chrisgoman

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by chrisgoman 8y ago
It all depends on YOUR attitude and less about the employers that will hire you. If you interview with middle management, it may be hard for you to show your worth but if you interview with anybody who is an "owner" (stakeholder
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
Develop any software for your domain (lab technician or microbiology) that solves a simple problem you see or encounter daily. Identify a problem in your current day job that can be solved with software like recording data in the lab, tr
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
You were on the right track, DigitalOcean is the easiest and at $5/mo for Debian/Ubuntu, it should be sufficient for an MVP. If you are concerned about security, just follow the "simple" steps below https://
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
Yes, backup your data somewhere else. (1) Gitlab/Github for source code (almost free) (2) automysqlbackup (or similar) to an S3 bucket for your database (very cheap) using S3FS (3) Make sure you have a way to reproduce your entire serv
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
Normally, your salary is 1/3 your billable rate (for most industries). So approx $55/hr 1/3 goes to salary, 1/3 goes to overhead and 1/3 goes to profit. Overhead includes the hours you are not getting billed out (
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
No real difference IMHO, JWT just introduces some "standards" for some interoperability. Session cookies could be anything
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
There are pros and cons of JWT but if you are OK with it, it is not complex if you use a library. JWT purists want everything on the token (no database) but if you are OK with using a database, just store the token and delete it to revoke.
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
Just continue your normal life of "average" (as you say). If all $8m went into your checking account, the first "simple" step you can do is to start breaking up the $8m into different account types at different banks wit
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
https://mermaidjs.github.io/
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
Buy the older ones (2014-ish) from ebay
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
Xero
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by chrisgoman 8y ago
How much are you willing to pay? Are you expecting this to be a free service? There is a company called Altos Research
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
+1 ORM for simple CRUD and maybe the first version of getting lists (SELECTs). You will then quickly need raw SQL. I usually like to create "fake" ORM-like objects from raw SQL so that other code doesn't have to care too mu
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
Namesilo for the following reasons: (1) pricing does not change (goes lower once you hit 50+); (2) free privacy and (3) free 100 email forwarding per domain. Have not tested their DNS yet. For hosting, you guys really need to get on Digita
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
Seems like you are doing mostly reads. Implement a very basic ETL (just a dumb copy) to a DB you control. Once the corporate DB is better, hopefully you are just changing the connection string. If you have some control, a replicated slav
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
Microsoft Azure gives $5,000/yr credits to non-profits. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/azure Also a non-combinable $5/mo for Office 365 E5
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
+1. For some reason, only GoDaddy can expire all your domains on a specific date (for example 12/31) so that you don't have to renew your domain names at random times. Seems fairly trivial to implement and is a MASSIVE annoyance
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
If he is smart enough to code, spend an hour with him walking through each folder of the source code and then draw a diagram of your stack and also walk him through it. He can use the drawing to walk your clients through so it is prettier
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
Vagrant is awesome! Why would it be dead?
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
+1. Most folks here don't understand that 5% equity is easily diluted to 0.005% equity in 6 months. So now you are going to spend $50k suing the company for the $10k they owe you. OP needs to listen to people who have experience (li
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
If you are skeptical of the company's future, just take the $100k and move on with life.
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by chrisgoman 9y ago
Self-hosted Trac (without the "k"). It was usually trac.domain.com
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
If you are just throwing something together, static S3 pages with Cloudflare in front?
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
For pre-employment screening, we had court runners literally sitting through the courthouses going through paper records for each candidate on an "ad-hoc" basis. Some companies do this in a more organized fashion by having a pers
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
If you are already at $170k, you are doing good (even considering you are in the Bay Area). Like it was mentioned here, focus more on the value you bring to the company, always make decisions like you own the company. If I were the owner,
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
... start your own business is either negative dollars or $300k or somewhere in the middle with a LOT of grinding (certainly a lot more than 70 hours/week). So if the goal is to make $300k guaranteed, starting your own business is not
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
We use Trinet (a PEO) and you can have different "classes" of plans that have different trigger points. For example, when you qualify (how many days later), how much % is contribution by the company vs the person and their depend
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
You are correct, there are very strict rules so you do need to make an attempt at making money (the definition of a "business"). If you are actually making a profit (thereby paying taxes for your business entity "the LLC&quo
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
You mentioned "projects" (plural) and the way I have it setup is pretty similar to those recommending an LLC (or S-Corp) in CA. While the annual cost of $800 minimum tax plus maybe another $500 in administrative fees (accountants,
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
Ok, there is the other side to this coin WITHOUT replacing PHP http://engineering.dailymotion.com/php-7-deployment-at-daily...

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