gearoidoc

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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Sorry, you're a million miles off the mark. The cover letter is your chance to explain Why you want to apply and Why you'd be a good fit. The resume explains Who you are (professionally). The Why is just as (and sometimes more) im
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Thank you - purchased!
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
> OK, we need to qualify what is meant by 'product'. I'm not talking about a palette swapped iteration on an existing product. I'm talking about something new that the market hasn't yet quite seen before. The sor
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
DragonDrop - miss it on a daily basis :( http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/42610/dragondrop
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
> Generally you double an engineer's salary to arrive at the total cost to the firm of retaining their services. It's a fair point thought I do think 1-3 engineers is still plenty for "most" startup products to get to
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
> Engineering, product design, graphic design (these are not the same), marketing, and sales are all needed in various proportions, depending on the product, to make a "marketable product." I'm well aware. I've done t
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Same thing. Are you telling me that to "make a marketable product" you would need to pay 10 engineers $100k for a year? Hell, just hire 5 engineers at $100k a year (which is expensive) and that still leaves you with a decent budge
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
"You really need about a million dollars to make a marketable product." wat? There are countless examples which disproves this (eg. Basecamp)
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Isn't that exactly what P2P/IAP is?
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Depends on what you define as 'much money'. I spent 3 months building Hipster CEO and its made me approx $40-45k (as well as leading to other projects). Not a bad return for 3 months work.
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Gratuitous but relevant I feel: If you're into startups and Pay Once and Play games then Hipster CEO is probably up your alley: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/hipster-ceo/id731368826?mt=8
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Thank you. If more people thought along the same lines as you then our industry would be a much better place.
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Experienced first hand when I said on a FB Messenger call that I was considering buying a Roomba. Guess what was advertised in my feed later that day? Note: I hadn't so much as googled Roombas before this - it was a totally off hand re
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
"This group feels that it is vulgar and crass to even mention money or economics in the context of art or pure academics" - I'm not sure where you're gleaning that from - my point was there was/still is a social con
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Or, I dunno, maybe it makes for an enjoyable read.
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
I agree with you with one caveat: there really was a social contract in place that said something along the lines of "Finish third level and you'll walk into a job thats better than flipping burgers". That contract has been
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
"from not the best colleges" You do realise that it's a considerable achievement for someone from a working class background to go to third level at all, right?
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
I see your point but surely you agree peer comparison is fair? No doubt the author has things better than generations before (though you do have to factor in things like increased expectations as a cost for this) but if this was the only me
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Please explain how you believe its pretty trivial to escape poverty? A grossly ignorant statement that.
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Well it wasn't very good at PDAs but we got the iPhone...
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Great community spirit there, fella.
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
The parents parent comment discusses keyboard drivers. They wouldn't operate very well without them.
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by gearoidoc 10y ago
Web developers don't need to know how a keyboard works. Nothing much more complex than key press down/up anyway.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
The content of programming boot camps will eventually be moved to high school curriculums (I'm not sure if they currently do this in North America or not). This will be a good thing. Students who were somewhat interested in programming
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Quite a busy space that. What pain points does your platform offer that others dont?
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
It really depends on your product. Is it an app? SaaS? Have you validated yet?
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
What if the tool doesn't allow you to use it how you'd like? I'm a member of a couple of Slack teams. Some I need to be on for 1 on 1s and the group chat is handy from a social perspective. However, I see the same red badge o
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Wouldn't consider that excessive. And I wouldn't hold your breath for a "genuine mission beyond profit"!
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
> the mentally ill make everyone (especially those homeless who have fallen on hard times) less safe. Statistics please.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Whats with the purple rabbit? Or am I seeing things?

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