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Paying a 'professional' to review my SaaS product?
5 points by ap22213 13y ago|2 comments
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by ap22213 13y ago
Until Digital Ocean came around, I'd always thought it bizzare that there weren't more serious competitors to AWS. Under the 'competitive advantage' model, it is somewhat unusual that a diversified company like Amazon co
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by ap22213 13y ago
The federal gov't injecting a few billion dollars into an economy can't hurt. So, yeah, I'm sure it helps stimulate the growth here. But, I rarely find many, if any, gov't contractors at the HN meetups in DC. There are
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by ap22213 13y ago
Exactly. I like 'medium chill'! I generally try to work a 40 hour week. Sometimes I have to put in some extra hours, but I like to be observant about why I'm putting in those extra hours, try to fix the root problem, and g
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by ap22213 13y ago
Good point.
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Also, I'm not trying to brag by posting my salary. I just think it's really important for devs (young devs, especially) to know these data points. I took the first interesting offer that I got, when I graduated from college. It wa
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by ap22213 13y ago
Washington, DC metro area.
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by ap22213 13y ago
As someone who occasionally hires, a masters doesn't really show much in terms of talent, but it does sometimes show a level of specialization. And, there are times when I need a specialist (e.g. image processing, feature analysis, st
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by ap22213 13y ago
Yes - I try to hire a lot of experienced developers. There is no hand-holding, with them. If I hire someone skilled and with a lot of experience, I can give them vague requirements and a general deadline, and I know that I'll get som
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by ap22213 13y ago
I'm 38, and Software Dev. is as lucrative as ever. I've never done any 'IT work', and I've focused almost entirely on product development, over my 16 year career. As a salary, I think I have plateaued at 160K, which
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by ap22213 13y ago
EDIT: On second thought, I think it's an interesting topic of conversation. When I'm working, my primary goal is to make money. And, when I'm working for a client or boss or customer, that means being responsive and showing
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by ap22213 13y ago
I run into the problems with date-bound data all the time. It took me awhile of doing it the hard way. Now, if I'm working with dates, I usually always have a 'DateCalculator' factory that injects dates into my domain objec
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by ap22213 13y ago
I didn't look at the source yet, but from watching the video, I understand your view, completely.
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by ap22213 13y ago
This is a brilliant MVP. Does this strategy work?
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Seriously. Isn't this the reason why we pay many billions of dollars each year for the rule of law? If you're an exceptional case that needs extra security, get extra security.
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by ap22213 13y ago
I agree. I recently used OpenCV to process some photos of some documents, and it was very awesome. I particularly liked the python 'cv2' bindings. Not bad. It was my first time really using NumPy, in a deep way, and it actuall
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by ap22213 13y ago
What are the top competitors to EBay?
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by ap22213 13y ago
Again, who said that they're evil? Maybe your politics are getting the best of you? Can't someone be against advertising and still enjoy the fruits of capitalism? Personally, I hate ads. I hate being manipulated. And, I hate th
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by ap22213 13y ago
Openness in wages (and benefits) would be a good move. It would encourage salaries to go up faster, when there are market inefficiencies.
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by ap22213 13y ago
I get what you're saying. But, in a market-based system, where universities are highly profitable, we would expect that there would be an enormous influx of capital in to create more universities. But, we don't see that. There
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by ap22213 13y ago
Yes, programming is very luxurious. And, I try to remind myself of that everyday. I earn 2-3 times that of most of my non-programmer friends. And, generally, it's been a luscious existence. But, I think the mechanisms of my brain th
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by ap22213 13y ago
It was more of a shared, collective kind of property model. People generally knew which things that people had and who currently had it. Generally, one would 'borrow' a thing indefinitely, until someone else 'borrowed'
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by ap22213 13y ago
Stealing exists at a culturally-defined threshold. One must be brought up (or assimilated) with an understanding of what is 'property' and what is not. Then, one has to also understand what is 'ownership'. Most of us
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by ap22213 13y ago
Wolfram has gobs of money, at this point. He probably just works on whatever he thinks is cool.
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OO is a very hard art. It took me a good 10 years to be effective at it. But, I learned in the 90s, when there was a lot less knowledge available. These days, it should be a lot easier - so many good resources. Anyway, I would love to try
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by ap22213 13y ago
When I encounter OO beginners, I often have them check out the SOLID principles: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(object-oriented_design... I think this person is violating at least 4 of them.
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by ap22213 13y ago
Back in 1991, at the age of 16, I was arrested similarly, for skateboarding on a downtown street. I wasn't even damaging property - just skating down the street. Three cop cars surrounded me. They got out, took my board, broke it, ma
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by ap22213 13y ago
Some classics in that list.
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by ap22213 13y ago
What is 'work', anymore? In context of capitalism/communism (and the old industrial economy), 'work' had basically meant a 'worker' getting paid to do some tangible, quantifiable task. E.g. I pay you $5
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by ap22213 13y ago
You lost me on the computer vision algorithm part.

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