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by hkarthik 12y ago
I've seen a few friends recently start homeschooling as a way to opt out of the public school system without paying for private school. In every one of these situations, the wife stays at home to raise and teach the kids while the man
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by hkarthik 12y ago
I don't think so. SXSW is more for launching and networking with VCs, marketing folks, and doing business development. Developers largely avoid it. I would stick to security and privacy focused conferences that cater to developers.
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Quite possible that the difference is due to Mexican-American influence in the Southwest US where the holiday is celebrated. FYI my high school spanish teacher (who grew up in New Mexico but was Hispanic) always called it Dia de los Muertos
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I was in a very similar situation 4 years ago when I switched from 100% .NET work in my local area to 100% Ruby/Rails work remotely. The first suggestion would be to join a Javascript developers meetup in your area. If there isn't
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A Decade of Unit Testing(openmymind.net)
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As someone that probably comes close to fitting the bill, here are the reasons I wouldn't apply. 1. You're in NYC, where everyone is currently getting obliterated by snow. For positions like this you should hire in spring or summe
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Last I checked, the metrics around prevailing wages to hire an H1B are not adjusted based on the local market. So you can get away with paying an H1B the same in the Bay Area as you would in suburban Iowa.
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by hkarthik 12y ago
The target candidate for these startups largely doesn't exist. Most folks accepting such a salary in the Bay Area are recently out of college and living in small apartments with roommates. When it's all said and done, most of thes
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The Future of Groovy and Grails Sponsorship(grails.io)
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At this point in time, the cultural issues around eating goat meat in the west are probably less of a factor and it has more to do with logistics and regulation. The supply chains around industrial factory farming for poultry, beef, and por
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Hypothetically, let's say every YC startup was to double the starting salaries for programmers they hired. So if they are paying $120K-$150K/year, they start paying $240K-$300K/year. At that salary, programmers are getting pa
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by hkarthik 12y ago
I think the technology and capabilities likely exist for Google or any other entity to do this classification for us. But it's a slippery slope. Do we want machine learning algorithms to show us what to care about? Won't that some
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by hkarthik 12y ago
2 years ago, I embarked on a project to clean my 10 year old Gmail mailbox to reach Inbox Zero, much like I have been doing at work. The first few weeks were spent using filters to delete all the junk like Newsletters, Flash Sales, Social M
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Great write up. There's likely an alternative scenario where a consultant runs into a different but similar set of problems with a company that has mis-configured their Rails app across multiple AWS EC2 machines, in the wrong security
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It's unlikely because most people move to Colorado to enjoy the outdoors. If you're working 80 hours a week, good luck enjoying the mountain biking, hiking, snowboarding, etc that Colorado has to offer. It never changed the cultur
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by hkarthik 12y ago
The only way to decrease sprawl would be to increase density, and frankly few Coloradoans would go for that. Few cities outside of Denver have tall buildings because people don't like their mountain views obstructed. And public transpo
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Highly unlikely. Boulder's incentive is also to keep the prices reasonable so that there is enough affordable student housing for the 31,000 students that live in the town. Students make up 30% of the population of the entire town. The
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Python /w Flask is probably the best technical fit. PHP would make sense only if you have someone on your team that is already quite familiar with it and knows a number of PHP developers that you can hire to build out a team later on.
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Google moving a town over would be the same as choosing a town like Longmont or Broomfield. Which is likely to be just fine, and provides just as many jobs for graduates in the area, without getting mired in Boulder politics. That's ex
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Boulder was like this when I was in college there, well before Google existed. They always capped growth at a ridiculously low percentage because of all the NIMBY behavior. Housing in the surrounding suburbs of Denver would easily be less t
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Any suggestions on a good android device (not a phone) for running Yaste? I've been extremely unimpressed with all the home theater remote options on the market now.
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This speaks to something I predicted a few years ago: professional workstation machines will go up in price substantially as the economies of scale start to disappear for the major manufacturers producing them. The only way for them to buil
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Moving to the Bay Area. It's come up quite a bit over the past few years due to the opportunities out there, but with the housing cost and all the talk of a crash being imminent, it seems like an exceedingly bad time to go for it.
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Work on having some inbound candidate flow by increasing awareness of your engineering team's brand. Start an engineering blog, and make sure you put out some high quality content, with a "we're hiring" link at the botto
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by hkarthik 12y ago
yup, that data was very obviously suppressed to keep the DEA happy and prevent meth labs from easily obtaining large amounts of pseudo-ephedrine. Ask any seasonal allergy sufferer, we all look to find out where the 24 hour pharmacies are so
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I'll add that many engineering organizations also began to drop the idea of full stack development as they grow and split up into independent, semi-autonomous teams. When you have 300 engineers writing code into one monolithic code bas
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by hkarthik 12y ago
> Now your AWS bill is something like $25-30k/month. You're at the point where the pricing differential between real hardware and AWS is getting big, and it will only get worse over time. Until you're at the point where it
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by hkarthik 12y ago
Depends on your appetite for risk. B will likely pay you in stock and/or stock options of which some portion will immediately vest and be sellable (albeit with substantial taxation). But at least it will be liquid. A and C will both li
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Sounds like the new tech leadership is taking the opportunity to scratch a technical itch (learning and building stuff on Golang) rather than giving a crap about the actual business they are helping to build and move forward. With such an a
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Where do you live? My suggestion would be to find a company with a local contingency in your city. Like 3-4 developers that are local to you and can meet up to cowork occasionally or a few times per week. It works best if you have some nice

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