richardjortega

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LinuxShowdown - TrueAbility(trueability.com)
2 points by richardjortega 13y ago|0 comments
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by richardjortega 15y ago
alexwolfe, thank you. I don't want to leave him behind if we get funded, but i do need that passion and more compatible personality. Would you keep him on or hire back later? I'm also worried if the system would fall apart? Can another deve
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by richardjortega 15y ago
jtchang, thanks. I appreciate your comment and honesty on why deadlines can be missed. It was also on me not defining expectations and he may feel we'll just profit off his work and pay him peanuts. I really want him as an equal founder and
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by richardjortega 15y ago
Just wanted to say brudgers, thank you so much for the "Chinese water torture" analogy. It made a ton of sense and I'll be meeting with my programmers to get things realigned from an expectation and compensation standpoint.
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by richardjortega 15y ago
Were you trolling? :) - I like you coffee. Isn't the assumption that I have a marketing background an assumption too? My background is web development (mostly frontend), not application development. I don't think you gave harsh criticism -
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by richardjortega 15y ago
Thanks Brandon, I'd love for him to just be a bit more social and give us updates. I'd like for him to be a partner and turn this around.
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by richardjortega 15y ago
Yeah, that's a good point. Time to brush up on my coding skills. Do you think you can sell and code in a startup and be great at both?
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by richardjortega 15y ago
I wasn't trying to manage him, just that specific example was for a client who waited for three weeks for logins. All I need was an update (requested politely 4-6 times prior) and received no responses. Those emails aren't the only ones, us
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by richardjortega 15y ago
Why do you think we have "HUGE egos"? I'm trying to be open and candid. I just want to have a great startup team and that's why I chose him - yes because we were "college chums" and I thought he was one of the top backend devs I ever saw. H
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by richardjortega 15y ago
There are tons of posts on HN - I used "dick" just to grab attention and get responses. Did not mean any disrespect by it either. Last time I posted a thread that said something mild in title I got no responses. I'm not referring to ALL pro
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by richardjortega 15y ago
I debated responding to you. But I will, because I'm trying to truly resolve this situation with my dev. I don't know the first thing about you and I won't assume. I'm asking for comments on what to do next. Sorry if I called a "person" a d
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by richardjortega 15y ago
Why assume my time estimate is wrong? I asked him for the estimate of hours. He doesn't include "research" time, I told him I'd pay for that time - he doesn't think it should be counted. In previous projects we've worked on, he has always u
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by richardjortega 15y ago
I love all the opinions and please, hearing from devs and founders alike is amazing. I'd like to some comments that I didn't detail: 1) Total hours dev worked so far: 100, hours likely left 50-100. 2) Partner and I invested $30k so far 3) W
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by richardjortega 15y ago
I wrote the title so I could get programmers to help me understand. I used to program years ago and I respect programmers and understand they are the lifeblood to any project. I've asked only 1-5 hours per week from this individual. I've ma
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by richardjortega 15y ago
A key employee as in he is putting about 1-5 hours of coding per week but we needed a good backend dev and he was the best I knew. He's a college friend and I don't know how best to deal with the situation of him not communicating. I came t
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by richardjortega 15y ago
"The twinkle in their eye" I think that is exactly right and I can't expect him to share the vision. I feel the only way I can tell he is working is that the Github repo is updated. He's an amazing programmer and back in college we were goo
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by richardjortega 15y ago
We want him to join us in an incubator/accelerator but we're not sure about his passion or drive. Should we continue to bare with him so that after an accelerator we go our separate ways? Yes, you have a point in how motivated would I be in
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by richardjortega 15y ago
Repped. Same situation here, our entire backend is setup with this setup (backbone, node, d3, mongoDB). We are looking for developers in these areas, since I'm not a programmer - do you have any good ideas that I can check?
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by richardjortega 15y ago
most awsm post i've ever heard on HN
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My programmer is a dick...
14 points by richardjortega 15y ago|47 comments