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by hkarthik 12y ago
Upvote it
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I could see these sites working out if you have a decent amount of cofounder material in your local city. In my city there are very few so finding a good cofounder is a much more difficult prospect. I have heard mixed things about those try
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Developer Relations is really a good place to go. Google is hiring a lot of folks for their Cloud Platform to help evangelize. I would recommend check them out.
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There's another phenomenon at work in the cities which is driving the Delivery startups today: the availability of a large labor pool of people who now do these jobs to survive. In India, the following lower caste laborers have been do
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No different really. But maybe I don't want to "save" every story that I upvote?
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Excellent response. Only thing I would add is this: h) compatibility. Make sure (and test!) the compatibility of the queue with your application stack. Even though a queue may advertise support for a certain stack, the libraries will range
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To build anything non-trivial you really need both, but the frontend is generally easier to start out with and get enough visual feedback to motivate you to go deeper and deeper into the stack. The reverse is far more difficult for most peo
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Pretty awesome. I was tired of having a Google Plus account for personal use and for work just to access Hangouts. Very annoying that people would "discover me" on both Plus accounts when I did my best to hide both profiles.
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One option which you may want to explore is Assembly. I haven't used it myself but I'm interested in potentially launching something on it in the future. https://assembly.com/discover
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The problem with the debates is that it's difficult to discern when someone is debating with real authority on the subject versus appealing to authority. A lot of engineers will say things "We need to use X, because Google, Facebo
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A couple of years ago, I interviewed for a Bay Area company that provided me with a great programming problem that I've been using for years to prototype with new languages. Write a Rate Counting Proxy Service for a REST API that does
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My wife and I have been doing this for the past 5 years with two children that are now 3 and 5. The key enabler for both of us has been working remotely. We have a good preschool just across the street, so there is no commute to work or sch
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> A lot of it comes down to getting a reliable messaging infrastructure in place (trivial). Can you expand on this with some examples? We're currently spending a ton of time getting a RabbitMQ-based message infrastructure to work re
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Any particular micro-ORMs (or full blown ones) that you recommend for using with Node/Hapi and Postgres?
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Then you start to look a lot like the large companies in Asia. I have a family friend who has been a General Manager at Birla Industries in India for 25 years. His housing is paid for, his drivers are all company employees, and he is given
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Sifter by Garrett Dimon
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This is exactly how I went from not knowing Rails, to getting a high paying gig with a Fortune 100 working on a high scale Rails app within 3 years. I went from first Rails side project -> Freelance consulting -> Early Stage startup -
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I've been working remotely for the past 3 years, so I feel qualified to give you some advice here. Don't go for remote work simply because you think it will give you the flexibility to sneak out during core business hours to pursu
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My personal opinion: if you can get admission into a state university with better accreditation that attracts recruiters from Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc, it is far better to go that route. These are the only companies hiring lots of H1-b
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> Your last statement is false. Texas has many large 'liberal' metropolitan cities. I agree with this. I've lived in Dallas for 10 years and I've seen a lot of change since I moved here in 2004. The later waves of Asi
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I encourage anyone interested in cults to watch the documentary film "Kumare" which is available on Netflix and Itunes [1]. It's the story of a film maker of Indian origin who creates a cult persona and gains followers in the
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>> Your contract will specify a class of critical bugs (security, things that potentially lose previously-stored data) and a class of major bugs (things that make the system unusable). For a period of N months (maybe 12) after deliver
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We're by far the largest country (in terms of population) to attempt a conversion. That counts for something.
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I can attest to the effectiveness of the iPad app on my 5 year old. This app stimulated her interest in reading even more than us reading to her every night. She now reads at close to a 2nd grade level. I was amazed to find out that she had
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Great insight. I would say it's analogous to someone who really knows nothing about cars (other than how to operate one to get from point A to point B) trying to change a spark plug or an oil filter.
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I suggest that reading The Prince, or the various synopses of it, should be used for defensive purposes against old school, Machiavellian management rather than using them offensively against the larger, younger workforce. I find that those
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I'm going to buck the trend and say that you've got an impressive list of popular tech that will get you a web developer job. Adding Ruby might give you a few more options, but nothing discernibly different than what's alread
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I'm starting to run into more of these types of responsibilities and honestly the simplest thing for me to start taking more notes in my Moleskine notebook. I've been doing Inbox Zero for a while, and I'm starting to segment
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I played with a few of these and being proficient in Ruby, I went with Middleman. I liked WinterSmith but the source being in CoffeeScript turned me off slightly.

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