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by issa 12y ago
I think people might be overthinking the problem here. Whenever someone is really good at one thing (say, programming), it is easy for them to get away with being really bad at others (say, manners). It's the same reason college athlet
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by issa 12y ago
Sounds like you should apply and then only worry about this if you get accepted. Chances of getting accepted are slim--slimmer for a single-founder company. Applying won't take long and is a really helpful process in and of itself. Goo
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by issa 12y ago
This is GREAT, rarely followed, advice. A good technical advisor can not only break the job into smaller, manageable pieces but can also help you vet potential candidates.
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by issa 12y ago
In an ideal world, you could partner with a developer who would built it in exchange for equity. There are ways to make that happen...go to meetups, put an ad on craigslist, etc. Just remember that developers get these sorts of offers ALL T
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by issa 12y ago
I have a cousin who is a barrister. She studied Ancient Greek at Oxford. She was hired out of school on the grounds that anyone who can do well at ancient greek can learn to practice law. From a hiring perspective, this makes a large amount
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by issa 12y ago
It's already been said, but take heed: do not do anything illegal or unethical yourself. Be professional.
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by issa 12y ago
What are your skills? Areas of interest? Whatever they are, there is a meetup group in the Bay Area that would be a great place to get started.
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by issa 12y ago
I once recorded a band. I thought we made a pretty good record, but they said they were unhappy and didn't want to pay me. Then they released the record. My point: this kind of thing isn't limited to software development. If you b
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by issa 12y ago
I've had good success with adding a text field to forms that must remain blank. Hide it from humans with CSS and then let the form fail silently if there is content on that field upon submission.
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by issa 12y ago
I want to put something more meaningful into this comment, but all I can think to say is that this is really amazing. Well done!
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by issa 12y ago
I humbly suggest changing it to "The Bolt". It's cleaner.
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by issa 12y ago
Obesity crisis solved. If only we'd all been willing to spend $5* a month sooner. * divorce lawyer costs not included
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by issa 12y ago
I'd suggest drilling down into ONE subject area. If you want to become the world's foremost expert on NFA to DFA conversion techniques, go for it! Forget about trying to learn EVERYTHING. Pick one thing, learn it well, repeat with
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by issa 13y ago
My new best friend.
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by issa 13y ago
My only advice is to hire a consultant who can give you some advice. If your site is getting taken out by 50-100 requests per second (that is a very low number), you have some basic structural flaws. A few hours of time from a developer exp
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Ask HN: PHP Frameworks. Kohana or Symfony?
3 points by issa 13y ago|4 comments
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by issa 13y ago
The obvious drawback that jumps out to me would be bombarding otherwise happy users with reports of your site going down. For example that 3am DB backup might have caused a 2 second outage (just an example...I'm sure we all know how to
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by issa 13y ago
Silly me. Here I've been buying computers all these years based on their ability to help me get work done.
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by issa 13y ago
This might seem like a strange response, but I think it depends almost entirely on what kind of person the client is. Are they the type to admit their own failings? Or are they the type who thinks everyone else is an idiot? The former will
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by issa 13y ago
This was my initial thought on reading the post as well. Forgetting about billion dollar buy-outs, a business that does reasonably well is going to build value over the years, even if the owner is only taking a small salary.
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by issa 13y ago
This cracked me up. But seriously, if you know some PHP and want to quickly be able to work on larger projects, Drupal is a great idea.
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by issa 13y ago
Treating capital as profit is just one small part of the problem. The larger issue being that fossil fuels are not sustainable. Other countries are rocketing forward (solar in germany, wind in denmark, etc) while the US is holding on to a p
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by issa 14y ago
Actual coding skills are not what makes a good developer. Being a good developer is about applying the right knowledge in the right way. I'm great at that. But I wouldn't bet on being able to out-program other competent programmers.
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by issa 14y ago
I think it's just a question of all the "normal" problems associated with development but then amplified by language, cultural, and timezone issues. No big mystery there.
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by issa 14y ago
I'm going to guess that a lot of people in the US, like myself, have been brought in on projects that were originally developed overseas--projects that we're in pretty sorry states when the product owners finally gave up and hired a US deve
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by issa 14y ago
The frame rate was the least of The Hobbit's problem. If the movie had been good, I don't think anyone would be discussing this. When a movie's opening half hour is as utterly dull as the scene at Bilbo's house, what else can the audience d
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Programmers Are Still Massively Underpaid(livelongandprogram.com)
6 points by issa 14y ago|2 comments
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by issa 14y ago
I'll have to do a follow up post to clarify, as this seems to be the common second reading of what I was trying to say. Programmers of all levels can do Macgyver Programming. I was trying to point out that it is a mistake for any programmer
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by issa 14y ago
The antipattern involved isn't the messy work. It's the management's idea that the most efficient way to work is to always do everything as quickly as possible.
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The Antipattern of the MacGyver Programmer(livelongandprogram.com)
36 points by issa 14y ago|24 comments

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