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by joeax 11y ago
That used to be true a long time ago but the game is changed. $25/hour will buy you a junior dev at best who barely speaks English and is 12 hours away. And this developer needs constant communication to be productive. More often than
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by joeax 11y ago
How about hiring? Instead of being restricted to talent in the 30 miles radius around your office building, you can effectively hire anywhere in the country, or the world. No need to displace someone and their family from their existing com
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by joeax 11y ago
37 Signals, Stack Exchange, Dell, IBM, I hear Microsoft has a few remote teams too. A lot of TC startups put "SF or remote" in their job ads. Go to Stack Exchange careers they place an emphasis on remote. On the flip side, there a
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by joeax 11y ago
Since I work in tech, I've been acting like one is inevitable. Saving a little more, spending less. Fixing up my house in case I have to sell it. Having my resume up to date and networking with recruiters instead of just blowing them o
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by joeax 11y ago
I can tell you from my own observation that these "tech bubble" articles are becoming more and more frequent. TechCrunch, Bloomberg, BI, others. Correlation, perhaps, but something to consider. To your second point - on the surfac
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Show HN: Svidget.js – SVG widget framework for data visualizations(github.com)
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by joeax 11y ago
Nice concept, but is $9.99 per letter a good value? Also, some basic message templates to choose from would be helpful, like "Barking dog", "Please mow your grass", etc then just let the user edit/tweak the rest.
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by joeax 11y ago
During the housing bubble years, there were bubble articles as early as 2004, although it didn't truly pop until 2008. I remember I would sometimes frequent housing bubble blogs in 2005-2006, and there you would find a lot of vitriolic
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by joeax 11y ago
I think a better question to ask from all these 'bubble' articles is not whether there is a bubble, but whether the bubble will pop suddenly and dramatically, or slowly let out air?
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The Tech Industry Is in Denial, but the Bubble Is About to Burst(techcrunch.com)
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by joeax 11y ago
Digg, Delicious, Mixx - lost to reddit Plaxo - lost to LinkedIn Bebo - social media space became too crowded Geocities - died of natural causes Netscape - slow to adopt after v3
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by joeax 11y ago
I just checked and Microsoft BizSpark is still around. They give free software to startups and even mentorship. https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/default.aspx
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by joeax 11y ago
> The tooling is expensive (Pro, Ultimate) or crippled (Express). Visual Studio Community 2013 (and 2015) are completely free and nearly fully featured. Gone are the days of Express being a super lightweight VS IDE. I used to buy Pro for
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by joeax 11y ago
Looks good. I would make make different colored dots (or styled differently) for MLB, AAA, AA, etc clubs. It would also be cool if I could select a major league team and its minor league affiliates light up.
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by joeax 11y ago
I recommend you take a look at Rob Walling's blog: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/ He also runs the Microprenuer Academy that focuses on helping and promoting one-person startups. His key advice: focus on a niche industr
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by joeax 11y ago
You heard George. In all of history it's never been done.
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by joeax 11y ago
THANK YOU for being able to search for remote jobs. That is awesome! Now some feedback - browsing the map/zooming in bloats out my back stack. A couple back clicks is ok, but it took 20+ just to get back to where I was.
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by joeax 11y ago
My biggest excitement is that in the past few years JavaScript is now regarded as a first class language, and we're seeing these new versions i.e ES 5,6,7 in a rapid development cycle. I remember being told in the 2000-2002 era that JS
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by joeax 11y ago
I've worked and talked with various dev/IT consultants over the years, and the advice I've gotten boils down to this: specialize in a niche or product. Don't just be a web development consultant, for example. Be a web de
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by joeax 11y ago
Although arrow functions are nice, they've been around in the form of lambda expressions in C# and other languages for some time, so the initial reaction was more of a "about time" rather than a "wow!" for me. Same