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by rpwilcox 13y ago
There's a Rubygem for Harvest that provides a nice CLI interface for harvest. gem install hcl I haven't used it in a few years, so I don't know how well it works in Ruby 1.9.x / Ruby 2.0, but it was pretty nice.
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
> Price, Quality, Time Please don't use those terms. There are better ones: Price, Scope (size) and Time. The problem with the phrasing "Price, Quality, Time" is that nobody wants to sacrifice on quality. Everyone wants a
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
The great thing about there being so many Javascript transpilers these days is that you can pick the right language to suit your needs. Really want / need Google Closure / the latest ECMAScript stuff? ClojureScript supports these
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
> Plus, I don't understand the contradiction that exists in startups-- they claim they want "great engineers", but they also want cheap engineers, and they also want young engineers. This reminds me of the project manageme
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
> Is this something that may be unique to the bay area though? Yes. In the NYC/DC tech scene usually available engineers are snapped up in half a week, tops. Not in those scenes myself, but have seen/heard enough stories.
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
> The reason we don't work less is because we clearly want (and can have) more stuff than we had in the 1930's I wouldn't blame entirely blame consumerism for why we won't work less. A lot of things have gone up dras
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
Fascinating. What's annoying about computer/video based sign instructions is the lack of feedback. "Did I get this sign right or do I just think I have it right?" If MotionSavvy can notify me when I get it wrong, very
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
Ok, this is awesome. A neat GUI interface over generating both Vagrantfiles and Puppet manifests by hand?! So nice. Slick UI + the fact that it generates this standard DevOps setup (Vagrant + Puppet) instead of trying to reinvent that p
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
Author here. Sounds like App Trajectory (by ThoughtBot) may fit the bill. It has discussions, and these discussions can have many related issues. Each issue gets an estimate, agile story point style, and App Trajetory computes your velocity
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
Author here. > One tool that the OP doesn't mention, but should be a > staple among companies of all sizes: Google Hangouts. You > can make a permanent hangout It's interesting to see the potential evolution beyond just
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
> Understanding of the business is again outside of the definition of a full stack developer Like all of these aspects you don't need to be a full blown business analyst, but a full stack developer does need to understand the business t
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
I suggest you alter your assumptions of how many hours you can get in a day. If your monthly budget depends on you billing 8 hours a day, 20 days a month you are setting yourself up to be disappointed. I know that, by in large, I can bill a
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
BBEdit +1 from me too. I abandoned BBEdit for Textmate around 2006 I think. I went back to BBEdit when Textmate looked like it was a dead-end (2011 ish?). Three things that drew me (back) to BBEdit: 1. Most of the features from TextMate
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 is just an awesome keyboard. I bought my first copy of this keyboard when my wrists started hurting about 5 years ago. It was the only keyboard in the store where my wrists didn't hurt just look
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Command line helpers for NVAlt(github.com)
1 points by rpwilcox 13y ago|0 comments
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
What would have been really informative is to know how many of those aveerage vacation/sick days were mandated by the country in question, and how many weren't. For example, I thought the various governments in Europe got cranky if you didn
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
> One of the core tenants at Yipit is that everyone should think and act like an entrepreneur. Does everyone get to learn how to do sales, marketing, customer interaction, forcasting, and corporate financing too? Seems like they are equ
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Ask HN: Startups on EC2, what does your setup look like?
21 points by rpwilcox 14y ago|9 comments
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
It could also mean that there's so much work that all a freelancer has to do for business development these days is tweet and get tons of work.
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Absolutely true: it's the basis for a hypothesis more than anything. "Are there more availability tweets on Twitter in the last month than previous months?" However, if OP wants another data source to show what the Indeed graph is showing,
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
I have seen a lot of freelancers on Twitter tweeting that they have availability. So, another potentially interesting data point.
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Interesting. Might be something to evaluate at the end of the 90DP - sounds like you are assigning too big tasks and doing waterfall style work. Maybe it works for these things, but seems to me, "Can we iterate fast enough with a 90 day cyc
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Seems like there's a lot of parallels here between a scrum style sprint and what you're doing, except the iteration is muuuuch longer. (ie: setting the iteration for a fixed length of time, ideally freezing the features in the sprint, post
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Sandy Disaster Recovery: an OSS disaster management project(blog.wilcoxd.com)
1 points by rpwilcox 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Process is a great tool - and if used properly -can keep teams more efficient and maybe even propagate some culture or history. And then Rands touches on something important: every time there's a new policy addition in the office engineers
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
I would agree: when the employee gets to the point where, "It's about the money" I would guess that it's probably not. In addition to not finding fulfillment (edw519's list of motivating factors), I'd say there's a list of demotivating fac
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Absolutely agree with the last point. While I wouldn't expect a designer to throw down much Objective-C quickly, the "move this element 5 points to the right" game can be played by a designer. Add 5 minutes of guidance from a developer and
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
The question raised in this question and answer column seems to me to serve as a warning for companies who are only looking for "rockstar" developers: often they come with a rockstar attitude. Or even if your team seems like mild mannered p
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
This is something that is business 101. If you don't know this you need to hire a non-technical cofounder good at this stuff. Or, at least, should be something that investors ask: what is your inbound and outbound sales and marketing effort
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
I also thought that line was unfair. Sure, one can go and get a 4 year degree to run your machines, at their own personal cost of $100,000 to $150,000. It's not just about "fair wage" at that point - enough to have a place to live, a car, f

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