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by noahc 9y ago
Is this typically 5k to 20k engagements over a period of 2 to six weeks?
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by noahc 9y ago
The company needs the invoice to make a payment. They typically don't care about the legal correctness. Particularly if the developer is in another country. Making the invoice look legal/official is more important than anything el
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by noahc 10y ago
Why are the islands known to accelerate genetic changes specifically? Is it because of sun exposure?
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by noahc 10y ago
My understanding is that you would only pay $5k - $8k for something like that at most.
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by noahc 10y ago
What makes you think you have different requirements?
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by noahc 10y ago
I took a class with Sandi, where this material was covered. I paired with one developer who did mostly Java and he seemed to get a lot of the class even though he hadn't really programmed in Ruby. Might be worth reconsidering,FWIW.
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by noahc 10y ago
This is designed for people who just pull out their credit cards and buy the book. I would expect she and Katrina have a significant number of those folks. No preview needed.
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by noahc 11y ago
Get everything in writing is not the correct advice when something is sketchy. Getting it in writing means you'll have to invest significant cost/effort/stress in getting it sorted out.
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How to Grab the Attention of a Potential Employer Without Sending a Resume(medium.com)
2 points by noahc 11y ago|0 comments
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by noahc 11y ago
Stop being a software engineer and start focusing on solving business and people problems. My experience has been that if you're good ( at both software and business) the company will try to move you in the 'leadership' direc
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How I turned a $100 E-book into a Six Figure Salary and missed out on $50K+(bedtoboardroom.com)
3 points by noahc 11y ago|0 comments
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by noahc 12y ago
And your point exactly? He already knows it could be much better, obviously. It is his business after all. And yet despite your finely tuned ability to detect amateurish abandonware he managed to bring in ~$75,000 revenue in on public plan
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by noahc 12y ago
+1. We weren't on AWS, but we had co-located rack space and we moved our main rails app that has been in development for 4 years over to Heroku. It took much much much longer than anyone expected. Like we thought it was a 4 man weeks o
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by noahc 12y ago
In this case, it is an internal project so it never would have touched legal.
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by noahc 12y ago
Except it will forever be called that. A quick example is where I work we have a 'new product x billing' system and it is still called the 'new' one five years later when it is also the only one. There is some debate int
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by noahc 12y ago
I suspect it is also true that comments are more of a liability than an asset. "He has no comments, he must have been busy doing something else interesting." vs "He has 500 comments, and shows he isn't interested in cons
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by noahc 12y ago
You first might want to start investigating COBRA. A good place to start is http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq-consumer-cobra.html .
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by noahc 12y ago
Without more details, particularly, which country you're in no one can answer this question. Are you giving it to a person or a non-profit? How much? Why are you doing it? Are you trying to make a company have more shareholders? Are yo
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by noahc 12y ago
I'm from the midwest (USA) and I'm not sure what the rule is but here is how I would say it. The City Council is … The class is … The police are … The firefighters are … The phrase "the police is" sounds so foreign to m
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by noahc 12y ago
You're over thinking this. He means a handful + 3.
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by noahc 12y ago
Investors understand risk management. It is possible he knows he needs 15MM to go for the home run, but doesn't want put in the 15MM himself and go bankrupt in the process. Investors allow him to shoot for the moon. Also, investors hel
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by noahc 12y ago
If the only value you add is 'I can do it cheaper than the other guy' then yes it is a race to the bottom. However, I would strongly urge your consider what type of signaling 'I can do it cheaper than the other guy' send
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by noahc 12y ago
If you sell to businesses, this is a horrible idea. I'd rather you charge me $150/month and have no one use the service than have to explain to my boss, "Why are we paying $110 this month, when it was $70 last month and two g
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by noahc 12y ago
If you're serious about being a security consultant, I'd checkout https://breaker101.daeken.com . Not sure when the next class is going to be, but I took the first iteration of the course and people were able to transit
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by noahc 13y ago
It seems like you're trying to do finance -> machine learning. When maybe a more appropriate (and faster) way of going to just do finance -> programming. You're in NYC so finding a job shouldn't be a problem, but http:
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by noahc 13y ago
One definition of a startup is a company (person or business) that is still looking for product/market fit. I'd argue that you're a startup until you've found product/market fit and have found a verifiable profit ge
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by noahc 13y ago
No. What about 1Gb fiber connection makes one a terrorist? What about buying Uranium off Amazon[1] makes one a terrorist? What about starting an organization that promotes technology in the Midwest, a typically rural and industrial location
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by noahc 13y ago
It's not a stupid question, but often times open sourcing something involves one or more of the following: 1. Documenting everything so it's actually usable. At a minimum, "here is how to install the dumb thing" should p
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by noahc 13y ago
I just wanted to say congrats on getting something out in the world. Don't worry about all the criticism on this page, particularly from anyone who has never written a book before.
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by noahc 13y ago
The idea behind this is that you bill in weeks and deliver real business value so you don't have clients doing 'small projects' or low prices. The approach is self selecting and self correcting.

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