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CareGuide Gets Too Many Investors, Crashes Angel List(techvibes.com)
4 points by jpg 12y ago|0 comments
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by jpg 14y ago
What a brutal deal for startups. The government has got to be able to find a better way to funnel money to startups than through these guys, who charge cash-strapped startups $3k to pitch (!!!) and then take 8% for themselves personally.
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by jpg 18y ago
I only ran the test against the first name server listed. It would have been more complete to test again all/several, but I thought this would be sufficient. LuiLui.com has changed its name servers since I ran the test. I just used the firs
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by jpg 18y ago
I haven't heard of djbdns... did you measure performance before and after? How did you measure it?
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How to Compare Hosted DNS Providers (with Data)(dns.learnhub.com)
36 points by jpg 18y ago|5 comments
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by jpg 18y ago
Yeah... guess I should have explained it that way. Good feedback, thanks. Hopefully the point remains: review as much code as you can, and don't be shy of asking them to demonstrate their skillz.
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by jpg 18y ago
I wouldn't specifically ask for friends and family of course. The moral of the story is to try to collect as many perspectives as you can on the candidate.
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by jpg 18y ago
Call it what you will, but as a hiring manager you really should review as much code as possible before hiring. Usually they can't show you proprietary code from their last company, so unless they've already done open source contributions,
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by jpg 18y ago
Totally agree! and so does the article... See point #5, the second bullet.
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by jpg 18y ago
The 10-15 includes all references of all kinds, professional, friends, even family. I spoke to one of my hire's father, one time, because he worked for him for 2 years. You'd be surprised, family members are often the most honest. The point
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by jpg 18y ago
references can/should be really fast. can get them all done in a couple hours... worth it, given all the good stuff you can discover. You are going to work and pay this person for months/years.
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World's Best Rails Rails Hiring Process(startups.learnhub.com)
22 points by jpg 18y ago|31 comments