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Totally agree. This is the book I usually recommend to people wanting to get serious about Javascript.
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Any relational DB will work but I would look at Postgres before going with MySQL.
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This is a good skill set for San Jose or Austin, not so great for Dallas unless you want to work for one or two of the local telecom companies that are still investing in engineering here.
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If all your experience is in the corporate world, then yes, I would recommend you join a startup first while there are startups available that will take you. Even if you have to take a paycut to do so, it's likely going to be a lot mor
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Immigrants in Europe often don't assimilate because the host countries don't provide a path to citizenship for them or their children. Once the native populations fall to critical levels, I suspect these practices will change. Onc
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Are the government officials using the scientists to further their own geopolitical ambitions? Or are the scientists of both countries using their government officials to fund their scientific curiosities? Probably a bit of both, IMO.
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Markus Frind was in the right place at the right time. When he launched PlentyOfFish, most dating sites were subscription-based and he came up with an ad-based revenue model. By being free for users when there were no alternatives, he quick
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If you're hyper-growth, the needs of your startup will outgrow your team of 1-3 very quickly. You and your small team will get overwhelmed by either your infrastructure (servers melting down under load), customer support, or user acqui
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> The “50 people” was motivated by his dream that we could just have the very, very best developers in the world, and hardly any salespeople—it was just talk. I think he came to appreciate the sales culture later on. I found this statem
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We do project based interviews for candidates with the right backgrounds. If you want to know more, my email is in my profile.
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Once you start thinking about immutable infrastructure and auto-scaling, service discovery becomes very important. Let's say you have a load balancer with 4 web servers behind it, each with its own IP. If you hit a traffic spike, you&#
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> There is a lot of money in enterprise software... I wish more YC startups would tackle that area. Enterprise Software requires more much investment in Sales/Marketing so these companies often they invest a lot less in engineering.
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Honestly you should just work on a personal project for a few weeks, and apply to a few places as a junior dev. Or go to some local meetups and see if someone will give you a shot. If you're okay with taking below market pay, you can a
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Agreed. It had more to do with determining the skill sets required for a successful founding team. Which is only one step. The next (and probably much harder step) is finding people WITH these skills that are willing to work together on a s
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Health is only part of the issue. The growth of ethnic minorities worldwide whose dietary restrictions keep them away from lard is probably very significant. Devout Hindus, Muslims, and Jews won't consume products containing lard deriv
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In the startup world, it's definitely struggling. But I think it's doing far better in Enterprises that are building private clouds. When a startup is faced with setting up a complicated OpenStack environment versus just using AWS
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This is like asking "I need to commute to work, what car should I drive?." There are many factors at play with creating and running a SaaS-based business, and often technology plays a minor role. Even less important is how fast yo
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Seems like a great fit! I saw a talk given at HeavyBit from Marten Minks about Open Source Business models. Really good stuff. http://blog.heavybit.com/blog/2014/7/21/video-release-former...
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Pair program as much as you can in this situation. You'll pick up a lot, and gain confidence to suggest improvements by starting with one-on-one interactions with your pair. Then find a new partner, ideally someone less strong than you
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> Also regarding founders giving up large amounts of equity to VC's so they can afford developers: there is a very simple solution. Give employees more equity. Take out the middle man. That's been tried a lot and is often refer
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I'm around the same age and started reading Anandtech when I was a high school teenager in the late 90s. We scrounged together cash to play the latest version of Quake, upgraded to the latest 3dfx Voodoo cards, and overclocked our Cele
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Anyone using Kafka with AWS? I'm concerned that it won't be partition tolerant enough to use it there. http://aphyr.com/posts/293-call-me-maybe-kafka We chose RabbitMQ, but we're achieving durability by
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From Wikipedia: However, as with many North American aboriginals, the Sadlermiut were often susceptible to Western diseases. By 1896, there were only 70 of them remaining. Then, in the fall of 1902, the British trading/whaling vessel
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> Your FooDB implementation could be using any number of underlying technologies MongoDB, LevelDB, SQL, etc and it can change as your app changes and this change is transparent to the rest of your app (since the rest of your app uses Foo
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Absolutely, I'm not claiming the US doesn't participate in forms of barbarism. We had a completely different set of unjustified justifications for the Iraq invasion, but we didn't use tradition as the excuse.
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> Whaling is a tradition in Norway and has been going on since medieval times. Jumping in a longboat and pillaging neighboring villages was also a Norwegian tradition in medieval times, but we find such practices barbaric today.
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Hiring a contractor is a good idea, but make sure they are hired with the potential to become a technical cofounder. My suggestion would be to hire someone who can rewrite the PHP code into something more maintainable like Javascript, Ruby,
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The thing about AWS is that it's basically a one stop shop for everything you need infrastructure wise. Many startups can avoid having specialists for infrastructure in the early stages if the default choice is "use AWS" for

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