blindhippo

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by blindhippo 13y ago
Prototypical freelance gig: please use Ikea furniture, our budget is not large. Just change the height of that table from 3ft to 2.75ft. Also, please make it fit in this room that's too small for it. Stack this Ikea couch on top of it, but
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by blindhippo 13y ago
Clients are ignorant - can't really fault them for it since it's not their domain. I've found it's best to let the ones who balk at the true cost walk away. They will go find some cheap service to build what they want ("oh, can you make it
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by blindhippo 13y ago
How sad is it that this article needs to exist? It boils down to one final sentence: "The Takeaway: If you create a company that encourages people to lead full lives, you can land a full roster of talent." Or translated: treat people as...
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by blindhippo 13y ago
Bit of a misnomer - talent is not directly tied to hours spent working, especially in knowledge industries. This simple, basic fact escapes most of our industry managers who still use management practices developed a century ago to manage s
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by blindhippo 13y ago
The fun part is watching people actually try to control their body language in reality. You can try, but if you aren't feeling what that "power pose" is broadcasting, you'll just look like an idiot to anyone even remotely paying attention.
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by blindhippo 14y ago
Might be true for Computer Science, but what does computer science have to do with tech/innovation? ;) Engineering programs are a great example - most provide opportunities for students to join projects outside of the core curriculum to bu
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by blindhippo 14y ago
"But being in school is not something I truly want. I love creating, innovating, pushing myself with real-world challenges and projects, and the amount of satisfaction you get from pushing something out there is tremendous." I've seen this
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by blindhippo 14y ago
" takes a few months off to do nothing" Isn't that an answer? If I was the interviewer in this situation, that would be a completely acceptable response to me. I'm sure to other people perhaps taking time off is seen as some sort of weakne
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by blindhippo 14y ago
Yes and no. While I disparage the whole "marketing" side of things, I don't necessarily discount it. A good marketer or sales person can add immense value to a business and can source and provide connections that prove to be make or break.
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by blindhippo 14y ago
It was this experience that revealed to me that I should never be working for the guy in marketing. The marketing guy should be working for me.
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by blindhippo 14y ago
This is adorable. Telling phrases: 1) "But I didn’t want to be constantly worrying about financing, loans or diluting my shares by raising funding to stay afloat. " That's nice, if you can't have 100% of everything it's not worth it. Tell
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by blindhippo 14y ago
It's not news to anyone except the writer on a site looking for link bait (and it worked). Didn't @dooce make this situation highly public? Twitter is no different then a blog... Orth was a moron and spoke for his employer - clearly he was
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by blindhippo 14y ago
You're basically gold to any agency here then :) Development + Design is like finding a unicorn. You should be aiming much higher then 70k.
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by blindhippo 14y ago
How am I confused? Get net of what? My point is that local start-ups are misrepresenting share options as "stock" in the company, telling me I have ownership when in fact I do not. And they use this notion that I am a "owner" to extract fa
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by blindhippo 14y ago
Is 4 years your sum total? If so, 70k is fantastic in Calgary for that experience. Plus, depending on your needs/wants, 70k (without huge consumer debt) is enough to live quite nicely in Calgary right now. If you managed to grab a job work
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by blindhippo 14y ago
In a sense yeah. The share option agreements I've seen haven't provided a way to flip the options into proper shares in the company that are under my name. So the company boasts to me that I have "stock" in the company - I am a "owner" when
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by blindhippo 14y ago
I largely find them through networking connections - I know a bunch of people in the "start up" community and subscribe to a few networking mailing lists. Digital Alberta and Pints & Pixels are both good sources for information.
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by blindhippo 14y ago
I struggle with this - I know exactly the difference between being in the industry vs doing local start-ups. Start-ups are more fun and I can usually forgive the pay inequity (it's about 20-30k per year less in normalized salary). If I coul
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by blindhippo 14y ago
It's the same in Canada as far as I understand - but thing is, options aren't compensation unless the business is sold or goes public. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, in which case I'll have to change my mind on this. If I'm issued s
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by blindhippo 14y ago
Man I wish more employers in my local area (Calgary, Alberta) would read this article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000050.html Every place I interview at thinks: - developers want to work in fishbowls ("fast paced enviro
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by blindhippo 14y ago
Interesting... then why are there entire systems of thought in management theory centered around motivating people to work? It's a warm and fuzzy quote, but humans don't work this way. If we're not sufficiently motivated, no force on earth
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by blindhippo 14y ago
Remove the MBA crowd, sales people and lawyers from "business culture" and I suspect the technical people will embrace it whole heartedly. All those "business people" should work for the companies talent, not the other way around.
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by blindhippo 14y ago
And this is why I'll never work for a company run by MBA driven bull-crap. Any properly managed business group will have this covered because they treat their human "resources" like actual humans - not variables in a spreadsheet. A GOOD man
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by blindhippo 14y ago
I agree with you that her actions were a bit on the obscene side. However, you are failing to see the import here. "because they said something you generally don't like. _This is what happened_" No, this is not what happened. The developer
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by blindhippo 14y ago
"Those two guys could easily be and my partner making silly phallus jokes because we fucking like to. You have no right to be offended. Which is why KKK and Westboro has freedom of speech." Sure, you can make jokes about wangs as much as yo
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by blindhippo 14y ago
No, it sure as hell was not a "good business decision". They got attacked by errant children expressing sad rage at something that while bad, was not deserving of retaliation against the company. So the result: the company ditches one of t
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by blindhippo 14y ago
One thing that I haven't seen anyone here comment on: so much for company loyalty. Say or do something wrong and your company will not even remotely try to get your back. You will be dumped as soon as feasibly possible. Both companies invo
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by blindhippo 14y ago
If I ever found out a potential hiring company went around my list of approved references to find other opinions I would immediately cease negotiations and start warning colleagues about that company. It's rude. It's invasive. If you are
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by blindhippo 14y ago
Ditto, although it depends entirely on my mood, environment and what I'm trying to do. But for working in an open office that fluctuates from high activity to periods where you can hear a pin drop, I'm finding this type of thing to be incre
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by blindhippo 14y ago
Happiness is not a concern in this. In America, the pursuit is for money and profits for your employer - an employee's emotional wellbeing is irrelevant. Now be a good serf and pop your head back down into your cubicle.

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