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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 language/framework is being used, they only care that you are easing a pain point for them.

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/Bitbucket for repo hosting

* each feature has a branch, then we use pull requests for review/merging into staging branch.

* when features are LGTM and tested, pull request to merge into production branch

Capistrano with multi-staging to deploy to staging and production servers

* every developer can deploy to staging

* only a few developers can deploy to production.

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 do so many operate under the assumption that remote workers are a handicap?

I have a separate dedicated office building, and don't work from my bedroom, living room, etc.

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 answer simple questions as I am learning. I have no friends that I know of who use Erlang.

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 history, you are probably not a good fit for this position. We like you and are more than happy to support you in any way we can with your next endeavor."

Leaves you with mixed emotions.

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 at our disposal. We love analytics and customer feedback.

Email: bweber@spinuplabs.com skype: spinuplabs

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 oversimplification, but do their terms and conditions say they guarantee to change the nameservers during redemption? That way if you happen to ignore the other methods of communication, you will notice that?

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 photos. Did any of it even happen?

Photos -> http://www.redbubble.com/people/sikhcaptain/works/10813204-c...

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 when they show you a pain point, try to pinpoint the cause.

4. You should discover more than a few problems they would spend money to have solved if you talk to enough of them.

5. Follow up with an email thanking them for their time and mention again how you have been giving some thought to a particular pain point. Try to find an article, software package, etc that attempts to solve their pain point and send them the link.

6. Build a true MVP (should be embarrassing, yet offer value to them), and follow-up with an email. Tell them you have been thinking more about their problem and wrote up a quick dirty app that might help them. Offer to demo it for them. While demoing discuss how much their pain costs their business.

7. Iterate based on their collective feedback.

8. Based on the discussion about pain costs, come up with a value-based price for your solution.

9. Refine your MVP, follow-up with another demo. Sell them a subscription to your solution. It may still be rough, but you should be able to demonstrate value and savings compared to their pain costs. CLOSE THE DEAL.

10. Follow-up

11. Iterate

12. Follow-up

13. Iterate

14. Follow-up

15. Iterate

16...Rinse... Repeat.

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 problems, but find a niche that you know well and start doing interviews with people in the field. Talk to enough of them and you should discover a problem they will pay you to solve.

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

Have to totally agree. Looking right now for a house around North Denver. The search part of the equation is horrible.

Are you a developer?

Any good developer should recognize that encoding. :-)

I have been waiting for this... :)

would something like flippa.com fulfill this need?

If not what features is flippa or others missing.

On patent transfer, I am not familiar with that, but I would assume that process is much more complicated than transferring ownership of a site and domain name.

I agree homebrew is great for installing web stacks, but I am guessing they may be asking about repos for less technical software.

So for those of us who don't actually just download anything that may be crap, why not have a link to your product feature page somewhere?

Reading through that I feel like a bro with spiked hair, striped shirt and a fake tan is read-yelling it at me.

There is a fancy indicator for when it is too late to start something and advance towards being proficient. It is called death (maybe not that fancy).