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Here’s a way to attract developers: Give away puppies(geekwire.com)
2 points by scottporad 13y ago|0 comments
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by scottporad 13y ago
Brilliant idea! Best thing I read on HN today.
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by scottporad 13y ago
That professor sounds like a jerk. There's about 1001 ways he could have said to that student, "Sampling classes in that way is disruptive," without being pompous and condescending.
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by scottporad 14y ago
Yes. It's exceptionally hard to find developers of any kind in Seattle, but it's even harder to find Python/Django developers because a smaller set of the developer population is familiar with those languages. Often, Python is used in acade
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Win a free puppy - Rover.com is hiring Python/Django devs(jobs.rover.com)
5 points by scottporad 14y ago|4 comments
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by scottporad 14y ago
I would argue that devs only think about what their cultures encourage them to think about. These days developer cultures value "do more faster", so developers think about speed. Until that changes, privacy will be a second class citizen.
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What Responsibility Do Engineers Have for Online Privacy?(scottporad.com)
9 points by scottporad 14y ago|8 comments
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by scottporad 14y ago
I started going down the "business cards are useless" path, but then I thought of a way to make my cards more valuable: I put a coupon for using our service on the back side. Here's pics of front and back: https://plus.google.com/u/0/phot
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by scottporad 14y ago
Tom-- Thanks for sparking the debate. Allow me a request, a comment and a question in response... Request: I ask you to distinguish Agile from Scrum. Agile is a set of principles. Scrum is a methodology, or process, based on those princi
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Poor Man’s Agile: Scrum in 5 Simple Steps(scottporad.com)
90 points by scottporad 14y ago|99 comments
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The Best Developer Team Structure(scottporad.com)
6 points by scottporad 14y ago|0 comments
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by scottporad 14y ago
"Hackathons run by companies have always seemed to me to be a way for them to unleash creative thinking without having to devote significant company time to it or make strategic tradeoffs." Yes. The internal hackathons I've been involved w
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Girl power: Seattle ranked 2nd for women entrepreneurs(geekwire.com)
2 points by scottporad 14y ago|0 comments
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How we grew out of Bootstrap(dangerisgo.com)
1 points by scottporad 14y ago|0 comments
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Are you Edmund Hillary or Christopher Columbus?(scottporad.com)
7 points by scottporad 14y ago|0 comments
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by scottporad 14y ago
+1, naturally. I work at Cheezburger. It's funny/weird to see my co-workers like this. It will be interesting to see what else they choose to show.
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by scottporad 14y ago
"If you are targeting angels and super-angels, the strategy of lowering your target may enable you to raise more money, more quickly." Wise advice. The first time I ever tried to raise money I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. One
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Tip from a VC: Raise More by Asking for Less(starkravingvc.com)
37 points by scottporad 14y ago|3 comments
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How Looking at Funny Websites During Work Will Make You More Productive(scottporad.com)
1 points by scottporad 14y ago|0 comments
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by scottporad 14y ago
You guys gotta download this app and check it out...this thing is amazingly cool!
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by scottporad 14y ago
i think this should be working better now. i added some caching to the blog. it's late where i am, so i'm gonna go to bed. hopefully the site will survive until morning.
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by scottporad 14y ago
I wish I were that clever because, you're right, that would be funny!
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by scottporad 14y ago
gah! sorry. just vanilla wordpress on a shared server. i'll see what i can do.
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Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard?(scottporad.com)
293 points by scottporad 14y ago|154 comments
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by scottporad 15y ago
The screenshots in this post are fantastic. To me, the real LOL part of this was the image sprite...Sutton didn't even bother to change the name of the file! Just shows that they were totally thumbing their nose at Estately and the law. He
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by scottporad 15y ago
I am unfamiliar with the moral problems people have with GPL. I have no personal interest in the GPL, but am just curious. For our education, would you elaborate on that?
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by scottporad 15y ago
If you're not new to programming, then I'd recommend a simple Javascript tutorial. You'll pick it up quickly. For example, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=javascript+tutorial
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by scottporad 15y ago
I don't know if this is a good idea. In part, because so much of a good idea is driven by a unique understanding of a market that a founder has. Also, in part, because I'm involved with an idea that nobody thought would work, but actually
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by scottporad 15y ago
1. No. 2. To get into it casually, I recommend that people start with Hackety Hack. If you're more serious, I would go take some class. Honestly, that's how I got started...I took an 8 hour class on HTML at the local university computing
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StackOverflow Data Illustrates Why I Prefer Hiring Experienced Developers(scottporad.com)
12 points by scottporad 15y ago|10 comments

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