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Re:Thank HN: You guys helped me land my dream job. on Monday June 02, 2014 @12:32PM (#7834336)
This is awesome. Well done!
Re:Let's have coffee. on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @09:03AM (#6675055)
Nice!
Re:Introduced to VC/VC is asking for money to pitch him? on Friday October 25, 2013 @08:48PM (#6615716)
Walk away. Make sure they hear you laughing as you go.

Just a Product Manager that wants to contribute.

Posted by bjpcjp on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @07:17PM
from the self-post dept.

Here's the deal. I'm a senior product manager in Austin. Most of my experience is hardware (semiconductor) or related software (IP, dev tools). I spend every waking moment reading Hacker News / Platformed.info / @asmartbear, playing with Rails/AngularJS/MeteorJS, or scribbling down ideas for new products.I have plenty of time on my hands thanks to a management team that can't get out from under...

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Just a Product Manager that wants to contribute.

Posted by bjpcjp on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @03:07PM
from the self-post dept.

Here's the deal. I'm a senior product manager in Austin. Most of my experience is hardware (semiconductor) or related software (IP, dev tools). I spend every waking moment reading Hacker News / Platformed.info / @asmartbear, playing with Rails/AngularJS/MeteorJS, or scribbling down ideas for new products.I have plenty of time on my hands thanks to a management team that can't get out from under...

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Re:Barbarians at the Gateways: High-frequency Trading and Exchange Tec... on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:51AM (#6566157)
My company builds memory ICs that sometimes sit beside the ASIC or FPGA on an HFT card. The bandwidth & latency numbers didn't surprise me, but the cost of power certainly did. No wonder customers are always crawling up our butt on power consumption.
Re:After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder on Thursday October 03, 2013 @11:27AM (#6489555)
Congrats to Jennifer. Much respect.
Re:A beginner's cheat sheet for web development on Friday September 20, 2013 @03:06PM (#6419854)
This needs to be on a shirt. (Probably in very small font.)
Re:Bots Gobble Up Restaurant Reservations in the Bay Area on Monday August 05, 2013 @12:33PM (#6161101)
SO happy I don't have to live out there & deal with that crap.
Re:VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 years expe... on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @07:47AM (#6051208)
Update

Justin, thanks for the private reply as well. Props for the consistent and genuine efforts at damage control.

Re:VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 years expe... on Sunday July 14, 2013 @09:13PM (#6043079)
Speaking on behalf of a LOT of people - F 500friends and the under-30 horse they rode in on.
Re:Starting Forth – the classic Forth language tutorial on Thursday June 20, 2013 @06:55AM (#5911292)
My first job after grad school with at Harris Semiconductor. We were selling RTX processors which natively ran Forth instructions. (The architecture was completely stack-based.)

I agree that Forth is a liability today. I could see it being used as an introductory language - in junior high school, for example - but not much beyond that.

Re: on Saturday June 08, 2013 @10:23AM (#5844931)
Hey, I hear ya. Much respect to the Radar O'Reillys of the world.
Re:Which JS framework should I learn FIRST? on Monday June 03, 2013 @03:30PM (#5815338)
tks @electrichead, I've got copies of the JS Cookbook and Crockford's "...The Good Parts" at my fingertips.

Which JS framework should I learn FIRST?

Posted by bjpcjp on Monday June 03, 2013 @02:33PM
from the self-post dept.

Let's face it. JS developers have a great problem - there's more interesting frameworks being intro'd each week. Being competent on multiple frameworks is hard enough if your main job is as a developer. As a product manager, I'm in a bind.Why is a PM asking? Well, my company is pretty small & doesn't get application development at all. (Don't get me started. It's depressing.) So I develop...

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Re:Want a job in Silicon Valley? on Friday May 31, 2013 @03:52PM (#5800976)
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=ruby+or+python+or+javascript+or...
Re:Want a job in Silicon Valley? on Friday May 31, 2013 @03:38PM (#5800880)
Props to RTP too. Not to mention better basketball.
Re:Want a job in Silicon Valley? on Friday May 31, 2013 @03:35PM (#5800860)
I do - an excellent point. Don't get me wrong, I love coming out there to visit. (Especially in June/July/August.) But the cost/benefit seems way out of whack unless you've already done a startup & have an inside straight to more startup $, or already have family in the area.

It's not just me: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/Whats-the-dark-side-of-S...

Re:Want a job in Silicon Valley? on Friday May 31, 2013 @03:32PM (#5800839)
@throwaway1979, see above & good luck!
Re:Want a job in Silicon Valley? on Friday May 31, 2013 @03:31PM (#5800833)
Done. The Austin tweet is in my Buffer queue.

I suggest http://capitalfactory.com/, http://ati.utexas.edu/, http://techranchaustin.com/ for starters. Also consider hitting up http://austinonrails.org/, and any of the Javascript/R/Python meetups. Every one of them seems to be packed every week.

Happy Friday, 'yall.

Re:Want a job in Silicon Valley? on Friday May 31, 2013 @03:27PM (#5800821)
Here's a great starting point: http://capitalfactory.com/. They are connected.
Re:Want a job in Silicon Valley? on Friday May 31, 2013 @01:52PM (#5800097)
I live in Austin. Same concentration of crazy smart people, only with less attitude. Did I mention that you can actually buy a house here? With a chance of paying it off? And a 25 minute commute?

THIS is why 1 of every 50 cars in Austin has a California license plate.

EDIT: there's less access to VC money here. But that doesn't seem to be stopping people.

Re:Ask HN: I need to learn D3. Help design my curriculum. on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @02:24PM (#5788037)
+1 on the O'Reilly book.
Re:My Dad The Engineer on Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:21PM (#5660490)
This is so awesome. Wonderful stuff. Props.
Re:It ships when it ships on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @07:48PM (#5598714)
I can think of several multi-billion-dollar customers that schedule their product releases to the day, quarters in advance, with untold advertising / validation / manufacturing commitments on the line. If your prototype isn't on their doorstep ON THE DAY that you promised, a competitor is selected to take your place. NO BULLSHITTING AROUND. MAKE A SCHEDULE, ACCOUNT FOR THE RISKS, AND EXECUTE.

I can't believe this blog post is even allowed to exist.

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