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by toumhi 16y ago
French people talking in english between them. I'm sure lots of foreigners would not believe that :-)
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by toumhi 16y ago
25%?
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by toumhi 16y ago
Ha! I had this exact same idea not long ago, that's interesting. Have you talked to (potential) customers? I've had multiple times questions like "what's the advantage over google docs/screen sharing?" (which is free).
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by toumhi 16y ago
Asia or Latin America: a bit broad my friend :-) Do you prefer big cities or relaxed countryside? What kind of things would you like to do? If you don't like mountains, Nepal is not the right country etc. If I had to pick one place in each:
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Switching from employee to entrepreneur, day 1(sparklewise.com)
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by toumhi 16y ago
Guys, I'm not Brazilian but you should check out http://hackernewsers.com/users.html?User[city]=&User[cou... there are some people from Brazil :-)
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Order in an Asynchronous World: How Twisted Inline Callbacks Work(sparklewise.com)
3 points by toumhi 16y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 16y ago
This is what Michael Feathers calls 'seams' in his book, Working With Legacy Code. Often, you have to do exploratory testing, that is, you don't really know the requirements but you make tests that the current code passes. Then you can refa
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by toumhi 16y ago
Funny as I have also considered to tackle both of these problems. Translation is a big problem where I work, we waste lots of time going back and forth between developers and copywriters. This should really be streamlined. Hiring is painful
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by toumhi 16y ago
I coincidentally wrote a review of the book this morning :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134634 Have you also tried Market Samurai to find a niche? I haven't tried Micro Niche Finder, but Market Samurai addresses the same need: t
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Book Review: Start Small, Stay Small(sparklewise.com)
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by toumhi 16y ago
too vague but also too weak: "that pleases more users" (weak formulation, vague statement). Be bolder than that! Be specific, and focus more on benefits than features. Also, your target group is not well-defined enough ("companies"). Good l
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Travel Or Start a Business? Why Not Both At the Same Time?(sparklewise.com)
3 points by toumhi 16y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 16y ago
Dan Bricklin' story (and many others inccluding interviews of the founders of 37 signals, apple, adobe, yahoo, flickr etc) is featured in "Founders At Work". Great inspirational read, but there is no trace of an old trembling man with a che
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Defining Goals for a New Software Business(sparklewise.com)
15 points by toumhi 16y ago|2 comments
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Leaving My Job To Create My Own Business And Travel(sparklewise.com)
1 points by toumhi 16y ago|1 comments
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Using Memcached to Store Semi-Persistent Data(sparklewise.com)
5 points by toumhi 16y ago|2 comments
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by toumhi 16y ago
Sure, salaries are much higher in US, even more so in California. :-) But, by european standards, it's pretty good. London and Paris are more expensive cities and salaries are lower (except maybe in finance). I went from 31K in Toulouse (Fr
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by toumhi 16y ago
I would say salaries are good, comparing salaries and cost of living (comparing to London or Paris for example). I also heard contrary statements to yours regarding venture capital (may not be at the level of the US though). And, there are
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by toumhi 16y ago
Yes, if you use an elastic cloud, by all means, spin more instances :-) Most existing companies still have real servers however.
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by toumhi 16y ago
That's desired behavior, although much more difficult in practice than it is in theory. If 20% of your network goes down and you can still serve clients normally, it means that you have a big reserve of machines useful only in case in big o
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by toumhi 16y ago
Awesome! Especially the part about connecting with locals at barcamp. On the banking side, I've heard that paypal is a pain to deal with on the road, as they lock your account whenever you travel. And there are no really alternatives to pay
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by toumhi 16y ago
Hey, I'm thinking about stopping by in Siem Reap when I set off to southeast asia (and start working on my project) in a few months. Do you have some tips about good places to stop by in southeast asia?(by that i mean, interesting places th
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by toumhi 16y ago
Exactly, that's what I'm going to do starting end of february for 5 months. 2 months in jakarta where my girlfriend finishes a job, and then 3 months in southeast asia, planning to stay a couple of weeks in the same place, working on softwa
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Do Not Use Memcache As a Data Store(sparklewise.com)
7 points by toumhi 16y ago|4 comments
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by toumhi 16y ago
thanks for the advice. And keep us posted on this project of yours, or I will have to build something myself :-)
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by toumhi 16y ago
Well first of all, I don't dictate the hiring strategy at my company. I try to help in that department but i'm a developer myself. There is indeed an emphasis on academic requirements but I think other successful companies (google) have thi
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by toumhi 16y ago
scrapy ( http://scrapy.org/ ) is a well-documented and open source python scraping framework that I've used in a couple of projects.
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by toumhi 16y ago
Yes, I think we're not active enough in developer communities in general. Whereas facebook, 37 signals & co must have no problem finding software developers, it's harder for companies that didn't make a name in the developer community y
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Things To Fix: Hiring Software Developers(sparklewise.com)
3 points by toumhi 16y ago|6 comments

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