reuven

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by reuven 15y ago
I'm not sure if I agree with your terminology; I call myself a consultant, and have been doing it full-time for more than 15 years. However, I'm mostly intrigued by the idea of value-based consulting. I've spoken with colleagues about it i
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by reuven 15y ago
I've written a book (a decade ago, for Prentice Hall), and I talked with Apress about writing a second one. Apress, it should be noted, forgot about our discussions, and I didn't push, so the project dropped. The first thing to realize abo
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by reuven 15y ago
I've been teaching programming classes (mostly Ruby, Python, and PostgreSQL -- and for a long time, Perl) for more than 10 years. People ask me to come to their companies and teach these technologies to them, and they're willing to pay me
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by reuven 15y ago
We don't have to worry about health insurance in Israel, either. You pay 5% of your salary (up to a cap), and get (from my family's extensive experience) very good care. The fact that Americans have to think or worry about health insurance
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by reuven 15y ago
Not all minorities are offended by mentions of Christmas. I'm Jewish, and find the whole "Happy Holidays" thing to be bizarre and unnecessary. Christmas is a major Christian holiday. Hanukkah is a minor Jewish holiday. The only thing th
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by reuven 15y ago
Wow, it never occurred to me that HR staffers might get a bonus for hiring people at a low salary. I would have hoped (naively, it would seem) that they would get a bonus for hiring really great people that help the company to do better th
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by reuven 15y ago
Why should your salary offer depend on what the candidate has previously made? When I hire people for my consulting company, I consider how much I can bill them out for, and then how much I can pay them based on that. Their salary history
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by reuven 15y ago
You're right. Israel does have serious human-rights issues with the Palestinians. But: Israel also has a thriving democracy that subjects its government officials to constant, withering criticism and investigation. We have a court system
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by reuven 15y ago
I also have a NeXTStation ("color slab"). Every 2-3 years, I turn it on, and show people what I was using, back in 1992. They never fail to be amazed. It was a great machine, and also a great community.
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by reuven 15y ago
The author of this blog posting seems to equate being self employed with having a startup or online business. This is certainly a great thing to do, but there are other paths to self-employment. And self employment isn't for everyone. Tak
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by reuven 15y ago
Good question; I'm not sure. That said, none (literally none ) of my PostgreSQL-using clients use psql, and they're somewhere between amazed and horrified that I prefer it for working with the database. I'm not against GUIs, but it seems
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by reuven 15y ago
Do I blog or tweet about it? Oh, I really, really should. (And I enjoy doing so when I do.) I used to blog a bit, but consulting + family + my (oh-so-dragged-out) PhD work tend to eat into my time. But yeah, I really should. Maybe your
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by reuven 15y ago
I've been using PostgreSQL for about 15 years, and it's a rare week when I don't discover a feature that makes my life (and that of my clients) easier and better in some way. The software is rock solid, the feature set both broad and deep,
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by reuven 15y ago
I'm not at all expecting the graphic designer to be a frontend developer. I've said all along that I'm happy to take care of whatever JavaScript is necessary. But there's a difference between knowing the technical side of HTML + CSS + Java
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Ask HN: Should Web designers know HTML and CSS?
10 points by reuven 15y ago|10 comments
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by reuven 18y ago
I don't homeschool my three kids, but I've spent a lot of time learning about, working with, and tracking the homeschooling community. (And if we didn't live in a community with a school that largely meets our needs, I would homeschool the
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Examples of successful migrations of desktop apps to the Web?
6 points by reuven 18y ago|3 comments
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by reuven 19y ago
Good design will make or break our product; while we're doing a lot of cool things, simplicity is key. I myself use a Mac, and had a NeXT machine oh-so-many years ago, and agree that design is a key differentiator. The question isn't wheth
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by reuven 19y ago
For the record, everyone working with me on this startup is currently getting options, plus the promise of a job when (not if!) we get funding.
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Ask YC: Who is a founder?
3 points by reuven 19y ago|11 comments