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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Jesus. Remind me to never work at a place where they count sick days...
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Beiber's cover songs on the Internet aren't illegal because of PIPA, they're illegal because of the current broken copyright system. Unless Bieber got authorization from the rights holders, which is (I'm guessing) both impossible and someth
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
> 7. Just install and use Git?? I made that point generic for a reason. :) So you git push to your remote, now you (may) have to tell the servers to reload. Along with other things (database migrations if you're using SQL, compiling nat
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
> ... deploying Node is much easier. If you want to be really quick and deploy to the cloud, take AWS and you are done in 13 steps: Those 13 steps were about compiling node, not about serving node. Serving node is more complex. The real
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Great link, which (oddly enough, because I don't think this was your intention) backs up the OP's point. Out of that list of a dozen managed providers, 3 are officially out of beta. One, no.de, the OP talks about. One, Heroku, is listed an
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Seems like there was a talent crunch for MBAs back in the day. In fact, substituting "developer" for "MBA" and the MBA history lesson still rings mostly true...
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Probably a combination of people who don't want to work for Google, developers with families that don't want to bet, and developers who don't want to/can't live in SF (or Austin, or NYC, or...)
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
I think the daily standup and retrospective meetings are easy to implement because they can be seen as status meetings for the chicken's benefit. They aren't, really, but it does seem easy to turn these from "developers appraising other dev
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Business Person in the Startup Community? Help us understand - a survey(wilcoxd.wufoo.com)
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Unless you were underage when you took the contract (or someone pointed a literal gun to your head) you were fully capable, should have known the the risks of the position when you started. You took a gamble on a startup and you lost. You'r
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Came expecting insightful analysis of the state of startup business cofounders in the tech scene in 2012, got snark. (Especially if business cofounders being approached by techies have their "list of things that annoy them", for example)
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Every startup is bootstrapped(rwilcox.tumblr.com)
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
This is why I'm skeptical about "Results Only Work Environments". (Not that the person in the article has one, but..) It seems to me that a Results Oriented Work Environment doesn't (or might not) really reward the super performers (just gi
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
Yes thank you. The OP does briefly mention the "looking for rock star" thing, but I get mad that every single job posting I see seems to be "OMG MUST HAVE ROCKSTAR". Or gawds, lately "OMG MUST HAVE DAN SHIPPER". First, probably if you got a
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
I'm interested in how your experiment comes out, pay-per-story/story-points. Please do blog this. (I'm also interested how this interacts with pressure from Chickens "Oh, it can't be that many points" etc.
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
I'm sorry, I forgot where I was. (I'm on HN, where things are slightly different) Imagine being a regular joe employee: no equity, maybe a little bit of stock options, whose seen the price of things go up over the last 4 years little by l
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
and pay out the nose for it, from what I've heard...
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
I wish the "recommendations" part would have included, "Give your people a raise" (or "send them home at 5"). In the middle of recession style "your raise this year is the fact that you still have a job", a 5% raise would earn you a lot of
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The Mythical Team Month - a presentation on agile and small teams (vimeo.com)
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
I don't think that matters, in the post JOBS act world (in the US)
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
> What kind of equity are you expecting if you back a $100K project for $15? A very little amount yes. But if I can invest $100 (or $1,000) into a Kickstarter project maybe I "lose" it all, maybe make my investment back + enough money t
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by rpwilcox 14y ago
I'm actually kind of surprised the love kickstarter gets from the HN community. You know what I want from my kickstarter investment? Equity. Yes, rewards are OK ("yay a poster!") and there is something to be said about getting the satisfact
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
No - such a list would have to be of founders doing this. The legal-entity that is a startup has nothing to do with 1% of nothing. (See my conversation with ccory elsewhere in this thread)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Ohh, your shares. I would call that out somehow, because this is an important detail that I know I missed first reading. Certainly you're free to do whatever you want with your part of the equity... (but giving away 1% of the shared resou
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
What do your investors or board think about you removing 1% of the company's equity from play? (this is another reason why I don't like engineers getting paid in equity - that limits the availiable equity pool for investors to buy, baring s
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Another vote for the MS Natural Ergo 4000. I've bought 3 total, on two continents. My wrists also feel better than with a flat keyboard.
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Exactly. It's frustrating. See http://rwilcox.tumblr.com/post/20094754364/its-hard-to-insta... . It's a "story in 20 parts" about what can go wrong with a Raila install on OS X.
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Yes, it's hard to install Rails on OS X(rwilcox.tumblr.com)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Man, the guy's a marketer, you got to give him that. I can't wait until my next trip to SF in 6 months, when I can play the "Homeless Bum, or Homeless Founder?" game! ;)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
I always say something like, "here is your project evaluation, based the current desires/spec for your project. Certainly things can be add, removed, re-prioritized. When work begins this should be seen as a living document that grows and e

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