jharrison

Good call. Post updated. Thank you for advocating.

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We really embrace the title "consultant" and are often asked to make recommendations that will impact real financial outcomes for our clients.

Most of our work is in Rails and React. You don't have to be an expert in both but some experience in one or the other is preferred. If you're an expert in something similar, let's chat.

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ZEAL | Experienced Full Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Fulltime ZEAL is a software consultancy working with a variety of Fortune 1000 companies in various industries. We're looking for 2 folks to add to the team before the end of the year.

We really embrace the title "consultant" and are often asked to make recommendations that will impact real financial outcomes for our clients.

Most of our work is in Rails and React.

Details are here: https://www.codingzeal.com/hiring

If you have any specific questions, you can email me at jason@codingzeal.com.

ZEAL | Experienced Full Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Fulltime

ZEAL is a software consultancy working with a variety of Fortune 1000 companies in various industries. We're looking for 2 folks to add to the team before the end of the year.

We really embrace the title "consultant" and are often asked to make recommendations that will impact real financial outcomes for our clients.

Most of our work is in Rails and React.

Details are here: https://www.codingzeal.com/hiring

If you have any specific questions, you can email me at jason@codingzeal.com.

Zeal | Experienced Full Stack Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE

W2 and Contractor options available.

Zeal is a software consultancy. We work with a variety of companies, of varying sizes, and in various vertical markets. In every case our ultimate goal is to have them finish up feeling like they got more than they paid for.

That means that we have a great variety of projects for you to work on, with different challenges, and different business benefits to the client. This job is perfect for someone who gets tired of working on the same old thing all the time, and wants to be able to change it up sometimes.

Right now, we're specifically looking for experienced software developers who have worked on Rails back-end / React front-end or Node back-end / React front-end applications.

Our interview process is simple, and transparent.

1. As soon as you apply you'll get an email confirming that we got your application.

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4. After that we want to get some code to work on. We have a homework project you can use, or you can bring your own project as long as it includes Rails and React, or Node and React (depends on the position you're applying for). And it needs to be on your machine and ready to work on, because that's what we'll do together. If you use our homework, please timebox the task to no more than 2 hours.

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Love Bend! We've sponsored Ruby on Ales the last 2 years. We love that event and that area (Bend is one of my personal favorite places to go in the state). I'll look you up next time around!

Looking forward to it, alexcarroll!

Hey davidw, definitely a fair question. Truth is we actually started here and really want to grow here because we love the area. Thanks for your comment!

Not at the moment, but we're always excited to chat with anyone that's got a passion for the craft.

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Headquartered in the heart of downtown Medford, OR -- the center-point between the global technology hubs of Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, California. We also have offices in Portsmouth, NH and San Diego, CA.

We're looking for Rails, Javascript, and UI/UX engineers to craft solutions to delight and serve customers.

Collaboration and teamwork are key. We’re pragmatically agile, and believe in a sustainable work schedule.

You’ll fit right in if empathy, enthusiasm, artisanship, and appreciation towards one another are some of your most valued attributes. We want you to bring a deep passion and excitement for the engineering art form.

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I love how Philip goes through the things he tried on the way there, gives away the winning formula, THEN goes on to give away tons of other useful information!

If you're starting a mailing list, or already have one, this is a must-read. Philip basically tells you what steps to skip and then hands you a winning formula on a silver platter, saving you tons of time and effort.

Crazy good stuff.

I don't know about everywhere, but where I live (Oregon), many of the new homes have detectors that are not only wired for power (with battery backup), but also wired together such that an alarm at one will fire all of them. The devices seem to be mostly ordinary smoke detectors except for that connection.

If we start with the premise that there are more people accessing email from a mobile device then we have to take into account how they're doing that.

I have the Gmail app, iPhone's built-in Mail app, and Mailbox app. The only one of them that filters my email using the new Gmail tab structure is the Gmail app (which is not my primary mail app).

This also doesn't take into account that there are still thousands of businesses that are using Outlook to access their Gmail. B2B operations won't have to deal with the Gmail filtering as much.

There's no question that the new tab system has SOME impact but I don't think we can simply accept the numbers in the article as fact in all cases.

What you're describing is no different than many educational opportunities, is it?

I worked at a multi-campus, private college that had a series of classes for the MCSE certification program. Many of the students had no previous computer experience that would prepare them for the topics, and were told by the recruiters that riches await in the fast-paced world of network administration! The unfortunate truth is that most of those students weren't all that motivated. It wasn't possible for me, as a teacher, to give them every real-world scenario I could (I was a working network admin at the time), but I did my best. If they weren't motivated to study and to experiment on their own, they weren't going to get much for their money. They'd pass the class but they weren't going to pass Microsoft's tests or qualify for many positions if they weren't willing to go beyond the curriculum on their own time.

It seems to me that what Mattan is offering is no different than numerous other educational opportunities. Students will get out of it what they put into it. If they want to copy/paste his code and not ask themselves how it works, fiddle with it and see what happens, try to extend its functionality with their own ideas, then they probably weren't cut out for programming anyway. That's not his problem; it's theirs.

Which simply means that he now has a content asset that he can license back to Amazon for distribution if he wishes. It's seems like it could be a lot like a business owner buying a building under a different company name only to lease it back to their primary business for a variety of benefits.

Giving only three days and offering to assist with transfers could also point to the possibility that they really don't have that many paying customers to begin with.

The article also mentions proactive response to issues they discover on your behalf. FTA: "If a check fails, our experts will take immediate steps to get your systems back online as quickly as possible"

There are a number of other services listed on that page, including "Longview Pro - the professional version of our system-level statistics collection and graphing service (currently in beta)."

I got all that from reading the page you linked.

I'm also a solo founder/business owner. I get myself bogged down in projects, sometimes to the point that I can't pick out anything to focus on. This is definitely where having a partner/co-founder would come in handy.

The way that I've dealt with it so far is I'll grab one of my friends, technical or not (technical would be preferred) and I'll just start dumping. I'll go through all the things I've identified as hurdles and why I'm struggling with them. More often than not my friends don't have to say anything! Just talking to them helps me find something I had missed. They often have nothing to add but just speaking the challenges helped me find solutions. Someone mentioned talking to a rubber ducky in another comment and I suppose this has a similar effect.

Also, as mentioned many times, take a break. Go for a hike or go see a movie. Do something else. Give your brain a break.

You can also try getting out good ole pencil and paper and writing things down. Start a list of the smallest possible thing you can deliver and deliver it.

It's all doable given enough time so give yourself time.

Awesome. Morse code for your Android. Ship-to-shore coming soon! I think someone hit the publish button on the April Fools content early.

I'm not sure if you actually watched the video but it's clear that no "program" was created and that no education funds were supporting this young man. He used his own initiative to start a club at school and a single teacher sponsors the club. That's not a program. It's an opportunity for those interested in making apps to come together and share in the experience. Would aeronautics, accounting, or engineering clubs be beneficial to those interested in such subjects? Absolutely. There's nothing dumb or short-sighted in this young man's thinking. He thinks it's fun to share app dev with people who also think it's fun.

Me too. I went over to see a friend who had an entertainment center with doors that closed over the TV. I walked in and immediately asked if his TV was on. He said it wasn't (the doors were closed and no sound was coming from the speakers). I insisted that it was. To his surprise, it was. They were amazed. I was in my mid-20s.

It sounded like it was more of a presentation issue. He doesn't present well. They didn't say anything about not liking his ideas. "He's just not CEO material" is what I got out of the article.

If he solves their problems and the become customers why would anyone be pissed off? If it validates his idea it's far more valuable than the time he'd waste developing his concept in a vacuum. Seems like I've read somewhere that if you want to succeed in business you need to be OK with pissing a few people off.

It says pretty clearly in the article that he wasn't selling anything. He admits in his script that he doesn't have anything to sell. Your point is valid, just not applicable to this article.

Isn't that what the "Following" Circle is for? People who care about Minecraft add him to that Circle? Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of that Circle.

And how bad would it be if it wasn't so successful? Apple gets to point fingers at Microsoft for not being able to keep up if things go south.

You don't have to keep up if you don't want to. Your apps will not stop working if you choose not to upgrade. I have apps still running on Rails 1.x and 2.x. They don't get huge traffic and they are meeting the customer's needs. There would be no business advantage for these particular customers if I had to charge them to upgrade.

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A 5 million dollar exit and previous YCombinator experience (and the network that comes with that) would by my guess.

Thanks for sharing, Amy. It's been very educational watching your transition and hearing about your product success. I'm working on a new product and you've been a great motivator! Note to self: Stop using the 7-11 argument with your teenagers.