hkarthik

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by hkarthik 16y ago
I used to have the same impression that there weren't many devs over 40, and if you found one, they were likely to be a little senile. I've now realized that this is more due to the corporate (or wanna be corporate) environments that I've w
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by hkarthik 16y ago
I just read the full transcript, and yeah, it was all over the place.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
Great post with lots of good info. Especially important for apps that utilize a lot of JavaScript. We've been getting bit by this lately in ASP.NET MVC since it has no built in strategy for dealing with browser asset caching/ expiration.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
As a Texan that would love to see more talented engineers and innovative companies here, I agree with you. But we have a weird mix here. Houston and Dallas have the rich people, but Austin has all the nerds. We need more cross pollination o
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by hkarthik 16y ago
You should only offshore a mature product that's past its prime and just needs maintenance programmers to keep it alive and prevent it from blowing up. Any code changes will be bug fixes only and you won't be enhancing this product much. Fo
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by hkarthik 16y ago
I'm also a DFW resident and doing the same with my wife as a co-founder as well. We should start a club or something ;)
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by hkarthik 16y ago
Great story. But look how times have changed. I can't imagine many company leaders today choosing to stand their ground and put their own heads on the chopping block. I'm not sure when it happened, but this kind of servant leadership doesn'
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by hkarthik 16y ago
Glad to see you guys coming back to Texas. We definitely need a larger startup community out here.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
That's awesome, I was going to go with UserVoice for my feedback widget, but I'm gonna have to support a fellow Texas startup and go with you guys now. I'm based in Dallas myself.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
As a total Linux n00b, I was given the advice to also run SSH on a non-standard port 4 digit port like 4232 instead of 22. I don't know how effective that is, but it sounded like good advice to me.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
LOL how depressing. Guess I'll just have to live vicariously through the other posters. Lesson to the rest of you, get SV living out of your system before you settle down and have kids.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
You won't regret switching to either one. But Ruby has a larger community right now. And the support of some big companies too.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
I've always found acquisitions go well when it's a big company augmenting their offerings with a new offering that they don't currently have. They can take the new offering and pump more resources into it to make it more successful. This th
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by hkarthik 16y ago
Most experienced technologists know the real danger in ever claiming to be an expert in anything. Rarely will two jobs be so similar that the expertise gained from a previous job can guarantee the same level of output in the new job. While
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by hkarthik 16y ago
Like others mentioned, I've also come across more bad PMs than good ones. It's tainted my general view of PMs, and I rarely recommend that anyone go into that line of work. It's all too easy to fall into ineffective roles as a PM, and many
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by hkarthik 16y ago
I'm sure that taking a time off to raise small children until they are school age plays a big part in these stats. From birth to kindergarten that's about 5 years of being a stay at home parent. If you're a developer, think of what differen
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by hkarthik 16y ago
Sounds like you weren't experienced enough with the technology before you went after a full blown effort to build a product/site. I'd recommend building some throw away project for fun that might still be useful to you. That will help you l
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by hkarthik 16y ago
Start with building an app that you can be proud of. Others have mentioned working for free, but if you're going to do that, you may as well build an app for yourself. Treat it as a client project and be willing to put some money into it to
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by hkarthik 16y ago
Very cool, thank you all for the info! Good to know that most of the Google Analytics stuff is good enough for tracking conversion rates via Javascript.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
The corporate job where I'm at right now has this exact problem. HR has made termination require a LONG process that starts with a 6 month "performance initiative plan" before enough data can be collected to fire someone. And even then it r