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by jwwest 13y ago
Could someone explain what the point of Dropbox as a company is now? They literally own their space, everyone loves them, and I'm sure they're making money hand-over-fist. However, they raised another round? Why?
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by jwwest 13y ago
Link bait title aside, I'm a little bored with these "We don't like x, so you shouldn't use it" articles. The main downside of MongoDB is that it's new. This means less knowledge of best practices, incomplete o
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by jwwest 13y ago
> or remove useless buttons like the calculator and timer buttons Pure opinion here. Personally I use the calculator a lot on my phone, and love having a quick way to access it. The timer icon is actually the clock app, I got confused by
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I learned via Facebook I was laid off today(twitter.com)
26 points by jwwest 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwwest 13y ago
...and those of you who were laid off will no doubt be reading this email on our website as security has shut down your network access and escorted you from the building.
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by jwwest 13y ago
I really liked this part: >Throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream ebooks market at $12.99 and $14.99. Basically Jobs is saying "Hey, we can be in this together. Let's just give it a try."
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I am not a collection of bullet points(coderwall.com)
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by jwwest 13y ago
You're making a pretty big assumption that everyone works in consumer-facing markets, and not with small- to medium-sized businesses. The app store model is broken because it has too much Internet in it. Anonymity + Platform = arsehat. Deal
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by jwwest 13y ago
I'm an iOS developer in Dallas too. Without going into too much bagging on our terrible developer community, I will say that you have a couple of choices: 1. Bag a few freelance gigs. Build up your skills and confidence. 2. Try to get your
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by jwwest 13y ago
Someone coming in cold to freelancing will spend time building up to this level. They may need to take $50/hr jobs for a few months to build up a portfolio and references, and gradually raise your rates. Good, reputable clients will stick w
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by jwwest 13y ago
> Yahoo! Mail is still the #3 most used mail service in the world with Hotmail and Gmail in front of it. I'd love to see numbers of how many people ACTIVELY use these services and not just total email addresses. Many, many people I know
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by jwwest 13y ago
Pretty common in BigCorp land. The problem is that many of these IP Agreements are very badly worded. The spirit is that you should not take work you do for your employer and turn around and create a product that directly or indirectly comp
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by jwwest 13y ago
Where are the lies? Where's the fraud? How is any of this misrepresented? This is more of the ever-popular "eat the rich" sentiment. Frankly, until someone can show that: a) she doesn't have a daughter, or sons for the matter. and b) she po
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by jwwest 13y ago
> Assuming I Am Only The Last Thing I Was I can't tell you how much this annoys me. I've been programming professionally for over a decade now, and I've done a lot of things: C#, PHP, PERL, Ruby, Python, Javascript, etc, etc, etc. Takin
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by jwwest 14y ago
Everything seems to come back to that good ol' fashioned advice: "Do what you love and the money will follow" It's pretty cliche, but the point is that you need to actually enjoy what you're doing and worry less about the money (unless you'
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by jwwest 14y ago
Rob's book and the Micropreneur Academy is exactly what I was thinking of when I mentioned "hand waving" I've read the book twice, and subscribed for several months. I found that their advice consisted of two things: 1) Find a niche using G
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by jwwest 14y ago
Is there a decent resource for learning how to sell a product? Most of us can code and implement the technical parts of a business, but what we need is a Codeacademy for marketing. Something that's not run by slimy "internet marketers" or c
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by jwwest 14y ago
The problem that we all face, especially when we're new is that of discovery. Until you reach a certain level of notoreity online, creating your own little sandbox doesn't make sense. I could create a little programming blog, host it myself
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by jwwest 14y ago
Working Remotely != Working from home. Often when I'm working remotely, I'm either in a coffee shop or a co-working location, vary rarely at home. I don't like driving, so being able to control when and where I drive is huge. The big issue
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by jwwest 14y ago
Are unpaid internships something that's uniquely common in NYC? I scan Craigslist all the time for freelance opportunities and almost every single unpaid gig in New York is touted as an "internship". I have never seen this in listings in Da
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by jwwest 14y ago
The reason I'm upset, is that it sets a precedent for other companies: "Oh, look at Yahoo not allowing remote employees, maybe we shouldn't either" which sets our industry back 10 years.
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by jwwest 14y ago
The author of the piece, Penelope Trunk, has a well-established pattern: write a highly flammable headline followed by a long, off-the-cuff piece intended to grab attention and generate page views via controversy de jour. The article does n
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by jwwest 14y ago
Seeking Work, Dallas - Remote Full stack developer: Node, PHP, Ruby/Rails, SQL and MongoDB Mobile: iOS I'm a super-generalist. I've done everything from developing for obscure ERP systems, to social networking sites, to mobile devices. Rece
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by jwwest 14y ago
The best interview I ever had, I was given a problem to solve with a system, a whiteboard and 20 minutes. I sketched out a quick ERD, and explained the high level architecture of the system. No code was written -- it was assumed that I coul
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by jwwest 14y ago
Objective-C is a very verbose language. However, the author seems to be intentionally not using any of the features that Apple has built into LLVM that makes it more concise particularly the "dot syntax" which gives Objective-C the ability
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by jwwest 14y ago
It's disappointing that Yahoo = Mayer now in the media. I'm sure that plenty of talented people spent a lot of time on this, only to have it sound like Marissa Mayer coded the whole damn thing herself.
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by jwwest 14y ago
It worked for Foursquare. If I recall correctly, they had sold Dodgeball to Google then turned around and created the exact same product.
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by jwwest 14y ago
So much negativity for something that doesn't matter all that much. Does anyone believe that anything can truly be around forever? Will Posthaven be around in 5 years? Probably. 10? Looking dimmer. 20? No way. I look at it like your favorit
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by jwwest 14y ago
It may be a flash in the pan, but I'm starting to see the commoditization of programming talent here. Back in 1999/2000 we saw a rash of "learn computer repair and network administration by CD!" companies, accompanied by "certificate mills"
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by jwwest 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Dallas, TX or remote PHP / Ruby / Objective-C (iOS) / Node.js Developer http://treehousemobile.net https://www.dropbox.com/s/km8p1xybl698gg1/jwwest_resume.pdf

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