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mbijon

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About mbijon

Developer + engineer == hacker

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mbijon; my proof: https://keybase.io/mbijon/sigs/Ya7wbZ9G1XNkI5-FnyqA9FYJeCwqBEWVtEyyaQ7YNj0 ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #7947736

    Focus and time management. Regardless of whether you're an engineer, founder, sales/account exec, or any other role, if you can't allocate time to important tasks, work them hard a…

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    Comment #7413600

    Cloudflare's plans that include DDoS protection are as good or better than typical hosting resellers. May not know enough about your site to make the decisions a good datacenter te…

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    Comment #7008483

    I'll add another Toshiba support horror-story. It's why I haven't even looked at Toshiba products in 2-3 years: My work laptop (supplied by employer) was a Toshiba and had a 1-year…

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    Comment #6704340

    Yes, and that's your biggest risk. Tried a niche, online T shop with a friend years ago (before Spreadshirt existed). We worked with a local T shop at first but their minimums were…

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    Comment #5462579

    The first 60'ish slides are evidence supporting why inflation predicates cultural breakdowns, why gold has become a standard, and why a crypto currency offers advantages to gold. F…

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    Comment #5018416

    localinbox.com boostr.com

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    Comment #3881395

    Zombies? Where are the ninjas?!? That's right, you can't see the ninjas coming.

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    Comment #3686396

    Why isn't this a Kickstarter project yet? Forget about sign-ups, this is well enough organized to attract pre-purchases (plus I want one sooner).

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    Comment #3378394

    ...this isn't ideal. But with $500k/year, you can possibly consider a money-at-problem solution. (Hiring a good ops manager is its own problem, however)

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    Comment #3378383

    How do you think he would react if you hired an operations manager or director, who was responsible for tasking him with work? This would free your time up to grow profits, help ke…

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    Comment #2995436

    There aren't many stand-alone ORMs with last-gen frameworks, but they're increasingly important for noSQL. Would you add an ORM category? Also, you could avoid the spatial UI probl…

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    Comment #2956973

    It sounds like you're trying to talk yourself into this. Consider other options. Have you been interviewing for other positions actively (sounds like no, devs are very in-demand)? …

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    Comment #2843652

    My side project is full-time (40+ hours/week on lunarmods.com) for the last 6-months, but I still do part-time freelance work to pay about half the bills.

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    Comment #2838020

    Your valuation multiple (ie: 3x annual revs) is going to vary widely for a content site. @pitchups makes a good point about profits being used instead of revs, especially if you're…

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    Comment #2835173

    It sounds like you really want a free system. Redmine is a bit ugly, but it's the best free system I've used to track agile dev & it's stable .