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by hkarthik 14y ago
I think that's a fair assessment, and it's one of the reasons I left .NET about a year ago. The average .NET developer usually works in a 9-5 corporate environment that is completely bought into the MS ecosystem. This environment has tradit
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Hire a solid consultant or consulting firm to train up your existing talent and then learn how to look for new trainable talent in your area. Also, be willing to pay more for high talent that may not know Rails today. Don't assume that you
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I'd agree with this, but I think the reason that more .NET developers don't revolt is because there seems to be limited uptick on some of the newer features. E.g., generics were introduced in .NET 2.0 around 2005, but it was very common to
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by hkarthik 14y ago
> There's an expectation that web platforms can accomodate near-automatic horizontal scaling with maybe just a couple config-file tweaks. That expectation is unrealistic on any platform for which you can easily hire developers. I can at
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Microsoft and the Mono Project have both doubled down on C# as their language of choice for the CLR. Rather than really push for greater adoption of F#, it seems that they're letting F# incubate functional programming concepts, which later
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by hkarthik 14y ago
LOL thanks for the correction and the useful mnemonic trick! I was fairly certain 'ringable' was not a word so I fudged the quote. Unfortunately, even 'wringable' isn't a word. I guess it has to be 'wring-able', which just doesn't look righ
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by hkarthik 14y ago
This is a really interesting post and makes a lot of sense. I've now worked in a couple startups that raised enough money to hire for Stage 2 or 3 before they launched an MVP. In fact, raising early actually put more pressure to hire since
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I've experienced the same problem, and I attribute it to the culture of "no accountability" in so many organizations, both large and small. When I first learned scrum, the product owner was described to me as the "single, ringable, neck."
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by hkarthik 14y ago
This is dangerous thinking, and is the primary cause of organization destroying nepotism.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Ultimately, the issue right now is nobody really knows how much users are worth. There's a lot of speculation that if your site has a lot of users (20 million or more), your company is worth a lot of money. Even if you really have no idea h
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by hkarthik 14y ago
The financiers are, in general, folks that lived through the dotcom bust. That's the perplexing part right now. You'd think they would know better.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I suspect that this "lifecycle of talent" is a part of SV's secret sauce. As manufacturing becomes even more amenable to rapid prototyping, this sort of culture could be applied to that domain. (Is it already?) I've wondered the same thin
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I've been speaking to a few of the more established startups in the Bay Area that built apps on Rails and have started migrating the performance hotspots to the JVM. There's definitely a pattern I've seen. 1) First version of the app is bui
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by hkarthik 15y ago
All of these things are doable, but require a combination of people and their skills that are very difficult to find. You need the following: 1) Product people that have shipped code themselves in the past and can provide enough detail for
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10 things you didn't know Rails could do(speakerdeck.com)
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Ilya Grigorik at RailsConf 2012: Making the Web faster with PageSpeed(igvita.com)
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Part of the problem is that the dev tools most game developers use are still centered around Windows. Visual Studio is still the hallmark IDE for Game developers everywhere. In addition, the tools developers in gaming studios still build mo
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I'd go to RubyJax and meet up with the Ruby programmers. You'll have a lot more in common with them than you will with Enterprise .NET or Java programmers. And who knows, you might find that you like Ruby too.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I've got the opposite problem as a tech guy that likes to build stuff but I don't have the business/marketing skills needed. I've been pitched a few times, but I'm very picky about the opportunities I'd go after. I've listed myself on the H
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by hkarthik 15y ago
They have revenue, but at just $3MM in revenue, it still looks like they are operating at a loss. Doing some quick calcs: $3MM Revenue / 34 employees = $88,235 per employee. In most major US cities, that wouldn't even cover the base salary
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Don't get disheartened. I'd be surprised if most startup job pages had conversion rates much better than this. The job market is white hot for programmers right now, and it's easy to get lost in all the noise. When you're a startup, you're
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I was in a similar boat, and I decided to take the pay cut and spend a few years building my way back up. I'm much happier this way than I ever would have been in a managerial role that I never wanted.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
The title initially made me angry, but there's a lot of truth in this post. The sad fact is that once you cross 35, the salary growth slows considerably for most engineers and you have to jump to management roles to make more, even if your
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I'm sure you're also facing some problems finding folks to move due to the high cost of living in Northern California. I've been open to moving out there for jobs, but based on what I've seen, the salaries aren't high enough to offset the t
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by hkarthik 15y ago
It's not the wrapping of the language that is the issue. Unless you're writing bytecode by hand, every programer deals with some abstraction. The issue is wrapping a language with a higher level abstraction, but then proceeding to use your
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by hkarthik 15y ago
There's a larger point in this post about using frameworks with the language they were designed for. Using another language to wrap a language you don't like to use a framework is often extremely limiting and awkward. As a developer trying
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Interesting to see so many down votes to my comment. Even Microsoft leadership has admitted ASP.NET MVC is a better choice for public facing (non-intranet) websites. My comment was only to make the point that they were using an outdated web
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Their webpages end in .aspx and that means they are using ASP.NET Web forms. So I wouldn't expect them to be very cutting edge in terms of modern browser practices. Sad but true.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I had a friend that made it through, he said they were told to keep it under wraps. There is precedent for teams that reveal it to lose their interview spot.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I've found that assigning a label to myself like '501 developer' is counter productive. My productivity and flow tend to come in waves. I've noticed that there are times that I'm so interested in the problem at hand that 5:01PM just blows b

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