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by noodle 4y ago
Pretty much all of your complaints are self-inflicted by chasing bleeding edge tech. You don't have to do this. > I've been burnt before using what was seen once as well-established and polished but when I tried it, it was in
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by noodle 4y ago
I'm currently working in this space and agree - very underserved in a lot of different ways. Commercial is more served because more money is involved, residential is underserved because of a wide range of reasons, and its a pretty rea
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by noodle 4y ago
> SaaS for small and medium businesses This one
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by noodle 4y ago
SMB SaaS seems to be doing just fine.
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by noodle 4y ago
Many coworking spaces - weworks included - have private phone booths. They tend to be really packed, though, which leads to people taking calls in the shared areas.
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by noodle 4y ago
I've been helping someone shop for a car and the Escape PHEV has been on the top of the list of considerations. Agreed its a great alternative, but its basically impossible to find as well. Most ford dealerships are charging ~20% over
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by noodle 4y ago
> Wanting more privacy can be an ends in itself. People who are willing to jump through hoops to marginally increase their privacy and the companies willing to similarly jump through hoops to cater to these people are a subset of the ove
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by noodle 4y ago
As a CompE and EE major who switched to software after graduation like 20 years ago, EE work was also like way harder IMO. They SHOULD be getting paid more. But they don't seem to be. I switched due to low salary and few available j
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by noodle 4y ago
IMO step 1 is figuring out what kind of business you want to build.
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by noodle 4y ago
I've had mixed experience here. It REALLY depends on what you're specializing in; specialization alone doesn't cut it. Also, you can get away with being a skills generalist if you instead specialize in a field/topic&#
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by noodle 4y ago
Depends on what you want to do. Entrepreneurial as in start your own consulting company? Or starting a startup where you're (generally speaking) selling a product of some sort?
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by noodle 4y ago
If they have the money to hire you and they have pent-up growth that refactoring will unlock, that really sounds like close to an ideal path for a startup to take. They're literally paying down their tech debt by paying to hire you.
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by noodle 4y ago
I think a more thorough answer to this question would require me to put too much detail out in public than I might be allowed to, but suffice it to say that we don't. We also don't really have a problem hiring and we pay above ma
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by noodle 4y ago
This is fairly true for most businesses already, though - at least in tech. It's just a question of how they value your skills that might not be in alignment. Some companies will value what you bring to the table more than others, jus
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by noodle 4y ago
It certainly does act as a filter. My point was more, this was much less of a thing when ranges weren't published. Many applicants had firm requirements across all the way across the spectrum. Published rates end up grouping towards
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by noodle 4y ago
I currently post ranges because we're now large enough. But when we were smaller, I wouldn't include ranges because our job posts didn't filter by seniority, and at least part of the comp was the potential for a healthy opti
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by noodle 4y ago
I don't work for that company. A company that would allow that to happen is probably not a company with a culture I'd like to be a part of. In your specific example, depending on how the rest of the team reacted, I might've
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by noodle 4y ago
Yeah for sure. Going from 0 to 7-8 figures is the aspiration for people who attend, and what you've built is a great resource for that growth. But the person we're responding to has already achieved that aspiration. What's
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by noodle 4y ago
Microconf is definitely more oriented towards smaller businesses than the previous commenter seems to be.
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by noodle 4y ago
Cheaper labor is cheaper for a reason. The economy is globalized enough that if you have an actually equivalent skillset, you're very likely able to pull an equivalent salary, no matter where you live. You'll get outsourced regar
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by noodle 4y ago
Just to add something that hasn't already been talked about (speaking generically since you don't have much detail): Most people do not care about the black box of HOW you solve their business problems. Identify people with the b
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by noodle 4y ago
Yep, for sure. I've witnessed this first-hand, too, many times. Watched many startups die from this desire to build the perfect version of a thing that no one wants to buy.
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by noodle 4y ago
Many business, products, features, etc never survive long enough to get to "the long run".
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by noodle 4y ago
WRT your experience at Amazon - A lesson you don't learn in school, and is even hard to learn in professional life, is that engineering is about getting the best work done inside the constraints you're presented with. Sometimes i
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by noodle 4y ago
That depends fully on the format. Original article doesn't specify afaik, but the only sanctioned commander games I've ever played in a tournament format were limited events
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by noodle 4y ago
Beyond a certain level, everyone has access to all the cards they want. That might cause a poor fit on the bottom levels, but intermediate to advanced levels, its not about ownership
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by noodle 4y ago
They're definitely required for at least some scenarios, as a raw deploy didn't work for me, they're called out in the help docs, and I had a chat w/ their CEO on the topic a few weeks ago.
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by noodle 4y ago
The same issue I have with Render, I also have with this. If you have to create a config file for the environment, you aren't giving me a Heroku-like experience. Give me an opinionated default that works well for most situations that
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by noodle 5y ago
> How can you establish at least doubt in the other person's mind? Someone must be open to this in the first place. You can't change a closed mind, and there are many reasons why a mind might be closed. They kind of have to ar
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by noodle 5y ago
> Minimum Lovable Products (MLPs) add more focus on the idea that whatever you’re putting out in the market has to solve a real-world problem from the beginning Is this not already the definition of an MVP? As they put it - a skeleton t

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