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by hkarthik 14y ago
Hire someone to handle the system admin duties for you first while you spend more time looking for the right fit for a Chief Technical Officer or Chief Architect. Also I would consider hiring a less senior person for your first technical hi
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by hkarthik 14y ago
One man's spam is another man's industry-standard email marketing.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
This is excellent feedback and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Regarding the full service option, is this fairly common today? I found quite a few services in the Church niche (one was on Andrew Warner's Mixergy podcast a while back
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by hkarthik 14y ago
To me this is where targeting the niche really comes in. Instead of going for people searching for "how to build a website" I would go for "church websites" or the equivalent for the niche. The templates would be pretty boiler plate, and re
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Ask HN: Are niche website builders a good space for bootstrapped startups?
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I love my Retina MBP. I had a 13" Air before. The Air was great for most things but too many tabs or certain websites with intense Flash movies or Javascript would send the fans spinning and really make it churn. This rarely happens on my r
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I'm curious where those of you who "left the gaming industry" ended up. Are you guys now belting out CRUD apps using the latest web framework like the rest of us? Or did some of you walk away from programming all together? I'm just curious
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by hkarthik 14y ago
While parts of this are straight forward, I find it amusing that switching from Postgres on Heroku to MySQL is glossed over as such a trivial step. Why not just stay on Postgres when you move to your own server?
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by hkarthik 14y ago
This is the classic case of someone who excels at "managing up" but is deficient at "managing down". The way most of corporate America is structured today, most managers are incentivized to manage up. That's why great managers are so rare.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I built a product which had the following goals: 1) Free to consumers. 2) Paid plans for business to get access to leads generated by the above consumers entering their data. The problem was that I did all my upfront market validation with
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I currently work at a company with a monolithic Rails app that we are looking to break into a SOA and port parts of it to other, more efficient stacks. Part of the problem with Ruby is that you really need to throw massive hardware at it to
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by hkarthik 14y ago
My ideal work environment would be small co-located teams of 3-4 really smart people. The team should be colocated together with easy access to Product people and should consist of design, frontend, and backend developers. The reality is I
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Having been primarily a backend developer for most of my career, I generally view these services with suspicion. But the rate of new entries into this space makes me wonder if one day I'll be considered a luddite for thinking this way.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Care to share any examples of the kinds of things that the HN crowd tends to gloss over?
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by hkarthik 14y ago
2.54 / 10 years.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Rails is still relevant, but it's worth having a high performance language in your back pocket to deal with those high scale problems that Rails is just not very good at. Many developers have started leaning on Java, Clojure, Scala, Erlang,
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Residual value on luxury cars is mainly bad because the maintenance costs on a luxury brand cars quickly go into the stratosphere after the factory warranty runs out. When the warranty is running out, you're hitting time for new tires, brak
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by hkarthik 14y ago
This is pretty true in India, which is divided into states mostly by linguistic lines. I've heard "dialects" which sound distinct enough to be separate languages (Marwari versus Hindi) and "languages" that sound similar enough to be dialect
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by hkarthik 14y ago
This is a great post. Back when I was a corporate developer doing .NET, I never had many side projects. Maybe just a library or simple utility to do things like move photos around. Now as a developer primarily working in Ruby, I always feel
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by hkarthik 14y ago
That helps a little. A good school district would mean paying 3x more for housing. A bad one means paying 2x. Either way it's going to be a small place. I'd recommend looking at Sunnyvale if you want something reasonable and schools don't m
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by hkarthik 14y ago
If you are single, you can probably live there with minimal life adjustments. The rule of thumb with housing is that you spend twice as much for half as much space as compared to most parts of the country. If you have a family with school a
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by hkarthik 14y ago
US Tax reform is one of those things I don't expect to happen in my life time. Our government is too addicted to the income stream it provides and is just too scared to mess with it in any meaningful way. All it takes is a fear monger with
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I would go with Technical Product Manager. There are a number of cloud services companies (Amazon, Rackspace) that have folks onboard with this title. I believe they are usually former engineers who work closely with technical teams to defi
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by hkarthik 14y ago
From a timeline perspective, let's see how the rule of 3 startups would work out to become King. Ages 22-25: Fresh out of college, work for a startup as an employee and learn the ropes, build connections, and level up with the right skills.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Any Googlers care to chime in on this? I've heard Java and C++ are pretty entrenched in Google these days so there's a lot of inertia to get people to try Go for production level work.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
My biggest problem was the matchers and mock support in MiniTest::Spec. I think RSpec is further ahead here with better support for both. Avdi Grimm agrees: https://twitter.com/avdi/status/180394364357443584
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Awesome well kudos to you for pushing forward with the Unix learning. My suggestion is to get a good local mentor or coach that you can email or have coffee with once in a while to bounce things off of. That did wonders for me when I got in
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I'm curious if you're given Ruby and/or Rails a shot? I jumped from .NET to Rails 3 years ago and found that the ecosystem being mature and large helped me get over all the typical humps of losing IDE support (I code in vim full time now) a
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by hkarthik 14y ago
In general, to get anything done with Node you're going to be pulling in open source libraries with C-based dependencies to do things like resize images or talk to databases. Many times you'll find that you will hit cross-platform compatibi
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by hkarthik 14y ago
If you're writing code in Node.js, I assume you're doing it on a Unix (Mac OSX or Linux) development environment. If that's the case, I would suggest AWS or something like Linode. While Azure has Linux support, I think you'll probably be be

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