philgo20

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by philgo20 15y ago
English is not my primary language so there could very well be a better adjective ;-)
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by philgo20 15y ago
I should have made it clearer that this shouldn't be allowed to individuals not meeting deadlines. That would not make sense. But actually, one of our best employee actually enjoy a little bikeshedding here and there. I blame his young age
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by philgo20 15y ago
Honestly I think they are the same in term of impact in the spirit and fun they bring to the workplace. The "n/a" versus "ø" discussion will be settled by me sticking to use "n/a" as it's most commonly understood. No need to A/B test it imh
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Let Your Programmers Be Silly(blog.matchfwd.com)
17 points by philgo20 15y ago|10 comments
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by philgo20 15y ago
We're already praying to have some time to integrate Geeklist API into our platform, such a fun one. 7 wrappers available already...
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Check out the repos of the Geeklist API Hackers #mtlstartup(tech.matchfwd.com)
10 points by philgo20 15y ago|1 comments
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by philgo20 15y ago
Vancouver before Montreal? Does not make any sense :-)
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by philgo20 15y ago
And any tips on what makes a great job ad? I mean we all work hard to get in touch with great people when you start a project but sometimes you simply have to throw something out there to cast a wider net.
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Hire Real Troopers, Not Whining Pussies(blog.matchfwd.com)
1 points by philgo20 15y ago|0 comments
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How to stop being a developer(tech.matchfwd.com)
5 points by philgo20 15y ago|0 comments
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Getting Schooled By Your New Hire(philgo20.com)
2 points by philgo20 15y ago|0 comments
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by philgo20 15y ago
Wow, I thought this would be low... but..
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Ask HN: Any companies/products using Hunch API in a meaningful way?
2 points by philgo20 15y ago|1 comments
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by philgo20 15y ago
Where do the events come from?
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MixPanel to Shut Down Email Analytics Product on Nov. 28th
2 points by philgo20 15y ago|0 comments
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If it’s your company, then it’s your fault(philgo20.com)
2 points by philgo20 15y ago|0 comments
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Simple: 2 choices, 1 rule. (philgo20.com)
2 points by philgo20 15y ago|1 comments
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The Best Trick I Know To Source Developers Using Twitter(blog.matchfwd.com)
3 points by philgo20 15y ago|0 comments
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by philgo20 15y ago
We use FSM to deal with the hiring/applicant flow at http://matchfwd.com FSM are very common in video games. I've also worked with one in a (very very) big engineering/CAD software when FSM was managing the whole approval/review/audit flo
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by philgo20 15y ago
I am not the intern myself, just posted it on his behalf. The startup was a few months old when he started. Both co-founders had years of development experience so I think we gave a pretty good internship experience. I don't think the age o
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My experience as a startup intern(blog.matchfwd.com)
2 points by philgo20 15y ago|2 comments
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by philgo20 15y ago
I totally agree with the 'thinking in abstract terms' thing but I would never reduce programming to that. It's not always so abstract. I tend to think that it'soften good rhetoric skills. A great ability with the three different types of rh
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by philgo20 15y ago
By the amount of emails sent and the similarity of emails, one could guess that they were indeed automated. Honestly I don't really have a big problem with the tactic as both parties were winning, but I am not buying the 'rogue' sales team
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by philgo20 15y ago
It seems to be down between PostMark and CritSend as we prefer no monthly fixed fee for now. Anyone has experienced one against the other ?
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by philgo20 15y ago
Forgot about them. Seems like what we're looking for.
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Ask HN: Do I Need an Email Platform for all the Individual emails we send?
3 points by philgo20 15y ago|7 comments
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by philgo20 15y ago
true. We already have some environment on WebFaction so we'll probably keep it for such case.
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by philgo20 15y ago
all depends when I can truly divide my time between the marketing hat and dev hat. I think any prediction would be wrong.
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by philgo20 15y ago
We push to production 3-4 times a day. You mean the carrousel on the home page ? I'll take a look. That page hasn't really been touched since we started developing and needs a complete makeover. Thanks for the heads up ! We currently our ow
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by philgo20 15y ago
no knocking Linode, I know it's good. But it's hard to see re-deployment as anything else that lost cycles at the point we're at. I hope we won't need 30 hours to be up and running on AWS though.

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