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by ericskiff 4y ago
Well, I quite enjoyed that! Well done, and I agree that I haven't really seen this type of puzzle before. It's similar to those slide around number/picture puzzles. I did a bit of experimentation and figured out that characte
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by ericskiff 4y ago
Aside from the fascinating topic, the data visualization and legwork gathering the data for this article is outstanding!
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by ericskiff 4y ago
As someone who's been around for over 10 years, I agree with this. The quality feels about the same, and still some of the most civil discourse to be found on the internet
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by ericskiff 4y ago
https://lobste.rs/
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by ericskiff 4y ago
I taught my 10 year old son how to use this because he wanted more than iMovie. He loves learning how to use effects and titles, creating lots of cuts, and intercutting between different tracks. He even did some lightweight animation using
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by ericskiff 4y ago
I'd be up for helping with this as well
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by ericskiff 4y ago
I would never ask a freelancer to work for free. We value people for their time and pay people for it. We pay people for any code or aptitude tests we put them through during the hiring process. VALUE PEOPLE'S TIME. This is not that ha
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by ericskiff 4y ago
https://render.com/ has been the closest thing to a replacement we've found (we've deployed HUNDREDS of apps to Heroku over the years, so this would be a massive loss for us as well)
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by ericskiff 4y ago
Thank you! Just installed
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by ericskiff 4y ago
We're still starting new greenfield projects in Rails every week, and I still believe it's the best foundation for SaaS products. It's great for developer speed and efficiency, the ecosystem of gems is amazing, and we've
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by ericskiff 4y ago
Hi Georgyo! :) I was jumping on here to say the same thing - we shared these guidelines with new folks regularly, and they helped us avoid some mistakes along the way. We've iterated on them of course, but it was wonderful to have a sa
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by ericskiff 5y ago
As a personal experience share: Consider becoming a consultant, either sharing your unique skills (marketing, programming, design, strategy) or if you don't have directly marketable skills, going to work for a larger firm and learning
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by ericskiff 5y ago
Fun! 171 on my second round.
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by ericskiff 5y ago
This actually happened back in 2012 or so. Major AWS outage that took down big services all over the place, took a few days for some services to come fully back online. https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/
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by ericskiff 5y ago
Thomas Friedman's "Thank you for being late" is a massive treatise on the idea that things aren't just changing fast, but that the rate of change is accelerating. https://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Being-La
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by ericskiff 5y ago
Here's my personal perspective on this: - I was at an abusive job and was underpaid - I had interviewed with Flickr and got the role, but didn't realize I'd have to move out west and so said no. I now understood I was marketa
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by ericskiff 5y ago
Fun!
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by ericskiff 5y ago
1. <Professor Farnsworth voice>Oh my, yes!</Professor Farnsworth voice> I run a "CTO-for-hire" service with about 25 devs, product managers, and designers. I'd say at least a quarter of what we do is dropping
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by ericskiff 6y ago
The excerpts from Jewel's letter to Tony are heartbreaking. It seems that she saw where he was headed, the situation he had put himself in, and what was likely to happen as a result. https://www.forbes.com/sites/an
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by ericskiff 6y ago
Here's my goodreads list if interested: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/33532141-eric-skiff?re...
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by ericskiff 6y ago
At some point I realized I was missing out a ton of learning that my business parter was getting, and I decided to get over myself and accept that audiobooks do actually count as "reading" 8 years later I have read over 100 books
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by ericskiff 6y ago
Agreed. We use a coding challenge that mimics the type of work we do, and we pay people for their time. We talk through their solutions and get a good sense for their ability to focus, follow written user stories / specs, and their fam
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by ericskiff 6y ago
As a developer turned co-CEO, developing an understanding of the differences between cashflow, revenue, profit, and overhead was critical. My recommendations are a little different from most other folks here, in that they relate to understa
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by ericskiff 6y ago
I experienced this personally as I bombed a whiteboard interview because I'd been studying scala to work with them and programming a side project in C, and literally blanked on simple ruby syntax and idioms when I started to panic. Whe
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by ericskiff 7y ago
Wait - is this not still a large part of the SoundCloud model? I host a bunch of my 8bit tracks up there and give them away for free, but I have to pay $150 annually to do it (and yes I self host as well, but the soundcloud ecosystem drives
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by ericskiff 7y ago
I think you got that backwards. Just as many people reporting being ill (illness days), but the cold shower group went to work anyway more often (sickness absence).
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by ericskiff 7y ago
As an employer, I don't expect every potential employee to list all of their previous roles. Especially for more senior people, I expect that a resume is tailored to show me their best relevant experience. Leaving out a short stint som
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by ericskiff 7y ago
I’m thinking about getting something along these lines. What chrome book did you get?
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by ericskiff 7y ago
I was like you. I spent my first 10 years after college reading essentially 0 books, instead filling my reading/idle time with news, podcasts, and other pursuits. When I started my company, my co-founder was reading books at a heavy cl
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by ericskiff 7y ago
Seconding this

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