gringofyx

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by gringofyx 13y ago
All SEO is immoral. Back then, it wasn't widely regarded as being immoral - I knew it wasn't right, but there was a lot of pressure for results. Basically, if we couldn't make an impact on Google, we'd have been fired.
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by gringofyx 13y ago
> I should have smelled a rat, but at age 20 I didn't even know rats could smell.
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Thanks for reading (and the tips) I think .Net gets a lot of (undeserved) bad press. Beleive it or not I started out as a SmallTalk, Javascript & C++ developer but there wasn't a lot of love for that skillset back in 2002.
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by gringofyx 13y ago
First Hack: Live close to work (I run home) - this will give you more time in the mornings and evenings Second Hack: Have an understanding wife (she's either running her own business or catching up on soaps in the evening) Third Hack:
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Hmm, OK I'll remove them. But, I am still proud of the work I did during my time there.
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Most managers think of themselves as being the biggest and most important cog in the machine. However I've seen Directors and CEO's sat there playing solitaire not really knowing how they got to that position in life or what role
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by gringofyx 13y ago
If you read the comment by @grabeh you'll see that it's probably quite easy to research. In my reply to @grabeh are the reasons why I didn't give more details (such as the founders name). I would have no problems if anyone el
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Firstly, thanks for reading ;) Secondly, I'm making a subtle point - when I started with the company he lied about his name and called himself "John Snow". I only found out it was a lie months later. I also want to protect th
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I'd love to write more about the experience, but the post was already a bit long. Thanks for taking the time to read it ;)
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I totally agree, it's one of those skills that's hard to prove, I'm not sure I'd put it on my CV.
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I didn't know this straight off, I found out in my first week that he had this data and I didn't know where it had come from. In the next few weeks he got a bit panicky, and told me the data was going to be "audited" by
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by gringofyx 13y ago
That's what I'd like to tell myself, but he now has quite a high profile in the UK startup industry. It's one thing to know how to grow a company from the very beginning, but to run and sustain a company that has tens of mill
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I'm on a very quiet marathon to build twelve startups in twelve months, I'm in my third month and everything is on track so far. I will blog about it all when I hit six months in. My day job is a Technical Architect for a PLC in t
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I'm curious to know if people think it was in bad taste to add that detail?
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by gringofyx 13y ago
That's right, on HN - gotta have an eye-catching title.
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Apologies about it being so long
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Hex, Lies and Startups(codingjohnson.com)
208 points by gringofyx 13y ago|141 comments
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Carrot-and-Stick Startup(codingjohnson.com)
1 points by gringofyx 13y ago|0 comments
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A Founders Mistruths(codingjohnson.com)
1 points by gringofyx 13y ago|0 comments
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An Awkward Conversation(codingjohnson.com)
89 points by gringofyx 13y ago|104 comments
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Show HN: A Better HN Twitter Bot(twitter.com)
1 points by gringofyx 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I made a replacement newsycombinator(twitter.com)
1 points by gringofyx 13y ago|0 comments
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I made a new one at https://twitter.com/HackerNewsYCBot
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by gringofyx 14y ago
I haven't got a clue why they classed it as a Trojan. I've tried it was a few PhoneGap/Cordova cloud builds and they all get blocked by Sophos. Probably a false positive on their end
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by gringofyx 14y ago
Just tried to do a download of a cloud built APK and was stopped by Sophos - confirmed on their site. Kasperskey did the same thing at the end of March
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Cordova/PhoneGap just got classified as a trojan by Sophos(sophos.com)
2 points by gringofyx 14y ago|3 comments
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by gringofyx 14y ago
Sure thing mate, my email address is mc underscore gringo at hotmail dot com
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by gringofyx 14y ago
Web & SOA are a given, design patterns and high performance concurrency are all a given and there's strong signs of that all over my CV. Also, I've worked at Insurance companies before, I thought all of that might be enough to get my fo
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by gringofyx 14y ago
But I could work from anywhere Uk or Europe based
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by gringofyx 14y ago
London

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