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Yes, i understand, but where did that cash come from? If it's from investors, it "doesnt count" for our conversation purposes

I speculate that the direct-listing + SPAC's created by Chamath are at play here.

Bad things happen when you have parties involved in an idea that aren't directly working on that idea, coupled with lots of money.

We've all seen this movie 1,000 times before.

First off, how is Palantir "cash rich"? A look at their financials they're losing money just like all the other shit startups on the NYSE.

I did not go to college/university for engineering, but just hearing the tools of 'real' engineers is great.

I've been opening up Jekyll in the morning as the start of my day. I write the blog post for the work I'm about to do. I've noticed that I'm getting better at explaining the problem clearly and the solution. When there is a paragraph that feels out of place I yank it into a different file immediately to get it out of the current flow of the post. The paragraph felt out of place because it was probably a distraction from the problem Im trying to solve today. Also, the great thing about this technique is that I have a blog post at the end of the work day that I can look back on and say, "Damn, I shipped something" if I didn't feel like I shipped anything else (common problem in our field of software developers)

Hire me, I'll tell you - short of that, keep asking like a broken record at the end of every week. At some point they might break down and tell you -

Here's how I implemented what you're asking to my company: I would first ask how they are doing and how the project is going. And then I would ask if theres anything we could improve - the first few times, nothing. After that, they would tell me improvements (finally)

Maybe, but the asian market will eat this up

Initial feedback, why does this site have all the fancy loading gifs etc, why not just ake it basic html like sites like https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ ? It will help keep the maintainability of the site down since this feels like overkill for a info site

Wow, love this article. The context of this article is how I ran my consultancy and the developers didn't enjoy my choices to choose the "boring" tech over what new tech they wanted to bring in, in the middle of a project. "Secrets of Consulting" is a great book if you've never read it, too

I love this. Reminds me of my MajorMUD days, thanks for sharing

I like to see how other people try to "optimize" their lives. Unfortunately there is no silver bullet, but definitely some takeaways from this lifestyle I like:

* Multiple blender pitchers (to not have to keep rewashing one)

* The multi-photo frame on the desk (I would probably put cars/places to travel or that I have already traveled)

* Dedicated 3pm time to exercise

Most of the actual activities of this "fully optimized life" are completely subjective. This optimized life description is really just a routine and sticking to it. If everyone actually stuck to a routine, they would also have ample time, but most everyone allows distractions to de-rail them.

After reading the comments, no one asked about "which"SaaS business model. Yes it is extremely possible to bootstrap a SaaS business alone depending on which model. Example: help a reporter out that peter shankman grew into a Monster of a SaaS business.

Another example? GroupOn. Was a email newsletter first.

I've seen a group of guys go sign up for Wordpress and were generating $2,000/month themselves for a kickstarter-like concept by using plugins. Not all SaaS businesses require a programmer, especially these days.

Will certain models require a programmer at some point? Maybe. Maybe someone just wants to build 10 SaaS newsletter sites that all generate $1,000/month each... $10kMRR in total with no need to hire a programmer.

If my whole way of making money dependent on awesome bridge builders and I could only find those bridge builders in Europe, do you think I would want the government to allow those people into the country - or at least somehow give me access to them? When reading anything that has to do with immigration, keep this in mind: "follow the money".

Do you have a direct contact for the Ruby work?

We work remotely. All of us. Remote worker or Digital nomad, pick whichever you feel like sounds better to you.

We have several blog posts about this topic since the entire company is 'Remote'. A couple blog posts that you all might find useful straight-from-the-source below, I've listed them in importance from what I think is the biggest bang-for-the-buck for remote workers.

Schedule your days: http://www.sofetch.io/blog/2015/5/19/stay-productive-schedul...

How to work remotely: http://www.sofetch.io/blog/2015/8/4/how-to-work-remotely

How NOT to work remotely: http://www.sofetch.io/blog/2015/8/3/how-to-not-work-remotely

Last but not least, all of our 'desks', some have offices to stay focused, some don't: http://www.sofetch.io/blog/2015/7/23/so-fetch-desks

PHP is perfectly fine. The people that have a problem with it are usually people that have only coded in PHP before whatever-language-of-the-week-is-they-are-using-currently.

Its unfortunate that people bitch and complain about .NET sucks, or Java sucks, or XYZ sucks. At the end of the day, were you able to get done what you needed to solve the problem?

If you want, contact me at corey@sofetch.io, and we can talk about how far along you are? If the platform is 50%+ finished, we may be able to take it on, knock it out, and consume a hefty % of equity.

I run sofetch.io, we build and design web and mobile apps.

This is a typical rebuttal from programmers when they don't know how something works underneath.

You are correct about "why" libraries are created.

Since, I'm assuming you're talking about Open-source libraries: what happens when theres an issue you're having and wondering why the library isn't doing what you want?

I am a software developer and I do not have a design-bone in my body. Everything I try to "design", looks worse than Craigslist. Bootstrap, for me, gives me just enough structure when building Version 1 of a web-application to make it look good and not paint myself into a corner. It works for me, best thing I could say is, use it on 3 projects and then make your decision

SF, LA, NYC, Chicago, Vancouver, Miami, Atlanta, DC, Austin, Madison, Las Vegas

Awesome, thank you for the info (Glassdoor), that's helpful!

I am that good, I just rather see if theres any companies people have suggestions for before going out blindly and taking a chance of wasting the company's time and my own, if it's not a right fit off the bat

Location doesn't matter or else I would have put that in the post

Very well is anything that people might consider "very well" that they're already getting. Or, an example would be, you heard Billy Bob Construction has a few Ruby jobs and they are paying stacks of cash

Loosely based off of the "1,000 marbles" story. If you want to enjoy your life more, read this story and then go buy a jar of marbles :)

http://www.motivation123.com/news108.txt

Whats your email?

I'm assuming you've seen: https://www.bountysource.com

Agreed. This site has nothing to show us on how its going to "collect". The standard "Hey, share this with friends and get them to donate too" is not ground-breaking. I've seen some REALLY cool ideas in this space and they never saw the light of day since the person(s) didnt want to take it places

I really hope this actually already built and not some sort of "launch-rock page to see if theres buy-in" lean methodology thing going on here

Agreed. Or what Github did with their t-shirts, where it said, "github.com/________" and you filled it in with a sharpie.

Its a gold-rush to write mediocre software to get millions in funding and eventually be acquired. Rinse and repeat.