buildops

80 karma · joined November 11, 2014

buildops··on Ask HN: What companies are doing work related to scientific computing?

Check out Ceemple http://ceemple.com/ Accelerates scientific community (think of it as a faster way to do scientific prototyping over MATLAB)

buildops··on Ask HN: Guide to becoming a dad?

Books Dr. Sears and the AMA has one. Their dad book is junk, because either it's mostly health and most of the dad books are written as if you are a bungling fool.

buildops··on Ask HN: Where do you find out about webinars?

What are some of your favorite blogs?

buildops··on Amazon Home Services

2 days early for April Fools

buildops··on Ask HN: What tools do you use for development?

C++ on Windows

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 IncrediBuild http://www.incredibuild.com

Also web development LAMP, Expression Editor & Visual Studio, and Bluefish text editor

buildops··on Average age accepted for YC??

Won't be a problem joining as a young person. May be a problem getting accepted at 30+

buildops··on Ask HN: How do I start with test driven development?

Have you tried Typemock? It helps you get started with unit testing and offers a free version

buildops··on Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

What do you recommend instead?

buildops··on Ask HN: How to learn sales and online marketing

But best online resources come from Hubspot, Growth Hackers, Google Analytics, etc.

But just as programming is a profession, so is marketing, so it's important that you get professional marketing in ASAP.

buildops··on Ask HN: How to learn sales and online marketing

Get an MBA :-)

buildops··on Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available

True. In addition, builds can sometimes be slow on MSBuild. Of course, if you're interested in cross platform development Visual Studio 2015 provides some great new features. Additionally, coupled with IncrediBuild (https://www.incredibuild.com/cross-platform.html) you can get some blazing fast builds

buildops··on Which email service provider does HN use?

Have you tried Mandrilla?

buildops··on Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

Check out Zolair Energy -- it aims to get cheap energy into Africa and the rest of the developing world, based on zinc air batteries. Founded by some of my MBA classmates http://zolair-energy.com/

buildops··on Ask HN: How long do your software builds take to run?

What are the benefits you find from running integration tests?

buildops··on Ask HN: Bored at my dev job. Don't know what to do

Learn new skills, both technical and biz. On the biz side, learn product management, project management, Agile, scrum, etc. Play with new tools and try out new things. And yeah, welcome to the real world kid :-)

buildops··on Ask HN: How long do your unit tests take to run?

Have you tried using any tools to speed up your integration tests? Something like Typemock Isolator which can run only the relevant tests during the build or IncrediBuild which can use unused network resources to speed up slow builds.

How often are you testing?

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