terryjsmith

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by terryjsmith 2y ago
I'm working on a "low code" web app that helps developers build web apps (not marketing or blogs or e-commerce sites). Create your data models in the app and get an API, a database (or connect your own), and a Next.js app wit
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by terryjsmith 5y ago
TBH I didn't dig all that deep. Once you look at the size of the market (~6000 US hospitals, most of them in groups [0]), annual subscription (would need to be some fraction of what they would pay in penalties), percentage of market sh
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by terryjsmith 5y ago
I agree with everything you said. We're in the ACA space, so this should been right up our alley (government puts new legislation in with penalties to force employers to do something they don't really want to), but the ACA had a m
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by terryjsmith 5y ago
I did some research into this for my current employer and the challenges are pretty well laid out here: the penalties are minimal ($300 / day or $~110,000 per year), the data is kept in the invoice or billing systems, which are complex
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by terryjsmith 5y ago
My understanding is that the bonuses were paid out in the final stages of the negotiations for the bailout package.
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by terryjsmith 6y ago
This is great. How do they deal with the on-going maintenance of the tools they build? Do they move to the main product team or does the internal systems team continue to maintain them?
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by terryjsmith 8y ago
I find it humourous that the latter is "normal". Netflix and online streaming really have changed our perspective; I'm not even that old (30!) and I wouldn't call "watch any show anytime" normal.
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SEC says Ether and Bitcoin cryptocurrencies aren't securities(wired.com)
3 points by terryjsmith 8y ago|0 comments
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by terryjsmith 8y ago
Just show up - I started this last year going to the gym - if I didn't feel like going to work out, I just went to the gym and messed around, did whatever I felt like, even for 15 or 20 minutes and then left. The discipline has transla
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by terryjsmith 8y ago
Two reasons in my experience: first, reproducability gets orders of magnitude more complicated as you grow. One person can do something over and over with no documentation, a few people can learn from them, but once you get to 10 - 20 staff
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by terryjsmith 9y ago
Plus kids clothes! My wife and I do about half of our clothes shopping for our 2.5 year old at Value Village and bring stuff there that we or she don't use anymore. She doesn't care about labels, the clothes are cheap, and she&#x2
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by terryjsmith 9y ago
Technically, of course you can, but practically, if someone sued, you would probably have a hard time convincing others that you are complying with your own policy. It's probably easier to just to change your ToS/privacy policy.
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by terryjsmith 9y ago
This is spot on. I would add that as a manager, it is my job to foster good relationships with other managers and use those to remove bottlenecks for my team. I spend a good portion of my day on the phone and walking around the office conne
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by terryjsmith 9y ago
There are definitely valid criticisms on the application of zero tolerance policies; I agree that bullying in school is a go to for overreaching. But sexual harassment and harassment in general have pretty rigorous tests (repeated, stated t
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by terryjsmith 9y ago
That's the issue, right? Everyone wants "diversity", but no one wants quotas or hard lines that could discriminate against other groups. I think you need to do your best to root out any biases in your hiring process or people
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by terryjsmith 9y ago
While there are some concrete next steps in here (hire a COO, management training, HR training, the "Rooney Rule"), what is the goal and how do these steps connect to it? As far as the harassment stuff, I think the solution is cl
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by terryjsmith 9y ago
As someone on the hiring side of the table, I rarely care about how technically complicated it was and more about WHY it was hard, how you figured it out, and how you avoided it in the future. I've made some really dumb typos in my cod
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by terryjsmith 10y ago
As with any interview, I like to make it as personal as possible. Tell me about something you have architected and why you've architected that way. I will ask probing questions about why you chose this stack, this database tech, this i
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by terryjsmith 10y ago
In my experience this goes hand and hand with getting your messaging right. If you have a product people love then you can work to articulate what they love about it and your marketing efforts become more focused and profitable. I agree tha
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by terryjsmith 10y ago
Having helped a company that went through our accelerator to get a start-up visa for the three founders, the deal isn't great, but it is a more direct path to citizenship. You do need to go through not just an accredited investor, but
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by terryjsmith 11y ago
I've thought about this on and off for a few years and have one thought: e-mail will find a way out of the inbox. It is now an almost ubiquitous way to deliver something to a contact, especially on mobile. I know this is fuzzy, but I i
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by terryjsmith 12y ago
FWIW I second this, it looks beautiful, but setting up a site on my VPS takes work; even if it's 20 seconds to download and install, I have to set up configs, DNS, directories, etc. Would love to see a demo.
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by terryjsmith 12y ago
An account service network for developers: http://www.gowalli.com/ We connect freelance developers (and small shops) to a professional account service person (we're recruiting AS people from larger agencies to do some
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by terryjsmith 12y ago
Hey HN, Developer here. I would certainly appreciate any and all feedback. As a consistent over-developer, I am trying a more minimal MVP approach to see if there is interest in where we're going from developers. We have seen significa
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Show HN: Gowalli – A customer service agency for every developer(gowalli.com)
2 points by terryjsmith 12y ago|1 comments
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by terryjsmith 13y ago
As someone who has/still is coping with burnout, I still find relaxing to be very difficult most of the time. I exercise now, eat better, my day job is no longer in programming, but while relaxing I still feel like I am being unproduc
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by terryjsmith 13y ago
I imagine it's not much different than different real world currencies; they'll all become relative to one another through a common conversion rate (ie. USD). Plus somewhere in the middle someone will create a meta-cryptocurrency
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by terryjsmith 13y ago
This was likely an inode issue on the operating system/kernel and how it represents S3 on the filesystem, especially if you're using something like S3FS.
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by terryjsmith 13y ago
I would argue that they're definitely made up, but not completely bullshit. It's a yardstick for a sale price: if the investors need to get out at least X, then that's a good starting place to start shopping the company arou
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by terryjsmith 13y ago
Well Porter as an airline is likely making a big bet on this for their downtown airport in Toronto so there is definitely a use-case there. I'm not sure if this is a contingency plan on their campaign to get the runway extended and no

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