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Fabrik | Fullstack Engineer | Remote (US or EU hours) | Full-time | Salary: $100-$120k Fabrik is a CMS for medium to large publishers. Full Stack Engineers at Fabrik are responsibl…

SEEKING FREELANCER | Distributed US/EU | Remote Only Looking for a full stack React/Node.js developer with a few years of experience. You should be comfortable building features en…

He applied to two positions, and the only rejection came days after no response from the manager who advertised his desire for BIPOC to apply and his DMs being open.

SEEKING FREELANCER | Distributed US/EU | Remote Only Looking for a full stack React/Node.js developer with a few years of experience. You should be comfortable building features en…

Yes. The "feed" concept makes sense for my email workflow. I get a few (2-5) important emails that I need to respond to every day, and tens of newsletters that I may read if they p…

Anecdata here. I just rented out my house in Austin last week. We had 14 people vying to sign a lease, and several wanted to bid above the price we are renting for. The real sticke…

SEEKING FREELANCER, NYC, Remote We are a small NYC based publishing company running a custom CMS. We are looking for help migrating Wordpress sites to our CMS. We're full stack Jav…

A lot of people are coming from cleaner places, and those places aren't necessarily big cities. Rather, suburbs and rural areas.

That's my point. It's a matter of perspective whether or not you find SF dirty. If you come from a cleaner place, you're going to feel like it's dirty. Berlin isn't much cleaner, a…

It's a matter of perspective. Coming from Boston or Copenhagen, SF feels like an extremely dirty and grimy city. So does Berlin. Parks in Berlin are littered with beer bottles and …

It's less about the safety net and more about re-entering your career at a similar level. In Germany you'd be hard pressed to explain why you took two years off of your career and …

Low salaries are not a good thing for the startups! Here's an article from a French engineer that is currently on the front page of HN: https://web.archive.org/web/20180925150228/h…

I grew up in Boston and lived in NYC for 4 years. Never learned how to drive until 2 weeks ago (age 29) when I moved to... Los Angeles.

Most founders aren't in that position, and Sama said that. Startups are mostly about doing the same thing over and over.

Issue #2, that slack is based on synchronous communication, is something that is always ignored. Sometimes I log in to slack and see a conversation that I want to add something to,…

Bootstrapping for now.

Yes. The week 1 update goes into that. http://johnomar.com/powwow-progress-week-1/

Industry level salaries are important. In addition to that, how do you create an environment that people want to work in for the next 10 years? I think remote work is a big incenti…

You used Otto as an example. It was acquired by Uber for $680M. Doesn't that mean company names might be less important than you think? I purchased powwowjs.com (js because it's a …

Yup, for sure. In the week 1 update I actually briefly talk about the stack. But future updates will go more in depth with things like db query profiles. http://johnomar.com/powwow…

Thanks, didn't know that. If the name becomes a problem I am completely open to changing it.