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by cat9 12y ago
Hands up, real quick, everyone who would NOT like to hire a reasonably competent developer, who actually understands what marketing is asking for, and is capable of coming up with a satisfactory solution & deploying that solution in tim
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by cat9 12y ago
No. Coming up with ideas is easy. Coming up with ideas I'll care about in a month & be willing to make sacrifices to have time for often enough to make meaningful progress is what's hard.
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by cat9 12y ago
It's not a replacement for Swift/Obj-C, it's a replacement for PhoneGap. Android support is due Soon(TM). It just launched with was ready. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/271
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by cat9 12y ago
Or $12k+ per week at 50% utilization. 75% utilization sounds a bit stressful. For that matter, $8k+ per week at 50% utilization is still $165k at the same fudge factor for taxes & overhead. That's already well beyond my threshold f
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by cat9 12y ago
Free users and paying users are often very different groups of people. Count your chickens once they're generating actual revenue.
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by cat9 12y ago
In the same way that finding developers is easier if you go where the developers are, finding sales & marketing people is easier if you go where the sales & marketing people are. E.g. frequent community sites like http://
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by cat9 12y ago
I use browser zoom at 125%. Works great. The default is small, but I almost never remember this issue because my browser remembers the zoom setting.
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by cat9 12y ago
I think Memcached is currently better in some specific cluster scenarios, which would hopefully be researched in more depth than "Ask HN" before planning. Otherwise, anything you can do with Memcached, you can do with Redis, but w
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by cat9 12y ago
Speaking as a mostly recovered ex-PhD, the factors which affect hireablility are largely orthogonal to your educational credentials, particularly if you are attempting to get hired for a job which is not gated against said credentials (i.e.
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by cat9 12y ago
May I suggest trying Slack? People behave very differently depending on the UX of the communication tool involved. Moving to a tool which reframes the implicit social contract of the conversation can do a lot to relieve problem points. Emai
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by cat9 12y ago
For any X, getting rooted is still often a matter of someone with 1000 botnet nodes to burn running a for loop against an IP range. At which point, your odds of getting rooted are the product of how desirable that target is to write for loo
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by cat9 12y ago
The traditional response if you firmly believe a stock is undervalued by a factor of > 8.6 is to buy as much of it as your finances will bear, then sit on it. It would be interesting to see whether the author does so. There's also t
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by cat9 12y ago
Try "All About Circuits" - http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/ It's widely used by EE students to help study for exams, figure out labs, etc.
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by cat9 12y ago
The most useful refactoring of this is, "have non-sales conversations with actual intended customers, learn about how they see this problem including how they're currently dealing with it, which may or may not include existing too
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by cat9 12y ago
Good stance, however, that leaves unaddressed two key prongs of this issue: 1) Is this actually a concern to the people you want to be selling to, as evidenced by talking to a number of them? Don't bother with surveys, just straight-up
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by cat9 12y ago
There are only really two ways to scale an agency, as far as I know. 1. You can charge more. 2. You take on more work in parallel. The second is usually a thing to some degree, you add devs etc., but it doesn't drastically increase you
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by cat9 12y ago
Always. It's always okay. There might be ramifications, and it's up to you to run through the calculus of whether that means more to you than getting out, but if you want out and you're fine with the results, go for it.
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by cat9 12y ago
With all due love and respect: This is something I would wrap a simple CLI around, and then kick myself in the tukhus for having ever used the language's interactive client to make raw database queries and edits on the production serve
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by cat9 12y ago
You can address most of those concerns with algebra, some light research, and Fermi estimates. This is not a problem where you need precision, just a reasonable level of accuracy and a well-presented argument.
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by cat9 12y ago
The main fallacy here is assuming I need a portfolio at all. It's quite easy to get work without bothering with that. Or a resume. Or playing footsie with HR. You filter out some opportunities, yes. But have you SEEN the market for eve
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by cat9 12y ago
I found this a bit surreal, because the answer in Flask is roughly: 1. Generate a server signing key using urandom(key_length).encode('base-64') and store it in app.config['SECRET_KEY'] via config.py and appropriate .git