AmberShah

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by AmberShah 15y ago
Just a guess, but between his indep contractors and volunteer moderators (as well as all those members), I'm betting he doesn't feel too alone. I have a tendency to say "we" when talking about running a group I started and it has < 200
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by AmberShah 15y ago
This is true, and is basically what I pay my nanny. I clearly could not afford to do this if I worked in a less lucrative industry. In that case, I would most likely stay home.
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by AmberShah 15y ago
I did for awhile, first for my local employer where my team was in the office and I worked from home, and then from a distributed company. These were both full time, and then I did part time for a different local company. I had a nanny ther
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by AmberShah 15y ago
Low pressure and also you have to sacrifice a goat just to actually GET anything to do. Went stir crazy.
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by AmberShah 15y ago
This is sort of what happened when they asked for the new features, we responded with estimates for that work and explained why it wasn't included ... they got pretty upset. Implied WE were the ones playing a game or something, when of cour
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by AmberShah 15y ago
This is good advice, and I think that's what went wrong in this case. We were told to estimate based on what we had, even though we needed to go deeper. The rationale was that we couldn't put so much time into a proposal that was so small.
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by AmberShah 15y ago
Well, the problem is that they insist on neither: that both the price stay the same and that the extra stuff is required. Rock - Me - Hard place. BUT I do feel bad in these cases because I believe they thought it would be included. Plus it
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How do you tell nicely tell someone their requests are not in scope?
6 points by AmberShah 15y ago|13 comments
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by AmberShah 15y ago
Based on the description of the design here I was expecting it to be a lot worse. The design is okay, but yes, A/B tests will let you know for sure. But the building-the-site-first idea is tops particularly because people can get worried th
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by AmberShah 15y ago
Yep, this plus look at the ones for sites that are similar to yours. Of course, you cannot copy those but they can give you ideas of areas specific to your app that wouldn't be covered in the WordPress ones. This is one of those things that
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by AmberShah 15y ago
I have to agree here. Personally it is too buzz-wordy for me and I wouldn't really be interested. Can you find like one or two solution statements in regular, even overly-simple, words? Tell me one thing I could do that I can't do now or wo
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by AmberShah 15y ago
I think this is a good idea because it is both simple and useful. There are lots of possibilities and I like that you already have the option for private or public flashcards. Here's the thing: you HAVE to update the design. This is very 19
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by AmberShah 15y ago
Assuming you are talking about the Tim Ferris 4 hour workweek ( http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/ ) then yes, but that's not really the problem. The problem is the unreliability of the pay when you work for yourself.
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by AmberShah 15y ago
Love it. I'm a mom and I already know I'd use this. Currently we use a combination of Facebook and email to get stories and pics out to people. So it would be nice if we could continue using them that way (ie. family members subscribe via e
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by AmberShah 15y ago
You know I like HN and reddit and other things but ever since reddit has been down all I can do is keep hitting refresh going, oh noooooes, please come back.... It's the whole denial makes you want it more thing.
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by AmberShah 15y ago
A few more suggestions I thought of: literotica.com is similar to fanfiction.net except focused on erotica and some crossover into romance or other. Some of the authors there have published their stuff (from the site and otherwise) through
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by AmberShah 15y ago
Just an idea, but you could whitebox the software and sell it to congresspeople to use on their websites. You are right that without the traction they may not want to affiliate themselves with you, but they still want the functionality. T
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by AmberShah 15y ago
I pretty much suck in a group setting. I mean I can follow okay, of course, but I rarely interject anything. This used to bother me but now I have mostly accepted this is the way I am. In a one-on-one setting, I am much more "normal". I
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by AmberShah 15y ago
Love this idea. Would definitely love to fund some of my fav authors, esp ones that post on free sites in spare time. I am wondering how this would work though. As a reader I'd totally do it for an author/excerpt I was psyched about. As
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by AmberShah 15y ago
What can I say, I'm a lists girl. There was actually a social lists site some time back, but I can't remember it now. I think it allowed you to make and share lists of anything, not even just lists (like, "what to pack for a camping trip"
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by AmberShah 15y ago
This looks good. Fulfills requirements, but a bit cluttered. Will try using for awhile and then upgrade to ads free. Thanks!
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What social bookmarking site has "lists"?
2 points by AmberShah 15y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Know of a service to notify of new books by author?
2 points by AmberShah 16y ago|1 comments
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Tenets of a Software Architect(codeanthem.com)
3 points by AmberShah 16y ago|0 comments
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What to say when you don’t know the answer to the interview question (codeanthem.com)
2 points by AmberShah 16y ago|0 comments
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by AmberShah 16y ago
And I humbly submit that my presentation, "Debunking Agile: How to put Agile to work to make your life easier and your software better" is at 5 pm in case anyone is interested. Come say hi before or after ;)
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Houston TechFest 2010 on Saturday, Oct 8(houstontechfest.com)
1 points by AmberShah 16y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Bringing toddler to Startup School
1 points by AmberShah 16y ago|0 comments
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by AmberShah 16y ago
I'm looking for alpha employers to find very qualified programmers through Code Anthem. Email me amber at codeanthem dot com.
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by AmberShah 16y ago
They may not know the details of the solution, but they should know the details of the problem and it should be a very painful one. I am in this scenario where no one is asking for my solution, but when I describe the scenario everyone is

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