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by gedrap 12y ago
There was a number of similar active threads over the years, some great ideas in them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588 https://news.ycom
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by gedrap 12y ago
How did you market this book? Do you think having 1k twitter followers helped with sales?
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by gedrap 12y ago
Could you share more, what information on betting? I was looking into this area.
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> I'm just not sure you can teach these things to a junior programmer, and actually expect to see results You can't expect to teach them and see results immediately. But teaching them (and supervising / reviewing c
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by gedrap 12y ago
One I see regularly is not testing code or writing tests that are useless. To some extent, it's related to the mistakes mentioned in the post: messy code is hard to test.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Why do you ask for a permission? If I am working on a task and code got a bit too messy for my liking, I'd simply refactor, it's simply part of the task. Working != complete. If something goes wrong, it will be easy to revert give
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by gedrap 12y ago
The whole 10X thing (which sounds like some superhero myth or whatever) is much simpler then we sometimes want to believe. The work we do is not that unique. While often it will not be identical, but will share a lot in common. We learn wha
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by gedrap 12y ago
Agree. Other, somewhat similar problem, is that it is actually hard to buy bitcoin. I don't feel like sending a copy of my ID to some exchange (which can be gone in a year or two). I wouldn't mind sending it to some established fi
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by gedrap 12y ago
We should aim to keep the mass media out of our perception, because all it cares about is generating clicks :) They don't care about plain simple failures, but they are large part of startup life. One day they will move on from startup
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by gedrap 12y ago
Welcome to selection bias. A lot of startups completely fail but that's not interesting, "<a startup you never heard of> has failed" won't get many clicks on TechCrunch. People share stories about how they 'fa
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by gedrap 12y ago
I was disappointed by the content... Most of it is somewhat obvious and something I just skipped. I expected to find something valuable at least at the end, some insights for example in the front end concerns section (e.g. ideas for dynamic
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by gedrap 12y ago
Agreed. When you open the editor page, it's not obvious that there are more tools you can use. Also, there's very low contrast between the theme being edited and the tools bar on the right, it's quite confusing.
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Digital Ocean: A Case of Great Marketing and Product Management(blog.gedrap.me)
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by gedrap 12y ago
When I was freelancing, I tried similar sites and stayed away. It is largely a race to the bottom in terms of prices, and writing unique cover letters consumes a lot of time. I had much much better results with a monthly 'looking for a
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> But if someone came to me with another offer in hand, I would be extremely unlikely to make a counter offer. At that point it is just too late. Exactly. I don't understand asking for a counter offer at all. Even if you get
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by gedrap 12y ago
That's a solid point. I agree with you when it comes to small pay raises - usually the pay is not the problem, if the person is leaving for extra 15% or so. >>> very short term relief from the real reasons Unless the real reas
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by gedrap 12y ago
That's absolutely true. Giving a person who has proved his/her value the 15% pay raise they want or something similar is so much cheaper than letting them go, hiring someone new, training them, and hoping they will work out. Unfor
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by gedrap 12y ago
Financial crimes at this scale are extremely complicated and it's not as straightforward to just say 'send HSBC to jail'. Who's guilty and guilty of what is outside my armchair lawyer knowledge, maybe you are in a better
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by gedrap 12y ago
It's not the main reason, but it's natural to be curious if someone is using code you spent so much time on, and there's nothing wrong or anti-open source about that.
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by gedrap 12y ago
I have a little bit similar, just not so sad story. I was ~12 years old (around 2004), I really wanted to learn programming but all I had was a cell phone (one of the first budget class phones with GPRS, Nokia 3510i). I had very little acce
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by gedrap 12y ago
Angular performance has nothing to do with handling a lot of traffic.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Nit-pick, but I don't agree with his definitions of complexity. >>> The second reason software is slow is known as space complexity. This is a measure of how much 'space' or memory a computer needs to run your soluti
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by gedrap 12y ago
I really like the content marketing approach DO took. If you google for some standard server maintenance problem (e.g. migrating from Apache to nginx), it's usually DO which is ranked first. Their posts are relatively high quality, and
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> I'm not so sure this assumption is correct; at least it hasn't been demonstrated as true (AFAIK). Might be. But the cost to produce Candy Crush Saga and a AAA title is, well, different. But if you try to find a non-di
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by gedrap 12y ago
Well, yes, but you can't download clothes using torrents ;) Similar idea would be that ideas of movies and video games should not be copyrighted. IANAL, but there are many many similar movies and video games and don't think there
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> sharing of information But what TPB mainly distributed, was not information, it was products. And they are not essential products, you can live just fine without TV series or movies. People don't die because they can'
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by gedrap 12y ago
Checkout Octopress. It generates HTML pages from markdown and you can host it in e.g. S3. When I hit HN or /r/programming homepage a few times in the past, there were no scaling / performance issues and I paid maybe $0.5 for
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by gedrap 12y ago
What I sometimes don't understand, is the emphasis on being a female / ethnic minority like in this post. Sure, some people are intolerant, but if you go with 'maybe: being the only female / minority' it gives me a
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by gedrap 12y ago
You should change your attitude a bit. it sounds like you are desperate for a job, while you should be thinking that you need a job which would be mutually beneficial for both sides. The attitude helps a lot in various stages. You can start
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by gedrap 12y ago
Feedback, as discussed a lot, is a dangerous thing. May start endless discussions, trying to see things as racist/sexist/whatnot, and it's meaningless as decision is already made. Most of the challenges take an hour or two, s

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