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by kleinsch 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco, CA - Local or Remote I'm a full stack developer, experienced in Java and Ruby on Rails stacks. I'm also a published app developer, with a game on the iOS App Store (Flake Escape) and multiple enterprise apps de
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by kleinsch 15y ago
Compression garments aren't worn by athletes just to keep warm. There has been a hypothesis for years now that compression garments improve performance, speed up recovery, and/or help with injury prevention. That's why I wore compression sl
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by kleinsch 15y ago
McLean, VA (Just outside Washington, DC) Ringio ( http://www.ringio.com ) - Full Time Ringio provides internet phone service to small businesses to improve the quality of their phone interactions. We're looking for a few great software en
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by kleinsch 15y ago
Reston, VA - Full Time Lucidmedia - http://www.lucidmedia.com We're an ad network located in the Dulles Technology Corridor, about a half hour outside DC. We run on the major real time bidding platforms, processing over a billion impressi
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Agreed. If you're going to make sacrifices like that, you better have a "set for life" equity stake in the company. Otherwise, you're just a sucker.
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In the context of startups, I think reinventing the wheel makes sense when it's your primary product and you can do better than what's out there. Most of the examples listed in the article fit this. If it's what you spend all day thinking a
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by kleinsch 16y ago
My favorite part of the slides: "First, make it possible. Then, make it beautiful. Then, make it fast." Having personally been bitten by doing each of these out of order, they make a lot of sense.
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I love how many of comments on this article have no idea who Brad Feld is, and nobody bothered to read his bio before deciding he's a spammer. He's one of the more famous tech entrepreneurs and investors. He's had companies acquired, sits o
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by kleinsch 16y ago
How do you write an entire article about iOS app advertising and not include a single word about mobile ad networks? I see discussion of banner ads on major sites, AdWords, roadblocks on various ad networks, Daring Fireball RSS, MacWorld ba
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I agree with you 100% that allowing recurring subscriptions is great news for iOS developers developing applications with certain usage profiles. The people who are complaining are people with low margin businesses, for whom giving up 30% o
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by kleinsch 16y ago
This is what I do at my day job. It's fun. :) Here are some of the interesting/tricky parts: - Everything needs to be lightning fast. You don't have time for 15 calls out to MySQL to figure out what you're going to do. NoSQL is your friend
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by kleinsch 16y ago
This does showcase an issue I've come across before: if there's a service that's important to you, make sure they have an email address on file that you check regularly. You never realize until it's too late that they've sent you "URGENT: W
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by kleinsch 16y ago
This has been a trend for the last six months or so. Backflip Studios tried a free game as a promotional strategy, and it's turned into a core piece of their business. More small developers are realizing promotion is easier with free apps a
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Not sure where you're located geographically, but in the US there's still a major shortage of qualified mobile developers for the major platforms (iOS and Android). Any platform other than those and there will be less competition, but also
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I've tried a couple of the books. First used Beginning iPhone Development, from Apress, then looked at some others in a bookstore. The problem I found with all of them is that they teach you a few specific things to accomplish common tasks
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I badger my way through Photoshop, but definitely could use some help. Any books people recommend for learning it?
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Even if your company doesn't sue you immediately, the fact that the intellectual property might be of questionable ownership can also mess up fundings or acquisitions down the road. If a company is looking to buy you and realizes that there
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by kleinsch 16y ago
If you're in any way technical, why would you go MediaTemple (or other VPS provider) and not Amazon EC2? With the new micro instances, Amazon is very competitive on the low end, and they've got configurations to scale up to the highest volu
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by kleinsch 16y ago
In most Teach for America schools, the choice for some families isn't between parents working to pay for college vs being involved in their child's school. It's a choice between parents working vs the family not eating. When the parents are
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Definitely. When classroom discipline is solely the teacher's responsibility, the teacher ends up spending all their time enforcing discipline and no time teaching. My girlfriend did Teach for America in the bad parts of Washington, DC and
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Yup - Three-card Monte comes to mind when people talk about being a hustler, but I suppose it's better than being a charlatan or a martyr.
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I've been thinking about a few ideas relating to app recommendations, and I wish there were a way to do this on the device instead of running something on your computer. Having to run something on your computer is really going to limit adop
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by kleinsch 16y ago
If you've been working for other people for a long time, it takes some serious adjusting to work for yourself. I also have trouble getting motivated to start on a large project by myself, since it seems insurmountable in the beginning. It h
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I've done the same thing before, and only recently have regretted it. It's much easier and less uncomfortable to accept what they're offering, especially if it's the amount you were anticipating, but if no negotiating was required, you defi
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by kleinsch 16y ago
This is definitely missing an "I'm working part-time on my startup" or "I'm consulting part-time to fund my startup". Personally, I'm working two days a week to pay the bills, and spending the rest of the time working on my startup. I find
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I did a lot of Push learning in college and shortly afterward. I'd buy a bunch of books, read them cover to cover, and look up stuff on the web. I found that it was a good way to get familiar with certain topics, so I knew which tools to us
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by kleinsch 16y ago
It's a pretty vicious cycle. Financial websites and TV shows are mostly subsidized by brokerages or firms that make more money when you trade more, so (surprise!) they advocate trading as much as possible. It drives me nuts that in order to
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I'm just getting started, but I've found that writing regularly helps keep the words flowing. When I go for a month or so without writing, it takes forever to get back into the flow. I've set a goal of averaging one or more posts per week o
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One thing that's frequently overlooked are the relationships you'll build at school. I went to a very solidly ranked state school (umd.edu), and most of the people I know got jobs at government contractors. I have friends I've met through j
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I agree, it's very hard to measure good planning and foresight. I also definitely agree that emergencies happen, even to people that plan well. My main point was that there are some people who are constantly responding to emergencies, more

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