chrisgoman

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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Founder = equity on day 1 or first couple of days/weeks/months Co-Founder = more than 1 of above Owner = equity earned after (sweat or money), founders are automatically owners as long as you still have shares You can be a founder
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
They can't be "too rich" where they are financially retired (they are not going to be in the same motivation level) but at least have some disposable income to engage in such an activity. It's a self-selecting network.
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Unfortunately, founder-dating is the same as normal dating but probably even harder as the stakes are higher. It's very difficult to find same "motivation-level" people (how much do they "want" it, are they as &quo
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Whole cottage industry of this following AA/NA model called Social Media Anonymous. You could have camps, meetings, therapy, etc
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Containers are the leaky abstractions of the devops world. Same pros and cons apply
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Because work and life doesn’t revolve around your schedule? If you are entrepreneur, it just gets worse unless you are the ~5-10% of the super successful ones
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
You have to pick your poison -- is doing this better than dealing with Ubuntu drama
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Always Debian Stable (currently 10.x)
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Mostly in Dropbox - Apps <= created by Dropbox - Cold Storage <= does not sync to local, large archive stays in cloud) - Inbox <= Scanbot app, Brother MFC2740 scanner)
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
that getting the degree is one thing but learning how to ship a project (aka "make it live") is another
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Should be how every company works ... you will be surprised at what you will learn just walking around. It does take some initiative from the person -- do you just want a job or do you want to be the BEST in your job
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Go work at the warehouse after your day job? So you can see what the problems are from your perspective as an engineer ...
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
If you want a company that has more chances of "surviving", apply/work for a company that can generate positive cashflow from operations. Life will be more stable, your salary will reflect the company's ability to make
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
DigitalOcean (or any of the $5 VPS) with Debian 10, you will need to know "basics" like SSH and typing some commands (a bunch of sudo apt-get _____) and then you are done. The only thing you don't have with DigitalOcean is d
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
We have non-developers so they can handle markdown but not much beyond that ... having a website where they can type stuff (this is just like wikipedia) helps us get them onboarded .. then they also can help with the issues, etc.
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by chrisgoman 6y ago
Yup, nobody in all the announcements or any other articles mentioning this new "github" has mentioned the WIKI (which is part of Gitlab) is not included in the free part of Github ... this is kind of critical IMHO
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
.. the grass is not always greener
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
Works for smaller teams and smaller # of hosts. I would say that it would start getting harder with 5-6 people and > 100 hosts. But for small stuff, it is the most awesome thing in the world. I had a structure I used a long time ago (
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
Fabric https://www.fabfile.org/ (just one step above shell scripts using python), using 1.x as the 2.x stuff is still missing things. The key is having is structure to almost be like Ansible where you kind of have "pl
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
Flutter
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
On your employment records, you should have 2 hire dates which means that they HAVE TO KNOW that you were hired at separate times by 2 separate companies. Think of it this way: if you have vesting stock, the 2nd company will NOT count
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
No, this is not right. The PEO is paying you "on behalf of" a specific employer (even if your check is coming out of the PEO's account). So you should get 2 W2s with separate amounts from each employer. TriNet (a large PEO)
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
Maybe a better idea for them would be to say charge you $10 upfront for 12.5k email credits which should last you a while. Seems like a better deal for "hobbyists" vs a bill at the end of a couple of months. For MG, they can col
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
the guys at teller.io seems to be doing it the OAuth way so technically not storing it like the scraping guys. However, it may be limited to the banks that they can connect to due to the requirement for a "real API"
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
We use Cliq.com for ACH for about 3 years now moving lots of transactions. Amounts are from hundred to low single-digit thousands (<$10k) about 200/wk. API is not as mature as Stripe but you can't beat the cost at $0.20 per t
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
I would say that if you see a possibility of recognition 2-3 levels up then you should be the leader that they need. You mentioned "large" so this may be the unlikely option. However, if you see a chance of leveling up your caree
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
Microsoft "tax". Even if you are willing to pay for a license, all the terms & how much are very confusing and not worth dealing with. Developers would rather solve technical problems than deal with even 5 minutes of potenti
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
So maybe Plaid will be what Venmo was to Zelle. I have been following this space for a while now. When Plaid came into the picture, it made Yodlee be more open. So maybe in 10 more years we will have open bank APIs. They have been trying
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by chrisgoman 7y ago
Yes
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
These are the timeless books and should be required reading Pragmatic Programmer: http://amzn.com/020161622X Code Complete 2: http://amzn.com/0735619670

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