andymoe

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by andymoe 14y ago
I think the promise of a ready VC funding is all that is needed to get people to come to the San Francisco Bay Area in order to seek their fortune and build businesses in the tech industry. No cringe worthy TV show needed... but of course n
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by andymoe 14y ago
You know this is one of those times where editing the title is not helpful! The title of the project is actually "Heroku Fucking Console." The edit makes me think it's pointing to something official and it's not!
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by andymoe 14y ago
The reality is if Panic wanted to save some support calls they would synchronize posting direct download binaries to their site with app store approval. You usually don't need to budget anymore than two weeks on the outside these days for A
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by andymoe 14y ago
I live in San Francisco too and I have to say it's OK to just buy the dude a sandwich if you feel bad or go ahead and help them up if they have fallen over instead of just walking by (I'm looking at you startup kids in south park and SOMA).
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by andymoe 14y ago
Minimum viable [web] programmer. An base understanding of TCP/IP and networking is pretty important in this context as well.
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by andymoe 14y ago
The problem with these types of services for luxury goods and services is they don't provide for advanced booking deposites and cancelation fees so they are generally a non-starter for people renting out in demand vacation homes or other lu
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by andymoe 14y ago
I'm not sure you could do better than what Andrew Warner has done with http://mixergy.com I know a lot of the older ones are behind a paywall now but there are 100s of interesting folks he has interviewed over the last few years. Edit: Ov
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by andymoe 14y ago
What I do is keep an up to date generic one in google docs and then duplicate it and tweak for each company I send it out to. I usually send it as a PDF or a word doc if they ask for that specifically. Either way It's pretty easy to just ex
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by andymoe 14y ago
If the job is for what I'm doing now (iOS development) vs something I did five years ago I'll respond with a quick "I'm not looking to make a move right now but check back in n months or years." It takes about a minute and it does not hurt
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by andymoe 14y ago
Awesome!
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by andymoe 14y ago
Nice! I feel like I'd like permalinks to each random quote that comes up. I don't see any on my iPhone.
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by andymoe 14y ago
Easy win for reducing the spread of STDs (AIDS) in a place where contraception is taboo for a lot of the population.
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by andymoe 14y ago
I was going to respond but I think I'll just flag it instead.
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by andymoe 14y ago
Check back Feb 1 for the monthly "Who's hiring" threads. For reference: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A+new.ycombinator.com+...
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by andymoe 14y ago
It's low for the US market but I was being foolish and did not realize you were not US based. I don't think you will have any problems demanding your current 50 or even 75 or 80 an hour if you focus on the US market provided you find high q
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by andymoe 14y ago
Would you say Heroku is big on the vendor lock in too? If you stay away from the ad-ons they are really mostly just running some code and maintaining a standard database unlike say Google App Engine. I don't see how moving to say EC2 or you
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by andymoe 14y ago
Nice. I have not tried dotcloud since it first came out and the command line and docs were just not ready for prime time. I have to say things are hugely improved since then and at least on par with Heroku and with much more fine grained co
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by andymoe 14y ago
You will get more money for iOS dev work than Rails work and it sounds like that's where your experience is. Also 50/hr is way too low for freelance iOS development and on the lower side for salaried position as well. That's only like 76k g
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by andymoe 14y ago
A friend of mine does this. My email is in my profile if you would like an introduction. He actually moved to Hawaii so it would probably have to be via Skype. Not 100pct sure he is still taking on students but it's worth an email.
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by andymoe 14y ago
Great article! However please consider updating the examples to use the full git commands instead of the aliases. I think it would make it more approachable for beginners.
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by andymoe 14y ago
Start with sqlite (Easy to set up, file based, good for playing and for embedded systems) then PostgreSQL or MSSQL if you are going to be in Windows land. MySQL later if you have to. It's fallen out of favor in some communities since Oracle
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by andymoe 14y ago
Thank you!
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by andymoe 14y ago
Just experienced this a month ago as the man as well. "Intense" is the only reasonable word I could possibly use to describe the experience. I can't even imagine going through it from the other side as a woman and, oh man, the things we lea
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by andymoe 14y ago
I'm saying that long term people are better off not publishing with you and should just be cross-promoting within their own games or just using ads so they don't have to give you a cut. Every time someone does publish with you they are sett
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by andymoe 14y ago
I beg to differ on the iStock art issue. I have seen people build large streams of revenue by starting with iStock art as a base for their games (Sure remixing etc and being handy with photoshop does not hurt) In any case the issue of iStoc
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by andymoe 14y ago
This not a good deal even if you can't make art. You can get plenty of art on iStock photo and what you don't get when publishing as an indie with someone else is the network effect of publishing multiple games on your own. This is essentia
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by andymoe 14y ago
"Ask HN:" works fine. see: http://news.ycombinator.com/ask
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by andymoe 14y ago
A noble exercise I guess but I really wish people world use some of their Objective-C skills when building these sorts of tools for working with Xcode instead of making me deal with ruby and ruby gems. If I really wanted to be a ruby dev I'
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by andymoe 14y ago
I don't know (probably not obligated to do anything) but I keep seeing questions here that should really be asked to an attorney or advisor you trust. So I'd like to make a suggestion to the community of programmers and entrepreneurs her
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by andymoe 14y ago
Probably going to need a little better pitch than need a dev team: here is my email address... What skills do you have that will be needed to "revolutionize product marketing across the web?"

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