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by kls 12y ago
Also there are a lot of social programs in Europe that are unavailable in the US though our tax rates are not that far off when you factor in state, federal and sales taxes. Medical alone, for a family is a pretty sizable chunk of expenditu
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by kls 12y ago
Young and inexperienced, at the time of the first wave aka the .com boom, would be the main reason. I did have a little equity in the start-up that we exited to Hotels.com on but honestly I did not know my value or the advantage I hade in n
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by kls 12y ago
Yes this has been a pattern we have seen as well, but as the market has shifted away from employees and more towards contract based employment we have seen that dynamic shift some. Also as we have focused on being a distributed team we have
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by kls 12y ago
it should be fun and be a lot about pre-sales and pre-qualification of clients. One of the things that we have been caught up in before is a continuous sales cycle where the client has no intention of actually committing to picking up our
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by kls 12y ago
No we don't really keep a fund as we are technically not a business. Some of us have our own consultancy but the rate we negotiate per head goes directly to each contributing member of the team.
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by kls 12y ago
You are correct, honestly Hung and I have played hot potato with the role and I don't think either of us truly want the role. I first fell into it and then as of late Hung has been more at the forefront but yes your perception is spot
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by kls 12y ago
I listed a few of them but it is standard modern technology stacks, a lot of Angular, React, Ember, Node etc. we have a couple of guys that do Ruby on the back end, a few that do Java and some .Net back end guys. Then there are some of us l
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by kls 12y ago
Genius, pitch your service disguised in a genuine question. :) I know it's not out of the realm of possibility on HN and I do like that HN is not adverse to shameless promotion but my first and foremost interest is in the opinions of
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by kls 12y ago
I could not have said it better, white-boarding is about as far away from a persons coding routine as it gets. Not to mention we all rely on REPL and the debugger from time to time to save us from simple mistakes, there is no iterative proc
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by kls 12y ago
It has usually taken the form of 1-3 large contracts but from time to time we pick up smaller stuff. I would love to get together sometime if you would like, I am always down for networking and it's easy to talk me into lunch. My conta
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by kls 12y ago
We are missing that guy, we have talked about outright hiring that role several times. Currently Hung and I kind of split that role, while the other guys bring stuff to the table from time to time. We have done some outsourcing projects but
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by kls 12y ago
It's a good idea but I have to wonder what the potential market is, I don't know of many other groups like ours, but then again it may be that our group consumed the fledgling groups that we ran into that where similar.
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by kls 12y ago
I have not, currently I only get a sign up screen stating that they are in alpha.
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by kls 12y ago
That is a good idea, thanks for the suggestion. We try to network as much as possible but it's rare we find people in the right place at the right time.
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by kls 12y ago
No and we have kicked this around several times, but it always ends up we fall into contracts and the idea get's shelved again because we all get too busy. We tend to rely just on our linked in profiles and send those, I can certainly
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Ask HN: How do I find a team of 10-15 developers a project to work on?
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by kls 12y ago
He could have easily wrote the same piece about Venezuela and their leftist policy, but that would tread too close to his ideological home. Fact is parts of South America have systemic problems that transcends political dogma, Honduras is n
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by kls 12y ago
If you can do remote well the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. I have built and worked in / with remote teams (primarily US based) for 5 years in that time I have found the primary killer of productivity is isolation. A lot of develope
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by kls 12y ago
I was going to mention that as a third issue, but that seems to be more focused specifically on India. I have not seen the hesitance to deliver bad news from other Asian cultures.
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by kls 12y ago
No you are correct, but if you are suffering from burn out you have a larger problem than a looming deadline. Corrective steps take time. It takes years to get to burn out, there is no magic bullet to undue that overnight.
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by kls 12y ago
Do you have a hobby? If the answer is no, then you need to do some soul searching and find something external to technology that you would enjoy. My wife is a psychiatrist (well not yet, she is finishing her doctorate) and doing a study on
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by kls 12y ago
There are several factors but the biggest one was India, I never understood why software quality from India was so poor. Honestly, it made no logical sense, here is a population that has a group of individuals that are for whatever reasons
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by kls 12y ago
I have been pretty vocal about my dislike of Angular, I will not beat it to death because it has been gone over, again and again by others far more willing to argue those points. Sufficient to say, Magic comes at a price and a lot of people
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by kls 12y ago
What was the role you where applying for? If it was a web dev job, where all you will be doing is working in frameworks, then the questions are not a fit for your role. If they where asking about sorting an array, to see if you can do simp
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by kls 12y ago
I was surprised to see phone numbers and other identifying info in a non-redacted format as well. It is hard to imagine that nobody thought about privacy info before releasing this.
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by kls 12y ago
While I applaud the effort, the usability is horrible. I have never seen a clearer case for continuos scroll. To set everything up as a calendar, when not many people are going to see date's sent as the highest value data organization
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by kls 12y ago
Does OSS always have to end up as an sass to make profit? Not always there are some technical oriented products where the originators set up shop as a consultancy and offer expertise in the technology. The Dojo Toolkit is a good example o
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by kls 12y ago
Go is also a pretty good example, you have to search Golang to find results about Go on any engine other than Google's and I would assume I get results on Google, for Go, because I am profiled as a developer. I don't think a lot o
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by kls 12y ago
I should note that I’m planning to Mallet anyone who decides to start a debate on the word “privilege” in this thread. I’ve already established that straight white dudes often cannot deal with the term rationally; there’s no need for a) an
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by kls 12y ago
Also, outside of SF, the ageism is much much milder Agreed, it seems outside the cultural bubble of the Bay Area the entire technical workforce seems to be aging. I see fewer and fewer of the younger generations entering tech outside of

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