you own a business, you can issue
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by akg_67 12y ago
We have been traveling in Japan for past 4 weeks (another 2 weeks to go). Talking to regular folks, there seems to be divergence between what regular folks thinks need to be done compared to government. The regular folks want to see Dollar-
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Aboard Amtrak(spnzr.com)
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