martharotter

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by martharotter 12y ago
Networking & meetups are great, as mentioned. I am also seeing a lot of people on good tech mailing lists start to reach out as well for co-founders. Groups like NY Tech Meetup ( http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ ), SF
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Seth Roberts has died(blog.sethroberts.net)
168 points by martharotter 12y ago|130 comments
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by martharotter 14y ago
Trello ( https://trello.com/ ) - task management Statsd ( https://npmjs.org/package/statsd ) + Graphite ( http://graphite.wikidot.com/ ) - monitoring & graphing Kippt ( http://kippt.com ) - link and article saving/sharing Zapier ( https
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by martharotter 14y ago
No, but that sounds like a great fit, thanks! Have signed up so I know when the next round opens up for applications. Thanks, great pointer.
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by martharotter 14y ago
We got rejected also. We're a designer & developer in Ireland, both early 30s (one American, one Irish). We've built a platform for designing/building magazines & newspapers once and publishing them everywhere (epub, .mobi, html, ip
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by martharotter 14y ago
Sites like Scraperwiki work great with Python, PHP and Ruby. Take a look at their examples and see which ones make the most sense to you.
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Etsy Hacker Grants Supporting Women in Technology(etsy.com)
5 points by martharotter 14y ago|0 comments
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Running Closed Betas: Which Users You Need and When To Stop(blog.intercom.io)
16 points by martharotter 14y ago|1 comments
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by martharotter 14y ago
The Big Web Show - http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow Founders Talk - http://5by5.tv/founderstalk I used to listen to a lot of the TWIT / Leo Laporte ones but they have gotten really long & I don't have time for them anymore.
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by martharotter 14y ago
Segregation is definitely unsustainable, but I definitely agree that mentoring and support groups can make a huge difference. I've often been the only woman on otherwise all-male teams before and it's never bothered me. But I always appreci
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by martharotter 14y ago
For me the electronic versus paper thing comes down to what I bought the book for. For a book that I just need to reference occasionally, epub is usually fine. For a book where I'm starting from scratch, learning new things and coming back
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by martharotter 14y ago
Depends what you want to do with it really. If you're planning on using Django or Python Image Library, start with 2.7. If you're not using any dependencies or frameworks relying on older versions, start with 3. Either way, as long as you w
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by martharotter 15y ago
Nomad Editions - New York city area (remote may be an option for this role) http://readnomad.com Web Developer for Digital Magazine Startup Nomad Editions, a startup creating digital weeklies for mobile devices, is looking for an awesome
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by martharotter 16y ago
I think the best point he makes is at the end: Ballmer is not a product strategist. He is in fact a fantastic salesperson, he closed amazing deals for Microsoft when I worked there. But he has no business defining product strategy, creatin
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by martharotter 16y ago
I am trying it for the first time, I just reserved an amazing-looking houseboat for a week in Amsterdam while I'm there for the Mobilism conference. Can't wait! However I had tried it before in Paris and New York, and many people's places
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by martharotter 16y ago
Great advice! I find the hardest part is just getting in the zone where I'm not distracted and constantly alt-tabbing to other things. Ommwriter ( http://www.ommwriter.com/ ) is a great writing tool to keep distractions at bay and focus yo
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by martharotter 16y ago
I use this in my home office - it sticks on any wall via static and wipes clean. It comes on a roll so you get 10 or 25 giant whiteboards which you can reuse. Absolutely love it. http://www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk/
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by martharotter 16y ago
Agreed, I bought two Zunes, a 120gb one and the Zune HD. The devices were fantastic but more than that I love the Zune software. iTunes drives me crazy, but the Zune software looks like nothing else Microsoft ever created. It's cool, intu
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by martharotter 16y ago
The best manager I ever had was amazing at this and the reason was simple: he understood downtime and he negotiated. So when we were trying to ship something and everyone was working late nights and weekends, he'd give us several days off a
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by martharotter 16y ago
Someone on the program now came to our Dublin OpenCoffee meetup last week to talk about it. He said that due to the cost of living, he was able to employ some very smart individuals who he wouldn't be able to afford to pay if he lived, say,
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by martharotter 16y ago
Kind of a bummer - the Zune HD was one of the slickest and loveliest devices I've ever owned. I can't help but think if they had tried to sell them outside of the US they might have gotten a bit more coverage/visibility.
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by martharotter 16y ago
Implying that the individual's browser is not modern might sound offensive. Lots of people aren't allowed to control which browser or which version they use at work. I would rephrase it as a feature thing to make it more objective. "You a
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by martharotter 16y ago
Agree. It's hard to imagine someone is going to be a great programmer if they've never given any hobbyist or intro coding a shot.
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by martharotter 16y ago
+1 for "Being Geek" - great read. Anyone read either "Mind Hacks" or "Performance Mind Hacks?" Wondering if they're interesting/useful.
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by martharotter 16y ago
I thought so too. Actually that might have been more entertaining. Instead I was left with a "Okay so whadiya gonna do about it?" feeling.
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by martharotter 16y ago
Nomad Editions - New York city area (sorry remote not an option for this role) http://readnomad.com Web Developer for Digital Magazine Startup Nomad Editions, a startup creating digital weeklies for mobile devices, is looking for an aweso
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by martharotter 16y ago
Nomad Editions - New York (sorry remote not an option for this role) http://readnomad.com Developer for Digital Magazine Startup Nomad Editions, a startup creating digital weeklies for mobile devices, is looking for an awesome web-standar
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by martharotter 16y ago
This looks really cool, Craig! Signing up now, fantastic idea!
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by martharotter 16y ago
Well keep up the great work. I'd like to do something similar here in Ireland, definitely, just not sure what kind of frequency makes sense, bi-monthly or so perhaps.
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by martharotter 16y ago
Really love the content, some fantastic and well-written articles in there. It looks great but yes Treesaver would be a bit easier/nicer to read. Would love to see more like this from other startup hubs around Europe, well done.

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