tzaman

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by tzaman 13y ago
Each and every, in fact. Because they don't come to us to see how (or not) our system works but to get their problems fixed in time, and by a top quality expert. (I'm saying this because we do a lot of research on both sides, and transparen
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by tzaman 13y ago
Bidding is the best way to get rid of the best contractors, because most of them won't want to invest significant time to compete with others for the jobs, so what you're left with are the most desperate or mediocre ones. And even those wil
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by tzaman 13y ago
Your speculation explains it perfectly!
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by tzaman 13y ago
Because first and foremost, we want to keep contractors happy. If they are paid well (by well I don't mean ripping clients off), they will come back and perform more work. Our long-term goal is to establish a trusted network of developers t
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by tzaman 13y ago
We had exactly the same frustrations with online outsourcing (being on both sides of the table), and now we have built https://codeable.io (focused only on WordPress for the time being) - 4 months after launch, we have more than 900 jobs
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by tzaman 13y ago
Nice, although not very informative, since you somewhat loose perspective with each step.
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by tzaman 13y ago
I wish developers had more sense of marketing in general - with all due respect to it's author(s) but BODOL (the word) sounds,... well strange, unsexy, uninteresting. It really doesn't do the language itself any justice!
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by tzaman 13y ago
I think you're confusing startup with small biz.
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by tzaman 13y ago
It would be nice to have some TL;DR on popehat, I don't always have the time for the full Law and order episode :)
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by tzaman 14y ago
I'm not saying workflows don't require instructions, quite the opposite. I am saying though, that these instructions don't need to be hand-holding tours, they can be subtle hints in the workflow, in terms of proper copy, icons, labels, etc.
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by tzaman 14y ago
Sure - their core concept was adding a walkthrough with a voice over. Since none of our team was native english speaker, we didn't feel confident enough in having our voices in the walkthrough. This means we'd have to hire someone at http:
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by tzaman 14y ago
I actually tried Kera for our product ( https://codeable.io ) and even had a Skype conversation with one of the founders, but I knew having a walkthrough guide (their product) was just a band-aid for poor UX, and as such, just a temporary s
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by tzaman 14y ago
I think you guys misunderstood the purpose of MVP, since your lessons learned part explains pretty much what we can find in Lean approach books. MVP is not a product, it's a learning process. Bugs have nothing to do with being lean (or no
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by tzaman 14y ago
for $10 a month, I'll build you a pinging service :)
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by tzaman 14y ago
There's an easy solution to that. Just install the free version of New Relic add-on. In there, you'll find an option to periodically check availability. That will trigger a request to the URL you provide every 30 seconds, keeping the dyno a
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by tzaman 14y ago
Idiotic title. Why should it be embarrasing? He was 15 at the time.
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Ask HN: How to get a domain from squatter
1 points by tzaman 14y ago|0 comments
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by tzaman 14y ago
What is it?
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by tzaman 14y ago
From what you have written I can see you don't suck (I'd need to meet you and see some of your code to actually assess you're good :). You see, you used words like "Bayesian", "Promises". Guys that I was writing about not only don't know wh
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by tzaman 14y ago
> Rockstars are a myth No they are not. One would think it's easy to find smart people who can learn new things , but I've dealt with both young and senior developers (by senior I mean writing code 15+ years) and was amazed how most of
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by tzaman 14y ago
That's kinda the point, not noticing what the browser version even is, because it's completely irrelevant (except with IE). What's important is that it follows standards and supports new features sooner rather than later.
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by tzaman 14y ago
Dear Microsoft, other browser vendors release new versions on a regular basis, regardless of the operating system number. This enables browser-related technologies to evolve at a more rapid pace. So please do us all a favor and stop lockin
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by tzaman 14y ago
Although the wording on our landing page ( https://codeable.io ) may be slightly off , this is exactly what we are after. We hand-pick and invite high quality freelancers to work through us, there is no bidding and they all have clear guid
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by tzaman 14y ago
It's nice, but I can't think of a use case for behaviour like this on the web.
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Ask HN: What is a "developer evangelist"?
14 points by tzaman 14y ago|19 comments
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by tzaman 14y ago
They're basically retaliating against her for speaking out about sexual harassment How is it sexual harassment when two guys have an internal joke that a third party accidentally overhears?
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by tzaman 14y ago
I don't approve what ms. Richards did, but I still think it's a bit hypocritical from SendGrid to post the message of firing her on facebook, because it's essentially the same thing: public lynch.
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by tzaman 14y ago
I hope I'm not the only one, but I really do feel lazily loading javascripts is an overkill and not worth it in 99% of cases. Even if your concatenated .js file ends up being huge, well, you can set expires headers for a year, and then asyn
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by tzaman 14y ago
My first and strongest point isn't really the text itself, it's the organization and more "down to earth" examples. Google and it's products have historically poor UX, and Angular is no exception. When you get to the page, you have 'devel
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by tzaman 14y ago
Same here, but let's be honest and admit that angular docs suck even more. Thankfully, there's a number of other resources one can find plenty of help.

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