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amberes

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About amberes

From developer to manager and back to developer again

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    And what for a +40 someone? Can't go and waste time at school again. I got contacted by my cofounder. Back when Rails was hot, he looked on forums, found some posts of mine, invest…

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    Comment #9549618

    Is this going to be a real product, or is it a joke? 20% of me thinks it's a joke that I'm not fully getting (I'm not native English speaking, so that might be the problem) If it'l…

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    Comment #9476148

    Concerning marketing and design: http://allthesmallthings.co/

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    Comment #6432066

    About €1000 from a subscription based web analytics niche thing and another €2500 from my wife as she works for the government.

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    Comment #6317674

    And what if you don't have a decent partner available? Just take the plunge with someone and hope it's a good fit? Been there, prefer to try it on my own now.

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    Comment #6316695

    I'm sorry, but I think validation of an idea is probably one of the worst reasons to get a co-founder I've heard.

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    Comment #6309355

    May I offer some practical advice? You do have extensive logging, especially around the buggy code? Do you have source-level debugger that shows your variables and that can step/tr…

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    Yes, we once had a more or less finished base product. But at that time my co-founder had to start doing sales so he shited his pants and suddenly invented a whole new addition tha…

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    Blah! I just did some abstract reasoning tests and i had an excellent score. Now, the tests on the net might be crap... Bu who says the tests HR uses aren't? People aren't even abl…

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    Comment #6292010

    But then, not getting what abstract thinking is about is probably a good sign that you aren't an abstract thinker?

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    I once failed a test because I wasn't good at abstract thinking. And they decided to be a good developer, you had to be a good abstract thinker. At that time, the test was already …

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    Comment #6280052

    Forgive me for being paranoid...

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