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It depends very much on your current scope of influence. It can be hard to change a whole company, but easier to start with yourself and your team. Try doing one and see how it is received.
A previous CEO used to hold breakfasts once a month. It was really informal with a mix of people and a wide variety of work related topics got discussed. We could ask him things and he could ask us things. The setting made it really good for breaking down that communication barrier between juniors and The Boss.
In the town I grew up in (South Africa), there was a planning law that prevented the footprint of a house from being larger than a certain size. It had been that percentage for years and I'm hoping that it doesn't change because it's helped the area stay green and lovely without becoming overly built up.
Do similar planning laws exist in other countries?
There are two classes of payments - consumer and business.
This API is designed for business payments. Companies that process tens, if not hundreds of thousands of payments on a monthly basis. Think about the companies that sit behind businesses like Etsy or Uber - they need to take a lot of payments from customers and pay the supplier.
Many of those payment companies are financial institutions themselves who probably already have some kind of connection to programs like Visa.
I can also relate to the article because some hackathons that I have been to feel like you're building this thing that you know you are going to throw away. And events where you are able to use a new language you're under time pressure to just get it working rather than understand it. I'd rather spend a whole day on my own projects.
I've been to two other hackathons that are focused on attracting girls and women into the STEM arena (http://www.stemettes.org/events) but they don't exclude guys. The idea is more around splitting the participants into groups of different ability and helping them build something. I really enjoyed that the event is about learning/mentoring more than about wining prizes and I found it really rewarding to help kids that had some interest in coding.
The events are quite different from the 48 hour hacks because they are also catering for 6 year olds with short attention spans, but it felt like I was helping to show that coding is accessible to anyone of any age.
If you're a coder in London I highly recommend volunteering with them.
* How do you handle the cost of shipping if the user is not based in the USA?
* If I buy from a non-USA based site, how are the customs charges handled when the items arrives at your warehouse?
* How will you handle returns if the item is defective or damaged?
I was in the same position as you but replace PHP with Java.
I thought I didn't need a degree but then met people in the industry that I wanted to be like, but I was limited by not having a degree.
It wasn't possible for me to study full time and I didn't really want to as I wanted to continue to have my years of work experience growing, so I signed up for a part time course.
Two years before my degree was finished I was nearly passed over on a job because I didn't have a degree so it really encouraged me to get it finished.
With the last round of job interviews there are many that said I would not be being considered without the degree.
If I were back in that same position again, I'd choose to do it the same way. Your relevant work experience keeps growing but you still get a degree - it's hard work and long hours but I think it was worthwhile.
The article seemed common sense. I've enjoyed reading the other comments here more and found the links useful. Does anyone have good reading material on your long term financial health? (Longer term than budget and save?)
Does anyone know if it's possible to sign-up to trek with their kit for them to map out other remote places?
Comparing the use of positive and negative words doesn't take sarcasm into account.
I'd use this but not as a resume tool. I'd use this as a motivational tool to keep track of the todo items I have since some of them are quite long running and to motivate me into getting those personal projects finished.
Looks really excellent. Wanted to check it out to see if it's something I could get in to - didn't realise it was iPhone only until I already gave over my email address. Would be nice if this was clear on the website.
* Tell them how much money and how much time it saves.
* Where possible convert time into money.
* If it costs a lot of money, tell them how long it will take to recoup the investment.
* Give numbers.
* It is possible that your boss does not control the purse strings - so when you give your numbers make sure it's in a format that they can forward to their boss with few changes
I always love reading these CV's.
What do you think is the developer / programmer equivalent of CV's like this?
The real products that I've seen pinned are mostly clothing. People will pin a look or a series of pictures that build up a look.
There are two drivers for this that I've seen. Either bookmarking clothes to build up a look that they will then go and buy, or bookmarking clothes to buy once they go on sale.
One of the things I struggle with buying clothes online is being able to look at all the things I like on the same screen and then decide what I will buy. (H+M does this well). Some retailers limit the baskets to 10 items (Next used to) so even though I'll only buy a few in the end, the only other way to compare items is to open lots of tabs. This doesn't work at all when it's a flash based store. (Esprit.com suffers from this) So I use pinterest for this.
The other time I pin products is when I want comment from other people. I'd rather have these comments on Pinterest than on Facebook.
One thing that would make me pin products more would be if I could make a board private. Then I would pin ideas for Birthday presents and I would have used it to pin ideas for wedding dresses. But private boards are not what they're aiming for and doesn't fit into the context of the article either I guess.
1. Your tag line could be shorter. What about instead of "Get SupportBee - The Simple & Snappy Email Ticketing Software that doesn't kill Your Human Face" rather using "Get SupportBee - The Simple & Snappy Email Ticketing Software".
2. The focus on not killing your human face sounds wrong. If you turned the sentence around it would come across as more positive - "Promote your human face" perhaps?
I have a Natural 4000 too. I had wrist pain for years and then it got drastically worse in a few months. My partner recommended the keyboard and within two weeks my wrist pain was completely removed with no other lifestyle changes. I've had it for two years and the pain has stayed away.
Apart from RSI relief I find it has also increased my typing speed.
Another woman programmer here: I'm glad I'm not the only one who assumed this.
What did her contract say?
I thought the idea was interesting so I followed the link to your site. From the tag line, I initially thought that this was going to cost me $18 every month. It was only after reading the other text on that page that I realised that it's a once a month opt in.
I created one because when people google your name it will return as the very first result. This makes it quite useful to have all of the information that you want to be found available first instead of the random posts from 5 years ago that no matter how hard you try will always float near the top of the results.
What were the most popular services that the existing business was providing? Is it possible to provide these services outside of an agency?
If your mom knows where the demand was inside that agency then she should draw from that when creating her own company. Perhaps business trips were the main thing they booked? Or young adult tour style trips? If she could focus on what was still selling maybe that is a way to go forward.
Does she still want to be a travel agent or is she looking to do something completely different?
I'm a big fan of good recipe sites and this one looks like a great idea with the ability to vote and especially to view recipes by foodie.
Some comments
* I'm not sure if the word 'foodie' is well known
* I agree with the comment of the default fridge item - it's too busy
* There are not enough recipies / foodies per page because the icons are so big. On a big screen they are a little overwhelming.
* The grey / black main colour on the interface doesn't seem appetizing. Might be worthwhile experimenting with a few colours?
* I love the layout of the ingredients - very easy to read.
* I get question mark characters instead of the degree symbol.
* I see on the Homemade Chocolate Goodness Part 1 that there is a comment (which I assume is you) to allow ingredients to be listed in sections - I think this is a very important feature because it makes complicated recipes easier to read
* You have some escaping going on for user with profile 38 in the panel opposite the picture. See "At the end of the day"
* Perhaps give foodies the ability to not show the preparation column in the ingredients list as not very many of them use it - or else if there are no entries then don't render that column.
* The tags (main tag list) are difficult to read because they are alphabetical horizontally and not vertically
* Would be great to be able to search recipes by preparation time
I really like this site - definitely going to sign up and browse further! If I find anything else I'll comment again :)
The current trend to offer things on HN is amazing. I can't wait until I can figure out what I can offer in return :)
"As long as you can email them to us" - is this the only mechanism for sending the photos? I realise you might have written this to simplify the page, but my first reaction was that I'd rather be able to upload them. Then on the 'Photo Guide' I do read that I can upload them. Perhaps instead of that sentence on the home page it would be better to link to the Photo Guide.
Looks like a pretty good idea though :) Good luck with it!
University will teach you the underlying principles of computing and give you the foundation and knowledge to be a better programmer, but it won't necessarily teach you how to be a programmer.
It doesn't teach you a variety of languages or the language that you hope to work with professionally. It doesn't teach you about version control or how to work with legacy code.
I decided to get a degree because it would make be a better programmer and hopefully that has happened. But it wasn't going to a university that taught me how to get stuff done in a language I like.
For reference: I have been in the programming industry for seven years and only this year will I finish my degree (been studying part time).
A few things:
1) no download, no registration - but I still have to enter a username and password. So I don't understand why you say 'no registration' when I still have to register a username
2) there is no compelling reason for me to install this - it took a while to find this which I guess is the main reason I would install it: 'Synchronized: Access Dashler from any computer and browser.'
3) When I clicked on 'Home' I expected to go to http://www.dashler.com/toolbar/ - I did not realise that the toolbar was not the main thing about Dashler. Then it also took me a while to work out how to get back to the toolbar page again.
4) I agree with a previous poster that I would have loved to see screenshots as I can't view videos at work
Lastly - looks like fun and an interesting idea, but it's not completely clear to me why I should want it. Perhaps you need to make that more clear on the front page.
This seems like a rather short sighted approach to live by. The things that matter to you now will not neccessarily be the things that matter to you in the long run.
How would you verify that those who sign up as students are in fact students? It may be simpler to go with the other suggestion of x number of free graphs per month.
1) on the actual reviews page you could probably save space by not displaying a whole row for an upvote with no text review
2) if users have the ability to add their own items to the list, you are going to need a way to monitor the lists for duplicates or items that are not specific enough - (example, iPhone) or items that are wrong (iPhone Blackberry). Since you are starting with a clean slate in terms of products, it will be most useful to you to ensure that the product names are kept as clean as possible, this will make it MUCH easier to integrate with a price service if you plan to monetize it that way in future.
3) I'm not sure what the 'revisions' button is supposed to do (not technically, I mean in terms of usefulness to the site). I was able to rollback someone else's review to a previous version.
4) Product lists can grow to be quite diverse and you will need a way to categorize the lists the same way that products are grouped into lists. For example, you may need an Electronics category where all PC's, cell phones and GPS's are listed. And futher on you may need to break the cell phone category into 'Smart Phones' and 'Cell Phones'. Advice for this is that if you do plan to monetize by connecting with a price service then map your categories to that of the price service because it will be easier to sync up your products later (unless they really don't match your categorization in which case you will need a way to match them up behind the scenes.)
5) Don't know how you would approach this one, but when I went to 'Blogs for Entrepeneurs' and clicked on 'Paul Grahams Blog' I could see that the response was positive so I would want to check out this blog. If I didn't know who Paul Graham was I would need to then google his name to find his blog. It would be nice for items like that if the person who creates the item could add some text or blurb about it. But I'm not sure how that would translate when adding an actual product that is not a blog.
Hope that was useful :) Good luck with it!
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