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by concerto 12y ago
Obviously the author has more of a historical overview, but, anecdotally, I am getting the same quantity of contact concerning roles as I have ever done, but there seem to be more and more recruitment companies moving into the ruby space. I
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by concerto 12y ago
I think relevance is the thing to work on. I did a search in a space I know a lot about and the majority of first page results were domains for sale. The company I have an interest in, which is the first result for certain keywords on Googl
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by concerto 12y ago
Interesting. I wonder if the current Ebola outbreak is going to lead to major, lasting changes in how people greet each other. E.g. Liberia loses its handshake: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29260185
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by concerto 12y ago
Two stories next to each other on the home page with someone called Ryan Shapiro in them, in both cases he is 37. One where he is an foia activist [1], and this one where he runs a company profiting from prisoner's families. Are they t
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by concerto 13y ago
If the majority of users take the small bag, which seems logical, then I can't imagine you would be able to upsell them easily to a product that was 5x the price (indeed the author acknowledges that), the upsell opportunity there would
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by concerto 13y ago
The sales incentives make no sense. He made 1/3rd commission on the smallest bags, 1/5th on the medium and 1/6 on the largest bags. It is better for him to sell lots of small bags than 1 big one. In addition, assuming most cu
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by concerto 13y ago
You say fortunate, I say foresighted. In any event. I imagine that he started building it to meet his own needs and the growth of revenue now is a happy side-effect.
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How to recruit frontend developers?(littleowllabs.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by concerto 13y ago|0 comments
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by concerto 13y ago
I am considering switching to Amazon RDS, but would welcome hearing other suggestions too
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by concerto 13y ago
Mine are paid for, so I will need to pay for another provider to take them over - not to mention the migration/testing time. They are still listed as a provider on Heroku too.
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Xeround discontinuing cloud DB service
11 points by concerto 13y ago|4 comments
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by concerto 14y ago
I always wonder with paywalls if they would be better leaving the news for free and charging for the opinion and unique content, as there are always going to be free places to get access to the news.
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by concerto 14y ago
The email they sent out said: Today, we are introducing subscriptions to the Telegraph website. As a registered user of the Telegraph website, you can continue to enjoy free access up to a limit of 20 articles per month without subscribing.
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Telegraph erects Paywall(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by concerto 14y ago|3 comments
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by concerto 14y ago
I would say that programming is for everybody who is interested in how stuff works. While a career as a programmer might not be for everyone, it can be useful for someone who needs to create presentations or word documents to be able to wri
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by concerto 14y ago
My first thought too. What kind of budget did the kids have on this day out? How do I get my kids into that school?
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by concerto 14y ago
I don't think you can argue for democracy and then complain when the countries elect people you disaprove of.