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by akg_67 13y ago
However, with the rise of the code puzzle/challenge test/work sample, I wonder if it might be time to forge a new professional ethic where it's understood that it is an important courtesy to give an applicant's work att
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by akg_67 13y ago
I contact companies and people posting to hire FT and freelancers. I posted only once as ad in Seeking Freelance thread, received no inquiry. From March thread, I contacted 12 companies through email or online applications.
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by akg_67 13y ago
I visit HN few times a day. It is my guilty pleasure and a quick break from the work I may be doing. If I comment, I browse often to see if anyone responded or to follow-up on my comments. I read articles and comments if I find article titl
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by akg_67 13y ago
My experience as job applicant: Who is hiring, March 2014: I received three responses to my applications. One for code samples (no follow up afterward), one for quick phone conversation, and one for phone interview (Ed: three different comp
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by akg_67 13y ago
Less than 1% of my registered users have donated. The average donor contribution is little over $20. I have a few donors who donate on regular basis. Recently, I started offering donor exclusive features on my site. It is still too early to
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by akg_67 13y ago
Are you trying to write user registration from scratch? There are already these components available with most frameworks in Python, PHP. You don't need to reinvent. These framework come with appropriate DB tables, primarily in MySQL o
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by akg_67 13y ago
Another option is to consider donation during beta phase. Ask users to pay whatever they want (don't mention minimum and maximum). This will provide you some idea about price customers willing to pay and what type of customers value yo
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by akg_67 13y ago
What SaaS/Software are you building for Enterprise? in what domain? I have worked at Enterprise all my career. Based on my experience, 1. Determine what domain you want to focus on. 2. Understand the pain points of enterprise customers
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by akg_67 13y ago
I would like to know too, as we are thinking of relocating to Bay Area from Seattle.
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by akg_67 13y ago
We use Quicken, Personal Capital, and spreadsheet.
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by akg_67 13y ago
The study helps figure out the severity and seriousness of the problem. There are wide range of treatments, from lifestyle changes to extended treatment with drugs, maintenance drugs and surgery. There is no one treatment that applies to ev
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by akg_67 13y ago
I am using Time Machine and Windows Backup to Time Capsule and Drobo. A friend recently hooked me up with a 1 year trial license so I am also currently testing CrashPlan from Code42 on Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines.
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by akg_67 13y ago
Thanks for the whitepaper and video. So, at high level the resource provider is accepting Bitcoin instead of dollars to provide a virtual instance to a customer. Does this sums up what you are trying to do? I have hard time imagining who mi
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by akg_67 13y ago
The study measures the pH over 48 hour period near the entrance of stomach. This helps determine the frequency and strength of acid reflux into esophagus from stomach to assess the severity of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Typical
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by akg_67 13y ago
Like your concept. I am very interested in OpenStack myself, more look at it as a building block for private cloud. Sounds like you are trying to create a NOVA pool for virtual instanced from excess available CPU/memory capacity of the
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by akg_67 13y ago
A few months ago, I had a BRAVO study done for acid reflux issue. Basically, a capsule with wireless transmitter is attached to esophagus wall. You carry around a bulky wireless receiver with antenna sticking out that records pH readings fo
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by akg_67 13y ago
You may want to read this blog post from Prof. Damodaran. I thought it was one of the best valuation/ pricing article I read on Whatsapp acquisition. http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2014/02/facebook-buys-w
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by akg_67 13y ago
Personally, I prefer multiple pieces instead of one big table. I just use a simple $69 IKEA white table top with 4 straight circular metal posts. But if I want to expand, I will buy another one and put next to existing one.
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by akg_67 13y ago
I will suggest checking out following resources: Books * Nathan Yau, Data Points Visualization that means something * Stephen Few, Information Dashboard Design The effective communication of data * OReilly, Visualizing Data Software * Table
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by akg_67 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - SEATTLE WA | REMOTE Work focus: DevOps. System Integration. Infrastructure solution design, evaluation, implementation, deployment, and administration. Performance troubleshooting and management. Infrastructure focus: Data St
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by akg_67 13y ago
Very cool. Thanks for sharing the link. It gave me some idea to improve upon my approach. I like the idea of planning one task for each category at start of the week. Right now, for me that weekly task list stays in my mind instead of showi
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by akg_67 13y ago
I agree with you about ambiguous/open-ended tasks. I experienced the same. And also I don't like to spend too much time trying to list out specific tasks that I need to accomplish every day or do too much context-switching between
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by akg_67 13y ago
Any media is as durable as the availability of media reader. I seriously doubt, in 15-20 or 50 years, you will have the media reader available to read either of the media, whether tape or BD. How many 8" or 5.25" floppy disk drive
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by akg_67 13y ago
Each LTO-6 tape cartridge stores 6TB of data. Each quadruple layer Blue-ray disk stores only 128GB. I am surprised that FB went with Optical Disk instead of Tape. Optical jukeboxes/libraries for MO/DVD/CD used to be popular a
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by akg_67 13y ago
Make yourself feel guilty as much as possible and break your routine by introducing a new non-coding non-computer activity in between your guilty pleasures. Based on my experience with procrastination and trying to break it, how about your
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by akg_67 13y ago
Recently, I started using Ghost as personal note journal on my Mac. I reviewed several non-Wordpress self-hosted platforms and finally decided to test Ghost. Ghost was easy to setup, there are a few free good themes that you can use or crea
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by akg_67 13y ago
I used to think like you. My limiting factor was that I didn't know how to program. But things changed couple of years ago. Finally, I decided to learn to program on my own. It was most liberating thing I did. Now, any idea I come up w
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by akg_67 13y ago
Try Glassdoor for reviews, interview, and salaries to get idea. Ten years of relevant Java experience will net you about $150K in Seattle area. There is no harm in pursuing further, worst case scenario, you turn Amazon down due to lower com
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Peer to Peer Lending Ready to Grow in US(knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
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TED Talks are Megachurch Infotainment(news.yahoo.com)
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