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Actually I would bet hiring on skill rather than personality, relationship with an employee and culture fit are responsible for more company kills than vice versa.

this... You will end up throwing out much of the initial code, but use what you know in order to get in front of customers and collect feedback. Your customers don't care what lang…

How long does it take to receive the pdf? It has been almost an hour and am still waiting on my email with pdf attached.

I was about to make a call to Jesus, and see how this could happen.

Surprised this isn't a more popular response. Vagrant/Puppet for local development * this way every developer has an identical dev environment. Git for code versioning - Github/Bit…

I suppose Shaggin' Wagon was already registered.

Exactly, I am more efficient working remotely and not dealing with the BS, so I am not sure what it would take, but the result would not be worth it for the company hiring me. Why …

Have never used it nor considered it. The driving force behind most of the new languages I have adopted; is a friend with experience who plants seeds, then can offer support and an…

I would have them split the expenses. Seems like the fair thing to do.

I went through the interview process with a major startup and was basically told the same thing. "You will get bored as a software engineer for our company. Looking at your past hi…

SEEKING PROJECTS - Distributed Remote Team We have extensive experience implementing and teaching lean principles. We primarily handle backend work, but have a designer and UX guy …

I imaging there are some of you out there like myself who are a step past freelancing and have a team to tackle entire projects or augmenting another team. Please lead with either …

so wait, your domain expired, you ignore the emails sent, then after the redemption period is over, GoDaddy legally sells it. Somehow they are the bad guy. I know that is an oversi…

Wow, I didn't even notice that I got that wrong.

I thought the article was intriguing and understand the underlying principles, but the photos look so obviously photoshopped. I don't understand writing the story and faking the ph…

offline networking, blogging, word of mouth = 90%

A full pipeline with fun work and great rates. You might think about narrowing your question down a bit.

Pretty cool. Much easier to drive when going offroad doesn't slow you down. :D

I don't know of anything like that, but could definitely see a market for it. We do some of that in a consultancy masterclass I am part of, but nothing that organized.

1. Pick a niche or industry you want to work with. 2. Get in touch with owners/managers in your chosen area. 3. Take them to lunch and discuss their business. Watch their face and …

If you actually read the story you would see that this happened in South Africa. USA may in fact be worse than Russia for gays, but your proof needs to be more thoroughly vetted.

I think a class like Noah Kagan's "How to make your first dollar" would be good for you. There are problems all around us that need solved. Most people only want to solve the sexy …

Are you worried that if you tell HN what you are selling, everyone is going to want it and swamp you with sales? Tell us what it is and we can give you better information.

If you work on a mac, I have had some luck with ScreenHero http://screenhero.com