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by flacon 16y ago
As an experienced Frontend Developer thats worked for a number of startups, this article is not well written. I prefer Developer rather than Engineer. It does seem like really good frontend developers are becoming more rare because it takes
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by flacon 16y ago
No way. Hyphenated domains are generally not a good idea since people forget them easily and have to turn to google to find your site.
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Hire me: The Rails Frontend Guy
2 points by flacon 16y ago|0 comments
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by flacon 16y ago
Having a Berkeley degree, I doubt either of those schools actually "build a better" entrepreneur. Rather they just attract really smart, competitive, driven people that typify the ilk required to run a successful startup. The networking fac
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Hire me: Rails Frontend Developer
1 points by flacon 16y ago|0 comments
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by flacon 16y ago
They really need to change the name. Something that rips off Sinatra less and promotes the fact that its a micro-framework. Besides that I would love to take it for a test drive.
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by flacon 16y ago
Want your UX/Web Design to make money? Try Web Design for RIO ( http://www.amazon.com/Web-Design-ROI-Browsers-Prospects/dp/0... )
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by flacon 16y ago
Thats how I write CSS. A good front-end dev can write one set of clean CSS for Chrome, FF, IE8 and IE7 with a small set of styles in an IE6-specific stylesheet. Combine clean CSS with SCSS ( http://sass-lang.com/ ) for mixin awesomeness and
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by flacon 16y ago
+1 for Authentic Jobs. The jobs are generally high quality but it can be quite competitive to get selected since so many people are watching this job board very closely.
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Ask HN: How to deploy an Iframe app on Facebook Fan Page tab?
2 points by flacon 16y ago|0 comments
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by flacon 16y ago
Great Article! Obscene title. Best of luck with it.....
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by flacon 16y ago
I live near Chicago so I am thinking either the part-time program at Northwestern or UChicago. Definitely considering the Berkeley-Columbia program also.
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by flacon 16y ago
Agree that nothing can replace good counsel in a sticky situation. I just want a greater comfort level on the topics.
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by flacon 16y ago
Thanks for the advice. Yeah I would definitely be doing it part-time. Yeah I too want a better comfort level with accounting, finance, contracts esp and hopefully topics like big acquisitions ;)
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To MBA or to not MBA
3 points by flacon 16y ago|6 comments
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by flacon 16y ago
Business Tier? Why ROR? Speedy development, fun programming language, easy to build, test, iterate, repeat etc. Easy to migrate DB's, lots of scaffolding to reduce amount of code you need to write. Tons of great plugins written for the stac
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by flacon 16y ago
I would prefer to download the file over streaming. Please try to record the series somehow. I would even be willing to pay for it. As would others I am willing to bet.
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by flacon 16y ago
Don't say "The position didn't work out", which would cause suspicion and make you look bad. Blame them (Flaky Corp) for acting unprofessional. Go into your current manager, tell them you are in a really difficult and awkward situation. Tha
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by flacon 16y ago
No and no. I have only had traditional stock options which are essentially funny money that are vested over a period of years. You still have to purchase the stock but after the stock is vested you just get the ability to execute once there
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by flacon 16y ago
Building a startup with a business model that is totally reliant on another startup seems like a bad decision. Might be better to diversify at this point.
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by flacon 16y ago
Options are pretty much worthless till you can execute them. Even then theres only a one time cash-in-hand situation. Believe me I have a ton of options right now and its not helping ;)
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by flacon 16y ago
"it is not something that is ready for the prime time." Thats why millions of users are using hundreds of large scale web apps right now built on Rails and/or Ruby (ie: Github, Slideshare, Hulu, Justin.tv, Basecamp, Alice.com ...the list go
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by flacon 16y ago
300K inboulder? Where do you live? 300K is like C-suite salary in most of the country.
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Rails Rumble 2010 Registration Now Open(railsrumble.com)
12 points by flacon 16y ago|2 comments