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by spencerfry 13y ago
Thanks for the support. We're trying to solve a similar problem as BetterWorks was, but with a completely different approach. If you're unfamiliar with BetterWorks, you can read more about them here: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/bette
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by spencerfry 13y ago
Here's a post on learning to code: http://spencerfry.com/why-and-when-to-learn-to-program I'll follow up with some more code posts in the future. I wanted to keep the "Introducing Uncover" post to be focused on the startup.
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by spencerfry 13y ago
Here's my blog post on our launch: http://spencerfry.com/introducing-uncover
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Introducing Uncover(spencerfry.com)
1 points by spencerfry 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup(uncover.com)
178 points by spencerfry 13y ago|140 comments
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by spencerfry 14y ago
The premise of do what you're good at is great. However, even the non-technical examples listed still require quite a bit of technical knowledge (accounts, management, payment flows, notifications, etc.). The good thing is that these are fa
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by spencerfry 14y ago
We can hope!
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I Sold My First Code(spencerfry.com)
3 points by spencerfry 14y ago|0 comments
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by spencerfry 14y ago
I applaud Danielle for writing this piece, but it should be really obvious to any startup founder. If you're not growing in any important metric: change course. It's not rocket science. The problem with raising money too early is that it's
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by spencerfry 14y ago
Totally agree. I should probably clarify that point to say that we looked at both revenue and expenses. This is especially important if you plan to bootstrap for some time as we do.
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by spencerfry 14y ago
What kind of bugs have you found?
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by spencerfry 14y ago
You can turn it off here: http://*.disqus.com/admin/settings/?p=discovery
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by spencerfry 14y ago
Heroku does a good job of notifying its users.
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by spencerfry 14y ago
That's true, but the overall themes apply to most -- if not all -- countries.
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by spencerfry 14y ago
I'm not sure the origin exactly, but Googling found that the term supposedly comes from the mid-80s: "Around the mid-80s, the term ‘human resource management’ arrived from the USA."
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by spencerfry 14y ago
I don't think either of us are saying that they're unnecessary or useless. We're just saying in 2013, technology can make these processes more efficient as well as better designed.
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by spencerfry 14y ago
Those are my feelings exactly. I'm not as familiar with companies over ten employees -- I've never been in an environment any bigger -- but I'm sure that if we're having issues at ten then companies of one hundred, five hundred, and thousan
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The State of Human Resources(spencerfry.com)
22 points by spencerfry 14y ago|13 comments
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by spencerfry 14y ago
Wasn't meant as an "ego leak" as you say. It was only meant to emphasize that I've been doing this for a long time and had many stops and starts. I was only really able to start learning when I figured out the when and why for me.
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by spencerfry 14y ago
We have similar life experiences it seems. I'd suggest putting off all thoughts of managing, promotion and monetization when you're learning to code by building your first project. If that stuff happens. Great. If it doesn't happen, then yo
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by spencerfry 14y ago
This is so true. I've only been programming for around a year, but I now have a much better understanding of what goes on under the hood. In the last few months, I've gone from doing 100% to 20% of the coding as I'm now working with a bette
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by spencerfry 14y ago
I couldn't disagree more. It's very elitist to say that interested minds shouldn't pursue the field you're in because they're asking the wrong questions. The better and more productive approach would be to educate them by answering their qu
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by spencerfry 14y ago
I agree. I've become a huge user of Intercom. Great app.
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Bring Time Tracking Into Your Application(getharvest.com)
53 points by spencerfry 14y ago|3 comments
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by spencerfry 14y ago
Getting an Error 999. Here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:B4tHkMj...
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by spencerfry 14y ago
I wrote all the way back in November, 2009 that three co-founders was better than two. http://spencerfry.com/threes-company I've since changed my thinking that two co-founders is a lot better and that both of those two people should be te
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by spencerfry 14y ago
Carbonmade is built on .NET.
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by spencerfry 15y ago
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript (mainly JQuery). I'm just beginning to learn HAML and SASS, but for now it's been ERB and straight CSS.
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by spencerfry 15y ago
Funny you should ask! I wrote two articles about the specific things I did at Carbonmade as the CEO: http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do (This was actually based on a 1,000 day old Hacker News comment of mine: http://news.
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From Business Guy to Programmer(spencerfry.com)
83 points by spencerfry 15y ago|45 comments

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