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by angelbob 16y ago
They're not saying they're all superstars. Like racism, ageism doesn't just apply to superstars. "We will achieve equality not when a female Einstein is made an assistant professor, but when a female schlemiel ears as much as a male schlem
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by angelbob 16y ago
I've met at least one internal recruiter (i.e. recruiter for Scribd, not a general headhunter) who was good. Presumably there are equally competent headhunters out there... Somewhere.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Your FAQ and testimonials links do nothing. If you do have any testimonials, put one or more somewhere visible. Right now you have no social proof.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Perhaps he's living in the Silicon Valley bubble. His experience looks a lot like mine.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Heya! My MVP is called "www.wantmyjob.com". I'd love an entry on RateMyMVP :-) What info should I send you? I don't see an easy "add a project" link...
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by angelbob 16y ago
You can join kickuptheass.com and join our "build and app" group with daily updates. It's not FB, and it's well adapted to letting everybody know your progress.
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by angelbob 16y ago
couple guys from Hollywood called and said that i should go to LA for big guys in Movies and entertainment industries Is it your full-time job? If not, don't do this. You are talking about a huge investment of time for sales. Are you a
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by angelbob 16y ago
Most recruiters really are terrible. What we need is some kind of peer-to-peer job-hunting site that will let you find out what jobs other people are doing in software engineering, and just go straight to other engineers who know what th
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by angelbob 16y ago
I have always, always wondered that. The answer seems to be "have lunch".
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by angelbob 16y ago
We hire remote workers. If you're curious what we do, I just put together a slideshow on how we're using JRuby and Rails to replace our old Java infrastructure piecemeal: http://portal.sliderocket.com/AIMWD/Replacing-Java-Increment...
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by angelbob 16y ago
There's also a bunch of us that are building November Apps that are using Alex Muir's kickuptheass.com. It's also for daily reminders and group status sharing. Hard to say yet if this is a complementary service or in competition. In the
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by angelbob 16y ago
There's Jakob Neilsen, of course: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ For your part B advice, it's almost a one-stop shop.
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by angelbob 16y ago
don't charge individual users) by month's end, but I hope to have at least one user who has entered interesting information, and be able to give out interesting recommendations in return.
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by angelbob 16y ago
I have a common-ish name for a prospective new product. No brand built yet, and I wanted to make sure the phrase wasn't used by somebody else. Google Alert on the phrase for a couple of months and, yep, nobody else seems to be using it, s
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by angelbob 16y ago
Godwin's law says it's time for everybody to go home now.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Look at IE9. IE is going fast right now... So yeah, but that's not actually a slam of FireFox, weirdly enough.
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by angelbob 16y ago
And yet Chrome, presumably among the most modern of browsers, still doesn't have search/replace that works in a textarea.
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by angelbob 16y ago
I love Rails, and this is still the best summary of the current situation I've seen. I just spent way too much time getting passenger and rvm and rails 2 and 3 to (all) play nice together in a deployment environment, though, so I'm biased.
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by angelbob 16y ago
A liquidation preference, expressed as a multiple like 1x or 2x, says that the investor gets that multiple of their money back, before anybody else gets paid, on an exit (sale of the company, IPO, etc). Normally the LP is paid separately f
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by angelbob 16y ago
Part of the problem here is that in the ridiculously fast-moving Ruby and Rails world, you need <i>something</i> reasonably stable. The standard libraries could speed up, but would then need to worry more about bad ideas ma
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by angelbob 16y ago
It's fairly rare, honestly. You see it occasionally, but it's often a pain when you do. Interestingly, Facets (a non-Rails support library similar in scope to AR) has exactly the same problem. So mostly this is an argument against similar
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by angelbob 16y ago
My career had a huge dip like this. Take a big step back, maybe a day or two off, and try to remember what you loved about coding. Then get the hell out of the tar pit you're in and figure out how to spend more of your time doing that. I
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by angelbob 16y ago
Ooh! Versioning the data in databases! That is a feature I'm looking forward to. Rails migrations alleviate some of the traditional pain here, but don't go very far on actual data. Having a database you can check out with real versioni
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by angelbob 16y ago
We have five engineers on our team, and eleven in the company (I think? I forget if we hired one more in Colorado). We use a somewhat-modified scrum. Stand-up meeting daily at 10am, board with hour-estimated tasks divided into stories tha
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by angelbob 16y ago
While it does have that "make money fast" vibe, be sure to A/B test any way that you modify it. Around here, we love minimalist, careful designs which may not appeal to the "make money fast" crowd who are your primary customers. So not onl
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by angelbob 16y ago
Is it a time-of-day thing? The tenderloin seems way worse at night.
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Building a Rails 3 and Devise (Authentication) App, Step by Step(blog.angelbob.com)
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by angelbob 16y ago
Trying to convert some gnarly test fixtures into a Machinist file in JRuby on Rails. After that, 10% time, but probably still on test-related topics. If I don't think of anything that needs it more, installing Cucumber and getting it hook
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by angelbob 16y ago
I read about at least one study (different description, illustrating the same principle) where they gave a set of teachers a list of students' names with numbers next to them. Apparently it was implied (or just not stated, which would be s
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by angelbob 16y ago
We deployed it to production recently, and we were well aware of this. I feel their documentation is quite clear on the point. We're also using it single-server, but only for analytics where loss of a small amount of data isn't a big dea

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