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Comment #31373083
Are there other examples of commodities that turned into investments? Tulips? Is that how all many bubbles form?
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Comment #29198762
Search for church content management system companies, etc and apply for jobs on their dev teams. You would have valuable product insights.
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Comment #28575448
If you match 40% of a job posting, you should apply. Those requirements are there as an ideal, not actual requirements.
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Comment #28293388
You could do a lot worse than to choose Ruby on Rails.
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Comment #23221387
I think he’s saying the owner will comp him deliveries. Not pay him back.
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Comment #23192065
> I still say for the poor level of diversification within & around asset classes that I don’t see a lot of shining examples of how to achieve success. Wouldn't you expect a poor l…
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Comment #18355409
Location: IA Remote: Preferred Willing to Relocate: Yes, to Orange County Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Heroku, etc email: noah@noahc.net I'd love to talk to companies that are lookin…
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Comment #18034749
Depending on the complexity of the ecosystem and the experience of the developer 2 weeks to 1 month might not be enough time. You'd also want to be worried about the code slinger t…
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Comment #18010264
What do you want to have happen with this post?
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Comment #17989183
I don't see why it couldn't be done by almost anyone given that they live close enough to work. Anything less than 10 miles is doable assuming you have a good route.
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Comment #17988404
I've cycled through winters with wind chill in the -15F range and up to a half foot of snow on the ground. So, it is more than doable to do in both those cities.
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Comment #17939037
Yeah. I think you need a corporate account though. Do you have metrics in place to see if you can improve performance? Have you played with dyno resizing based on load or time?
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Comment #17924888
Have you worked with Heroku to lower your bill?
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Comment #17528182
You've already answered your question. Be someone that does non-f500 for a decade, then slowly introduce the f500 features and in a decade you'll be where you want to be.
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Comment #17526489
You should give up now. You're smart enough to program, but you're getting in your head too much and until you fix that it won't happen.
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Comment #17526452
Just go along with it. It's up to them to figure out where to place you in the company.
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Ask HN: How to get started Moonlighting for established companies?
I’m wondering if anyone has any practical advice for getting started moonlighting, in particular with ‘boring’ companies and industries. I’m not all that attracted to ‘change the w…
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Comment #17102961
> If a company wants to try me out, I'm more than willing to do a contract to perm, but my hourly rate is going to be enough to cover self employment taxes, make up for not getting…
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Comment #16917978
As an experiment, I was able to do this in under 3 minutes with ruby. I'd say I'm an average programmer.
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Comment #16914797
> Ruby is hard to get a job in, so you are off to a rough start. Why do you say this?
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Comment #16913655
I understand your suspicion, however, I find it odd that the author couldn't code AND recorded a video discussing his code. It seems like he'd hide it away if he couldn't code.
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Comment #16746690
Can you provide a source for this?
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Comment #16639924
What do you mean by life times?
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Comment #16446516
When you say these countries are doing it, who inside these countries? What organizations or political groups are doing this?