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by loumf 12y ago
The minimum needed at each stage to get buy-in, inform, and help plan. For example: 1. At inception, a one-pager to make the business case and get funding/backing/ok/whatever. Audience: executives 2. Before starting, the end-
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by loumf 12y ago
There is a better summary of the studies in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" From what I remember, the claim is that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice work best when: 1. You get immediate feedback on success and failure 2. The thing yo
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Banks are really good at understanding service businesses that have 46k of monthly revenue and sell for 276k. Profit would matter too, so if the margin is 50%, then we're looking at a ~11-month payback possibility.
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Sure, so you just need to give examples of you working on projects virtually and that you know how to communicate without others in the same physical location. Student projects or other things you have done are ok -- it also doesn't n
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by loumf 12y ago
I just started a remote job in November -- I am in the US working for a US company, but this advice still applies. When I was looking for a job, the best source of remote jobs was StackOverflow careers. If you need an invite, write me. The
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by loumf 12y ago
What will happen if you release in 8 days instead of 3? What will happen if you release in 3 days but with a major bug? What will happen if you release in 3 days, but you cut features that don't work?
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This ideal has helped Social Security and Medicare keep popularity. They are not seen as poverty programs, but they help the poor a lot.
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You are way off. I would estimate $100-200k for 4 years for someone with around 4 years experience when they join. This is based on some quick googling, glassdoor, quora and knowing that 600k+ stock for 4 years at established company for
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by loumf 12y ago
Self employment tax (the equivalent of the employer side in W2 work) does max out at 117k. It's complex, and I think that someone doing sidework would not benefit enough from an scorp to make it worth it. Someone doing it fulltime that
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The whole W2/SCorp thing you are talking about is a commonly held belief, but there are details you are getting wrong that change its efficacy. 1. There is a maximum income for the payroll tax which in 2014 was 117,000. Which means th
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Skip applying or just answer truthfully. Trying to hide it is an indication that you haven't accepted responsibility for your actions and is more of a warning sign than what you have done since then to make better choices. (BTW, are yo
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Are you asking for yourself or because you want to hire them? If you want to hire them, it's best that you completely forget about this mindset. If you are asking for yourself, strive to be a an improving professional, and realize tha
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Establish a solo 401k and SEP (I believe it's too late for 2014, but hopefully you will have this "problem" in 2015). You can sock away money pre-tax, which will lower your bill now. I am not an accountant, but my wife is, a
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Trello (like FogCreek and StackOverflow) has a very regimented salary process that Joel Spolsky has talked about publicly here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/how-hard-could-it-be-em... There are a few elem
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I wrote about how to research labor statistics on salary here: http://www.greenwave-solutions.com/getting-labor-data-about-... SV median salary for software development jobs (loosely defined) was about $122k in 2014. SF was
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Why wouldn't it be? They say you have to agree to it to get access, so the copiers that made accounts agreed to it. If you mean, "would be defended" or "could know about it", then probably not. It just adds more to
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It's pretty reasonable to ask you to re-submit for review and extremely rare that someone wouldn't be able to do so. I see that you don't actually have the app, but Apple doesn't think this is common enough to have a pr
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44 year old programmer here -- I keep hoping that one day C++ won't matter, but I keep getting jobs (at startups) partly because I know it well.
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3-4 Days/week I get up at 5:15am, work out 6-7 (Crossfit), and I add in a weekend day too (30+ minutes of endurance/cardio). Eat lots of vegetables and lean meats, lightly processed. I work out of my house, so I have 0 commute.
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I'd put the price on the button if I were you. Not everyone has memorized IAP flow.
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Nice. Two things 1. When I tapped to remove ads it asked for Touch ID before I know what the price is. I just cancelled. I couldn't find a price anywhere 2. I feel like I should get more points the fewer times I let the ball go aroun
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That should be "should NOT work in a semi-distracted state"
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Some of the insights/recommendations from Peopleware * Programmers work better in quiet * Companies should not let facilities management design office spaces for programmers (with guidelines on a recommended office layout) * Make a pro
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Your manager asked for ideas and you had one but didn't submit it. If you look at your manager's words (as you have described them), you can see one thing that he wanted, but your method doesn't provide: Assessment. Figure o
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Try Hired.com and careers.stackoverflow.com -- For Careers, I have not used postings, just profile access. Everyone I have talked to that tried Hired loved it (but I have not)
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Good luck! Yeah -- that was fun.
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I'm remote. I'm not sure without counting if it's more or less than 50%. Not many are outside the US, but some are. I believe we require overlap with NYC afternoons, but I defer to whatever they tell you when you apply.
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NYC/REMOTE - NodeJS Dev - Developer Advocate - System Admin Trello - https://trello.com/jobs About Working At Trello Private offices. Free, catered lunch. Top-of-the-line benefits. Born out of Fog Creek Software, Trell
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I am an iPhone dev primarily so I have to use OSX, which I am fine with. I also do webdev in Django and that's fine too, but sometimes OS X likes to play with my python and mysql versions (especially on OS upgrades) -- since I don&#x27
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Haskell claims cross-compiler support for iOS and lists some ways to get it to work on Android. Probably be easier for the non-GUI parts. Networking and filesystem is probably trivial. It doesn't sound like you need much access to th

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