bobfirestone

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by bobfirestone 13y ago
"95%+ of non-founding employees don't know s---- about equity," Pretty much sums up the entire situation in 1 sentence. I am curious about what securities laws are being violated for failing to disclose material information.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
+1 for take the job offering more money.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
* I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. If there is an actual concern you should talk to a lawyer. Probably not. If you are doing it on your time and not using company resources any claim to the outside work by your employer a
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Having problems hiring a senior level developer? Increase what you are offering by $50k. In the current market a competent developer who want a job, has a job. If you want to be taken seriously start with a serious number.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
If you are using rails or Sinatra I am a fan of cloud66. It manages deployment and you can back it with a half dozen different cloud providers. If you have load balancing enabled you can hook up to multiple servers from multiple providers.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
This sounds a lot like a friend of mines story. At 15 his family life was spiraling out of control and he dropped out. Until he recently quit his job to do his own thing he was making just an obscene amount of money. He started by taking th
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
On ad supported ventures (web based) in the past I relied on ad networks with existing inventory to display (ex google adsense). The payout is lower than selling ads directly but my thinking is part of something is better than all of nothin
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I don't give that info to recruiters. There is no reason for them to have it. When they ask I simply tell them when I am hired I'll give it to the appropriate person.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Absolutely money. With money you can buy a phone or access to a phone if needed.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I am really confused about what the problem is. Unless you are seeing something different from what I am seeing. The icons are obviously email, twitter & Facebook.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I work on a jRuby/Rails project. The most difficult issue with going to jRuby from MRI is c gems. For example if you are using the ruby racer to compile assets you have to swap it out for the java based ruby rhino. If there isn't
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
What do you want to do and where do you want to be in 10 years? I work for consulting firm and work with a lot of foreign born programmers. To get work visas most of them have masters degrees. The majority of college what you are doing has
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I had to fix my Dad's iPhone. His email stopped working and he could't download apps. His email was broken because he changed his email password and instead of changing the password stored on his phone setup a second account to th
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Rails. Plain old straight rails.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
It seems that all projects the last 10% takes about 50% of the development time. If you are already burned out the only thing I know to combat burnout is some time off. Preventing burnout is setting boundaries and pacing yourself. Not worki
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I heard from a coworker who met Ryan Bates at a conference a couple of months ago that he is building a new house with a recording studio. Building the house is a big distraction and should be back once that is done. When that will be is th
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I would say 100% test coverage is actually a maintenance nightmare in the making. 100% coverage would require fixing broken tests ant time you change things in your code. If you are testing the right things 25-35% coverage is probably all m
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Find someone to pay you a professional rate. You get there by working your but off. I recommend specializing and going deep in one area. Knowing a little about a lot if things with no real world experience is not a competitive position. Ha
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
S&P through a low fee mutual fund or ETF. It is boring but over the long haul will probably have the best performance. If I was placing an all or nothing bet with $5k it would go in bit coin. I doubt the volatility will go away anytime
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I'm looking at it on an iPad and the text is quite difficult to read. Symmetry is visually pleasing. The three blocks in the project section are all different heights and each has a different sized image which is awkward to look at. Wh
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
People loosing confidence in it. With no one & nothing backing it there is nothing to prevent the value from going to 0. The only thing keeping the value of bitcoin from being 0 is the willingness of people to trade them for other thing
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Las Vegas, NV Tony Tseh Hsieh and his downtown project are spending ~$350 million to build a tech community in downtown Las Vegas. - Las Vegas is a cheap place to live. Depending on your needs you can rent a house for under $1500/mo.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I buy and read a lot of programming books. For me reading books helps. I have a conscious plan about what I am trying to learn and using books is the fastest way to get there. It is true that there is nothing written in any programming book
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
At work my second display is a 27" iMac. It is connected to my other 27" iMac via thunderbolt.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I learned to code by reading lots of books, writing lots of code and getting involved in a local user group. If you want to learn Ruby and Rails a couple of good resources are Learn to program by Chris Pine (an intro to ruby) and the rails
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
The only site I have Adsense running on does $50-60 a month. That covers the hosting bill. There were a couple of months that the site was doing between $100-120 but that was only for like 3 or 4 months after the launch.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Companies live and die by sales. The top earners in most companies are commission sales people. The reason for this is really simple, the sales department drives revenue. Every other department from engineering to accounting are expenses.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
If you want to teach professionally in a formal school setting you are going to need a degree and the appropriate teaching credentials. There is a lot you can do to start spreading knowledge today. Start with presenting at your local user g
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Yes you will be hated and it won't change anything. There are members of your team who will agree with some or all of the points you make you will still be known as the a-hole. Additionally that is just way too long to be persuasive. M
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
When I open the page on my iPhone the page keeps reloading so I can't actually read any of it.

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