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by hkarthik 15y ago
I like the idea of a hacker centric browser that peels away the cruft that typical end users like to see and makes Inspecting HTML/CSS, Debugging JS, and Performance Diagnostics a first class citizen in a better way than Web Inspector or Fi
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I agree with you, but in practice I've seen that even if a company wants to go distributed, they lack the knowledge on how to make the model actually work for them. They resort to using the exact same process with more conference calls and
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Finally. They should have done this a really long time ago.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
How do you think things would have gone differently if he had answered with a clear yes? I think, at best, he would have gotten a few more phone calls, but the rest of the story would have been the same. Few startups are well equipped and c
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I actually saw Scott present some of these tools in person at User Group meeting in 2006. It was a lot more useful to see some of them in action rather than just read through a big list.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I think that this is true in Silicon Valley and possibly NYC, but not in other areas. I firmly believe we just haven't churned out enough CS graduates nationwide over the past decade to meet the demand of both the startups and the establish
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by hkarthik 15y ago
As someone that doesn't live in an area with lots of VC funding and investment activity, I disagree that there is no shortage. It's always been very difficult to find talent but lately it appears to have gotten harder. It hasn't been consid
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by hkarthik 15y ago
You really have to hire mostly experienced folks to make things work on a distributed team. You can hire juniors and let them pair with senior devs, but they still need to come with some previous experience. If you want to hire interns, you
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by hkarthik 15y ago
FYI the site should be up now. It's loading fine for me.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on what these projects entail? Maybe a short description and how long each project went on? The work I do tends to require a lot of collaboration as we figure things out and experiment. Having a one day delay for eve
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Beating the Talent Crunch with a Distributed Team(hkarthik.me)
87 points by hkarthik 15y ago|49 comments
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by hkarthik 15y ago
This sounds like my story exactly. I would have hacked on personal projects using Lisp or Smalltalk. My curricula was based on C++, and I could never quite grok it. Ironically, I didn't "get it" till my senior year when I took a graphics cl
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by hkarthik 15y ago
At the end of the day, no matter how much equity gets passed around, it's unlikely to pay out big unless your company goes public. Too many companies attach conditions to their equity and too many acquiring investors and big companies will
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Maybe he's hanging out with transplants? I find that a lot of transplants tend to carry this attitude, no matter where they're originally from.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I get this, as I worked in a startup and saw how many of the early employees started to fill in leadership roles within the company. However, we had remote teams too and they worked out just as well. Our VP of Development for a long time wa
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by hkarthik 15y ago
In general, you can find more opened minded folks in the urban areas of Texas. You start to see more of the crazies as you go farther into the suburbs. I've had many gay coworkers and they usually stayed close to the city (I live in the DFW
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I'm a developer in Dallas and many of the same things are affecting our market, although we're mostly big companies and less startups. I personally work with a geographically distributed team and as long as we meet face to face on occasion,
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by hkarthik 15y ago
You're not evil, Jon, you just profit from being evil.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
If the good guys are Haack, Hanselman, and Conery, then the bad guys are nearly everyone else.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I think This Developer's Life is hosted by Rob Conery.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Those complaining should look back to 2000 when a deadpooled startup left a gaping hole in the economy with lost jobs, bad investments with ordinary Americans, and a negative impact on every other startup in the space. Given the alternativ
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by hkarthik 15y ago
where are you located? I think in most metros, folks are starving for programmer talent right now. Move to a new city, go to meet ups and hack nights, and you'll land a job in no time.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
There's some decent points about how negativity and pessimism can be debilitating. And that applies to everyone, not just entrepreneurs. But it's hard to see that through the rambling. If you're more interested in how negativity and pessim
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Gowalla's been doing some interesting things with Cassandra, so this sounds like a great fit. Congrats to all involved!
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Cassandra at Gowalla(weblog.therealadam.com)
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Great to hear that your company is forward thinking and willing to make the considerable investment to get off the MS Stack. You might have more luck finding some Oracle DBAs and training them up on PostGres. There's a lot of similarities b
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Even MVC is a little heavy and you don't get a lot of things for free with it. Compare it to some of the Java OSS projects like Enunciate and it still requires a lot of extra work. On the .NET side, I would suggest looking at Demis Ballot's
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Such comparisons are often difficult since MySQL and Postgres typical perform significantly better on Unix based systems than they do on Windows. Also using the Windows/.NET libraries for connections tend to perform worse even if the databa
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Anyone know if this has been published as an epub? Thats my preferred way to consume e-Books these days since I can share bookmarks between my iPhone and iPad using iBooks.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
My wife has an MBA from a top university so I can speak to this from some experience. I think an MBA still provides value for those looking to take established startups and turn them into viable, Fortune 500 businesses. These are the folks

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