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by rpwilcox 15y ago
In addition to the issues raised before, I'm curious about one thing: How does he treat his developers? For example, the guy mentions that it's mostly 9-5. Does that mean that the boss expects 20 hours days for 3-4 days for a weekend to s
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Excellent! I'm glad a big presence in the startup community is willing to train people, instead of demanding: "OMG I CAN'T FIND ROCK STARS I R D00MM333ED!!!!!!" like I see so many other companies do :)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
There are a few - I think I've seen two or three, including myself... but they tend to be met either by deafening silence or lost roar of people/companies looking for technical people.
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
I created a survey about what people would like in a site that solves this problem (posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3209163 ) Got some interesting feedback and information, haven't yet done anything with it.
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
[citation needed]
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
From the US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division: http://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/ > There is no limit on the number of hours employees 16 years or older may work in any workweek. So, disregarding overtime, yes: you could technical
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
If you're a learned professional (matching all of the three criteria on the page - one of which is salaried), artist/creative, teacher, law/medicine practioner, or are highly compensated (making > $100,000/year) overtime doesn't app
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
IANAL, but I believe the law is slightly more nuanced than that: http://www.dol.gov/compliance/topics/wages-overtime-pay.htm Overtime doesn't apply to a number of class of workers (including executive, administration, professional, outsi
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
I thought that myself. "Wait, shouldn't they know they've been giving out more stock then they should have??!"
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
It's great that you're caring about the things that you do, but what's a corporation's primary goal? increase shareholder equity Especially , I would think, in companies that received millions of dollars of investment from outside sour
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
fixed, thanks!
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
woh. Good point - added to the form!
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Seeking a cofounder? Help me understand what's important to you(wilcoxd.wufoo.com)
7 points by rpwilcox 15y ago|6 comments
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
I always add Cucumber, Machinist, Omniauth + devise, formtastic, show_for, foreman, and (lately) the twitter-bootstrap-rails gem
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Harrisburg PA) Ruby on Rails, iOS/Mac app development, Python (Turbogears, Django), C++ I've been using Ruby on Rails for the last 3 years, on a variety of projects (some 7 engineer, 18 month projects, some minimum vi
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
I think this is a problem that needs solving. Occasionally developers need business people as co-founders (even just to get a SWOT marketing analysis done before you build that MVP). I think there is a lot of places to meet technical cofo
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
> And if retrieveURL is nonblocking, then iteration is nonblocking. Something I mention in the article/paper/whatever is using operations that are technically blocking to call functions that happen asynchronously. So there are certainly
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Exactly. The fibonacci generator (and subsequent async implementations) are one of the things I looked at when writing the article.
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
The way I understood it is that if I have a section of Javascript that takes, say, 1/2 a second to run, and does not yield control back to the event loop, by definition blocks the event loop from firing. In a preemptive multithreaded enviro
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
It was originally written in OmniOutliner, then exported to HTML. I'll see about tweaking the CSS...
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Node.js: details and best practices (a server side guy's analysis)(wilcoxd.com)
72 points by rpwilcox 15y ago|20 comments
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Ask N: node.js best practices?
7 points by rpwilcox 15y ago|1 comments
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
If the idea seems viable I'll put it in my personal Kanban board (in a "Waiting" swim-lane). This Kanban board is a project level queue - one card per project. If my "Active Projects" kanban swim lane has some space, I'll pull from the "Wai
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
beat me to it :) E-Myth is totally worth it for freelancers to read, and probably startups too. (I'm the former, not the latter, so I don't know)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Here is not a bad place. There's also the HN Freelancers Google Doc ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs... ) - it lists ALL the contractors. I'm also on that list, BTW :)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Wow. Pretty much gold right here. It took me years to figure most of this out. So I'm guessing you, like me, keep the client informed about "Today I worked N hours, making the total amount for this milestone M hours"?
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Ask HN: Freelancers how do you keep clients informed about cost?
6 points by rpwilcox 15y ago|5 comments
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
SEEKING WORK Experienced Ruby on Rails engineer (3 years experience), and Cocoa developer (I've been writing in Cocoa for the last 8 years). If the project is big enough I can bring a team to bear on the project: I have a number of really g
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
* iTerm with the Hotkey Window profile (so iTerm is hidden until I hit a function key, then it comes down like the Quake Terminal) * BBEdit (available on Mac App Store) * Divvy (available on Mac App Store) * Keymando (available
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
This is why I don't think the product owner should have the sole power over the backlog. In addition to business stories that need to be meant there are at least two other areas whose stories are as important: development and testing. May

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