OptimusSubprime

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by OptimusSubprime 13y ago
You're bragging that your SaaS app, which serves hundreds of paying customers, runs on a single EC2 instance? lol
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by OptimusSubprime 13y ago
Solid advice all around. Most techies are scared of selling because they don't understand exactly what "sales" is. You're going to be awesome at sales precisely because you're not a stereotypical salesman. Sales is
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by OptimusSubprime 13y ago
Ugh, who gives two weeks notice to someone that's getting fired? At every company I've worked at, you don't even to return to your desk once they drop the hammer on you.
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by OptimusSubprime 14y ago
This whole post reads like "How Not to Use AWS" instruction guide. If you're running anything important on a single EC2 instance, you're doing it wrong. If you're logging in and manually configuring an EC2 instance, you're also doing it wr
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Why an EC2 Instance is Not a Server(jamiebegin.com)
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by OptimusSubprime 14y ago
Great points. Thanks! There's more than one right answer and I certainly don't have them all. My blog post was just a reflection on what I've seen be most successful over the years.
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by OptimusSubprime 14y ago
Granted, it could just be my lack of LinkedIn savviness, but it's never been a source of actual business for me (I'm the author of this blog post). The only people who actually seem to use LinkedIn are recruiters who sloppily blast off ema
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by OptimusSubprime 14y ago
LinkedIn is a pretty insignificant part of the article. I mentioned using it as a proxy to gauge the size of your professional network, and to find local interest groups. Overall, LinkedIn hasn't really helped my business all that much, o
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by OptimusSubprime 14y ago
I'm the author of the blog. Using the model that I wrote about, you "downshift" from a full-time job that has you on the front line, doing billable work to someplace where you're supporting internal business operations. This frees of you
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by OptimusSubprime 14y ago
The TG, Pylons, and Zope guys all joined forces under the Pyramid banner a couple of years ago. There are still people developing in each of those three projects (and I think it's largely still maintained), but the definite trend is to Pyr