Yes,
Having like minded people around who guide you throughout helps a lot.
That's what a team is.
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Having like minded people around who guide you throughout helps a lot.
That's what a team is.
It's always team that matters not the place, be it NYC or India.
"I did everything you told me to do, thanks grandpa!"
Yes, I asked what they meant by "3-tier" database but i got replied with the wiki page on multitier architecture[1]. Which is what i am familiar with.
I am really confused with this term, never heard of "3-tier database". Requirements you mentioned match to what the client is expecting (probably 99.9% uptime, up to 1sec latency, things like that). I can't get the work back now but for the sake of clearing confusion I have, I would like to know about "tier 3 database". Could you please share some ideas on what makes a database "tier-3"?
Pencil - Awesome tool for wireframing
Firebug - Simple, but powerful. Love the copy as Bookmarklet feature.
ColorZilla - Color Picker
Web Developer - Quick CSS writeup
Pixel Perfect - overlay image over top of the developed HTML, check your design
Fireshot - for screenshot
S3 Firefox - Manage AWS S3
Elasticfox - AWS EC2 Interface
Greasemonkey - User scripts
FireFTP - FTP client
JSONView - JSON Viewer
SQLite Manager
I wrote down a detailed explanation of my logic. The process of writing that document separated me from my own psychology and enabled me to make the decision swiftly.
Agreed. To the HN readers who type things often in computer, i would suggest to pour out with a pen onto paper next time, this is healer!
Everyone started with the "Wow!" programming moment of their life, includes me. What they did differently is - they never quited and kept learning and building things. I would suggest, you continue your Rails learning, build simple apps for fun on your own.
>>they were currently working on a half dozen startups (what I'd term "projects"; a startup needs focused development)
Yes. Often, I start from scratch and not with existing code/project.
This book could/will change the way we see things. Not only for drawing or art, principles from the book can be applied to any creative profession.
similar one but a bit lighter way to think: "you can't fake what you can't make".
if you are making things you are not faking, of course.
When you are searching for quality developers, we assume that you are a quality coder yourself, the developer you hire would sure grasp these things from you and your work environment quickly - if he/she is passionate enough to convince you that you should hire him/her for the job.
As far as i believe quality coding is achieved over time, this is a ongoing learning process. Those who mastered this art are not available - they already have figured their own way to go along. If you went on searching for coders and "quality coder" is your first priority, most probably all of your 3 points will always restrict you from hiring coders and there's where the paycheck flow as @kirpekar outlined applies. Whoever you hire, you as a manager should trust your developer in term of quality and give them a environment to grow not in terms of performance only but in terms of quality coding too.
I don't think i am a quality coder, manager, i am myself learning each days from discussion like this. It cost me 1 month (of my business) to build self learning and growing charisma in a coder i hired recently, he asks me only few question in a while these days - "i solved it, how would you have done this ?" we then discuss for improvements.
Try searching for basic qualities that matters to you and your work ethos and focus on skill set that you are searching for rather than "quality coder", this will ease hiring decisions i think.
what would have been your decision in such situation if you were Twitter Inc, i am just curious ?
username: username@yourdomain.com
pop.gmail.com as incoming server
smtp.gmail.com as outgoing server
Link : http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
the motivation :
working on your own and with your nearest developer circle is the only thing that you won't ever get at Google, Yahoo or Microsoft (GYM).
You probably ain't quiting any one of the GYM, right ?
You probably ain't interested in competing with GYM, right ?
You are going to launch your startup, right ?
Just do it.
[edit : added some line]
here is what happened:
my bid was accepted, job poster selected me for interview, he sent me 3 emails straight in last seven hours via private messaging on the bidding site. i asked him to share his contact, asked him to join me in skype, got no response. he continued asking "how would you scale", "how would you fix database..", "how would you speed up the app..", "what is preferred framework for such large project.." i was more concerned about getting my first job via such freelance market, i replied all his queries, spent my day goggling around the questions. when i hit the reply button to his 3rd email, there came a notification in my email inbox "you job application was declined." 3rd email was about preferred mvc framework for his web site.
my bad, this thread was not here yesterday.
yeah on Google's every attempt to be social they didn't success well, but UX researcher (Paul Adams) at Google have some good thoughts on online social hubs. seems very interesting. would we ever see such Real Life Social Network from Google or any others?
Link: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
edit: (added few words) and i am looking for full time and long term remote work.