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by gaustin 16y ago
That's it.
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Depending on your embryonic product and where you are geographically, you might be able to find someone excellent. You up your chances if building your product helps someone build a portfolio (especially open source). Offering some equity w
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by gaustin 16y ago
I don't believe it's legal for a for-profit organization to hire interns in the US without paying them[1]. Obviously that might not apply in other countries. Anyway, the work you give an intern would depend on the skills and maturity of the
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by gaustin 16y ago
(67) ClickApp I built something similar at a previous job. I never really thought that anyone outside the domain it was built for would use it. Now this has got me thinking about it again... I wonder if it could be marketed to the same sort
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by gaustin 16y ago
I'm working through Walling's "Start Small, Stay Small" and I found a couple of niches that seem ripe for the picking. The problem I'm having is how to get a foothold (information products, apps, starting an SEM vendor, etc.). I haven't fou
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I'm working to become one such person at the moment. It would be awesome to be able to do so while working somewhere like AirBnB or CarWoo. By the time I'm an expert at this, I might be making enough money that working for others isn't real
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by gaustin 16y ago
Regarding the stackoverflow link: I think it's telling that the accepted answer is the one the poster wanted to hear (i.e., a very optimistic estimate). I wonder how often such things happen on Q/A sites, and how often it ends up misguidin
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by gaustin 16y ago
What domains? I read (or click through) to most everything that hits the front page and never hit paywalls, except for academic journals. As annoying as it is to be blocked by a paywall, I don't think that's a valid criteria for censorship.
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by gaustin 16y ago
I should also build my brand and portfolio more. That, I think, is the biggest barrier next to geography.
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by gaustin 16y ago
It seems that despite the ever decreasing barriers, people just don't want to hire, or aren't comfortable hiring, remote workers. I live in Montana. I grew up in Kansas City, and went to school in NY. There is no language barrier, I'm a ski
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by gaustin 16y ago
Do you have any idea how difficult it would be if you found a great employer while on the working visa, and wanted to make the move permanent?
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by gaustin 16y ago
The way silent auctions (charity or otherwise) I've participated in usually do it is to have a list of bids near each item. You can circulate throughout the evening, changing your bid until bidding closes.
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I don't have all of the relevant information. The obvious missing piece is how much other people value the item. It seems kind of silly to be upset by being outbid when you are participating in an auction with public bids.
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by gaustin 16y ago
I'm wondering this same thing for myself. I don't want to give the school a fixed number. I want a live body that can call me. I might go over my "limit" if it's within reason at the last minute...
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by gaustin 16y ago
The talks will be fun and informative. Enjoy them, but don't get distracted taking notes. Talk to everyone. Ask them about what they do, and what they're interested in. If you make any sort of connection, add people on Twitter, Facebook or
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by gaustin 16y ago
I wonder what it would take to remove the dependency on the .NET runtime. Could anyone with relevant experience and knowledge comment?
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by gaustin 16y ago
Most smallish startups want to see a solid portfolio of projects and/or open source contributions. I have similar problems to the OP, and don't have much of a portfolio. What I do have is boring stuff from my day job (the small amount I can
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by gaustin 16y ago
> So when you're having a day like the one I describe above, it's the equivalent of showing up at the gym one day and finding you can suddenly bench press 50 pounds more than yesterday. So it's not so far out of the ordinary to be unexp
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by gaustin 16y ago
I think The Stand is one of his best novels. It is also one of his longest novels (almost 1,000 pages). It is also one of his earlier novels, so maybe it's missing "the fat."
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by gaustin 16y ago
For me, my offer of help in the RoR Offer thread was motivated out of two things. First, just because I like helping where I can. Second, I might get the opportunity to work on something cool, or meet someone new, that I might not otherwis
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by gaustin 16y ago
I'd like to give back, too. I don't mind NDAs either, as long as I don't have to fax anything.
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by gaustin 16y ago
$620 per month at about 7% average (3-4 loans between 6.x% and 8.5%). I've got $5k left one one loan that is $150 of the monthly payment. I'm going to dip into savings and pay that off in the next month or two. That'll leave me at $470 per
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by gaustin 16y ago
How do you escape the trap? I'm not that far in. I'm 28 years old. Just got married. $42k in student loan debt. No kids. But it still feels impossible to escape the momentum of keeping up. My job pays well but not well enough to quickly esc
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by gaustin 16y ago
I probably spend less time thinking thoroughly because I can type fluently. If I typed slower, I'd have to be more confident that what I was typing was reasonable. It's probably just a discipline issue on my part.
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Definitely. Unusable software is as bad as none at all. Unless someone is paying well, I'm not going to deal with the issues.
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Awesome. Thanks for the discount!
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I find the raw canvas API to be a little bit clunky and unwieldy. The syntactic sugar makes it a lot more likely that I'll use canvas without a second thought. Making something more pleasant, even just a little bit, can lower the barrier en
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by gaustin 16y ago
>I think the fear for Windows being "late to the game" isn't that MS will have a hard time getting mindshare, but I think they are going to have a hard time getting "developer share". Microsoft already have huge developer mindshare. All
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by gaustin 16y ago
I had a full time job like this (but Ruby on Rails). I lasted about three months before I gave up. I fled when I realized I would never be able to change the way they did things.
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by gaustin 16y ago
#2 is exactly what I've been going through for the past two years. I'm on my third job in that time, and I'm still miserable. All three jobs are ones most sane people would be THRILLED to have. Three very different environments, all with re

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