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by obayesshelton 4y ago
Don't take money unless 1. You really need it 2. You feel the VC can give you something nobody else can When you take money from an investor you are selling YOUR own equity in turn reducing your ownership.
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by obayesshelton 4y ago
Slack is a great story. Basically a tool they built in-house, the company were going bust and they realised that the "tool" had some value and out popped Slack https://review.firstround.com/From-0-to-1B-Slacks-Foun
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by obayesshelton 4y ago
A lot of sports have competitions for "masters" only which is typically 40+ years old So you could learn to sail in your 30s, spend 10 years getting good (need plenty of time on the water and coaching) and then enter the masters.
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by obayesshelton 5y ago
Great question and could be a fun project. What is stopping a group of developers making a sat phone using a third-party satellite service. I am pretty sure AWS has ground base or something....
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by obayesshelton 5y ago
And you wonder what happens around politics season..
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by obayesshelton 5y ago
Not totally true. The wealth of Putin is unknown.
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by obayesshelton 5y ago
Similar situation to me about a year ago. I knew it would take me time to learn the quirks but if your new employer is happy for you to learn python then that is great. The best way to learn is by doing. Maybe play around with making a web
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by obayesshelton 5y ago
All we need now is a Microsoft VR / Metaverse platform and FB/Meta can finally sink into oblivion.
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by obayesshelton 5y ago
Crypto and NFT is one big ponzi scheme. Who on earth is spending $000,000s on a virtual ship? I sense it is a case of somebody close to the NFT or virtual world buying the asset and making out it is a great thing and then selling it on quic
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by obayesshelton 5y ago
Most professional engineers are using some sort of virtualisation (docker or vagrant) with the language inside it. I never use the OSX standard version of PHP or Python
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by obayesshelton 5y ago
So both Atom and PHPStorm (JetBrains product) have the ability to do remote pair programming.
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by obayesshelton 5y ago
Depending on your location you could setup a two level company structure. Parent -> Child You invoice from Child and pay yourself and any costs from Child. At the end of every year Child pays Parent any profits. Parent can then use profi
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
Sorry for the delay with this! Snyk is a bit fiddly and I'm not totally sold with the reporting/monitoring and how they work with branches. However they monitor Docker images which is key for me. If GitHub offered Docker images sc
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
I work for a Dutch bank based out of the UK. My issue is they can only issue me a UK contract. I was thinking about moving over to Dubai for a few obvious reasons. My main challenge is if I want to go back to contracting properly I need to
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
Now - 1) Went from being a contractor on a good day rate to being forced into being an employee (IR35 for the UK readers) 2) Taking a 13% pay cut 3) Due to point 1) I have zero money going into my business account 4) The business owes the g
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
A developer is an architect of solving problems. The language is the material / tool used to solve the problem in question. As we learn we know when to use X tool or language to solve Y problem.
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
Not a huge fan of managing something as critical like this. GitHub has a dependancy management tool and also Snyk is a great addition to our pipeline for code packages and Docker Images. Using both in production.
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
Couldn't recommend laravel more and especially with VUE!! Great community, help and generally a great experience.
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
Interesting comments on here and a lot resinate with me. As humans we need to consume information to progress. Is it bad that we are "listening" rather than "reading"? We are still learning... I can't spend much mor
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
More importantly the team. Products can pivot Founders are crucial
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
I love this idea!
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
Hey, I don't think there any many good lists of VCs, Investors etc in general. A friend of mine in the UK is making the "GlassDoor for VCs" which is making great progrss. I do a fair few investments a year (4-5) a year. This
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
HaHa I think some point like the challenge until...
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
Hey, great response and interesting talking points there. I agree with the "20 different streaming services" I think somebody (ROKU have started) need to address this pain point. I do agree with all of your other points as well. J
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
This is interesting and slightly off-topic but relevant. I see Deliveroo, Uber Eats etc in a very similar situation to Amazon Prime. In the UK nobody really offered same day delivery for goods other than Amazon. Not many restaurants had web
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
I have tried Lucid and Miro neither quite cut it but given what types of things I have been doing lately I need flexibility and both do it. Lucid doesn't output pretty though, I love things snapping and having equal spacing.
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
Thanks :)
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
I love this idea! Do you have some names of agencies that do this?
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
- Ask to shadow a couple of the team at various levels and be a rubber duck - Go get coffee or in a covid world do a couple of one to one calls with some of your team and LISTEN don't TALK - Don't make a load of suggestions straig
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by obayesshelton 6y ago
This is exactly my issue! I started contracting on £x per day, a year ago they put me In-Scope of IR35 and my day rate went down by 13% due to a cost natural approach by the client. I then have to pay tax on that. Before I didn't pay m

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