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by hcho 13y ago
Talk to someone who actually is a hiring manager, not a recruiter. Recruiters are just middle men and most don't know what they are talking about.
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by hcho 13y ago
Poor stats in getting replies is almost always due to having a poorly written CV. Did you try having your CV to someone who does hiring? As for getting a degree, most things in recruitment are actually signalling(as in asymmetrical informat
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by hcho 13y ago
The quickest will be to copy from a real estate or a used car web site.
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by hcho 13y ago
Virtual personal assistants are quite affordable these days, it's not really a luxury.
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by hcho 13y ago
Most hiring managers delegate dealing with recruiters cold calls to their personal assistants. Anyone who's not in the preferred supplier list does not get through.
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by hcho 13y ago
There are quite a few UX issues in your detail view pages. Browsing is not intuitive, your use of whitespace is amateur at best. Your call for actions is not there. Sorry, if I am sounding harsh. These things matter quite a deal when it com
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by hcho 13y ago
Maybe stating the obvious, but did you try attending related meetups? node.js, angular, backbone, etc...You can at least get to know people who work with those. You might convince them to join, or they might know someone looking for a job.
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by hcho 13y ago
The advertised rate for contractors with modern skills in London is around £350 per day. That's your starting point. If you are good at negotiation, and find your jobs via your network(i.e. people vouch for your work), you can easily make d
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by hcho 13y ago
I won't be attending tomorrow's meetup. I'll drop you an email.
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by hcho 13y ago
Maybe you can delay revealing the fact that you are a startup. Don't mention the equity till you come to negotiation, drop "Silicon Roundabout" from your job pages. Most developers have been burnt by startups at least once. I'd try not to r
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by hcho 13y ago
I am currently contracting for a company in London, using more or less the same technologies as you do. They asked me to help build their team as well, so I know both sides of the table. I would not even think twice offering a job to someon
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by hcho 13y ago
On the notice board in my local supermarket, there are about 10 man and a van business cards pinned on. I'd probably call the one with the cutest logo.
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by hcho 13y ago
How many times does that happen? Genuine question. I never needed a van or a truck out of the blue. Is it something to do with the American culture?
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by hcho 13y ago
Because most client can't tell a wordpress installation with a theme from ThemeForest from a ground up build up. Most actually need the former, but sound like needing the latter.
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by hcho 13y ago
If you love Django, you'll love spine.js. It's ORM is the only one which has a decent Active Record implementation. Angular takes the gold when it comes to being opinionated. If you agree with the philosophy it's a breeze, if not you'll be
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by hcho 13y ago
Clients mostly with MBAlike backgrounds come up with NDAs. If I were to stereotype; an investment banker with a lower to mid six figure bonus, who watched Social Network over the weekend.
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by hcho 13y ago
No, never. The risk you are taking is tremendous when signing an NDA. Who is to guarantee that an exact same of your client's idea/technology is not developed elsewhere and your client will hold you responsible for leaking it? There's also
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by hcho 13y ago
At the very least you have to give him credit for his persistence and attempt at hacking the YC.
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by hcho 13y ago
"Su samuru"(literal translation: water sable) is the Turkish for otter. Turkish is an agglutinative language, that last u is actually a possessive affix and doesn't make sense when the word is by itself.
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by hcho 14y ago
So you too are saying government is there by populations consent. Taxes and USD are by products of that consent. So is bitcoin, or any other medium of exchange really.
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by hcho 14y ago
And what's the backing of US citizens paying taxes? If all of the population decided to not pay taxes tomorrow, what power US government has to make them pay up? Government itself operates on the backing of people's consent. That's not too
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by hcho 14y ago
Are you based in London? If so drop me an email at the address in my profile. I am looking for javascript developers for a team I lead.
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by hcho 14y ago
And yet it came crumbling down with some traffic form HN. Snark aside, looks very promising. Keep up the good work.
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by hcho 14y ago
Your point about copycats is moot. There's already a number of offshoots of bitcoin and they don't seem to matter. Creating Zoogle, Foogle, Poogle and Loogle is kind of trivial at this day and age, and many people have a go at doing that. N
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by hcho 14y ago
Again, which British. We have more accents than you have states.
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by hcho 14y ago
Leeching bandwidth? Really? This is not 1999 anymore, no one cares if their images are hot linked anymore. Be ready to be surprised, people found ways of making money from hot linked images.
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by hcho 14y ago
You are aware of the fact that YC funds at least one Bitcoin related start-up, right? Flagging this for being a scam is a bit ironic, in the Alanis Morissette sense.
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by hcho 14y ago
Maybe there's a business idea in payment processing for events.
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by hcho 14y ago
If I were you, I would focus on business side of things. You are fast approaching to a point where ageism will start to bite. A purely technical skill set can be very limiting when it does.
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by hcho 14y ago
Former. The latter is quite easy to spot and deal with.

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