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How to do a Hiring Process that Doesn’t Suck
This idea is on my list for quite some time. It's simple and fun. I really don't know why I waited so long to build it.
I'm also planning to add some competitive features, like a leaderboard. But I liked your idea. A duel mode between two or more players sounds really fun!
And I agree it works really well with movies, but it's on the roadmap to expand to tv shows, games, books, bands, songs...
Do you want to try one of the hardest emojis? Take a look on this: https://guessmoji.io/emojis/78/guesses/new
The skip button should take you to another random emoji. And maybe it did, but it was the same random emoji as before. I should probably add some code to don't let this happen.
Show HN: Guess the movie from the emojis
The most important skill for a software developer
GitHub missing feature
I'm a single player
Small is not enough, think tiny
Everything can work, and everything has its advantages and flaws. You just need to know where you're, and have a strategy to succeed based on your business model.
He could never write code against the production database when developing new features. And if he was doing it, it wasn't his fault, considering he was a junior developer.
And who the hell is so stupid to don't have any recent backup for the database used by a piece of software that provides millions of revenue?
In the end, when you do such a shity job protecting your main product, shit will eventually happens. The author of the post was merely a agent of destiny.
Useless jobs that every big company should have
But I also believe that any entrepreneur considering to start a company in Europe must research deeply, in a way that he find facts, and not only opinions from people from Internet.
But it's ok to me. In the end, there's no much to do besides correcting people. It's not worth to be upset with this behaviour. People will always generalize and will always state things about places they don't even know with total confidence.
And when you finally launch it, if you're lucky, you'll be more busy, but probably you'll also have more money, which will allow you to hire someone to help you. So you'll won't code so much as before, but if you want, you'll still have some time to do it.
The main argument against the article are the fact there's companies managed by developers who still code doing a good service to their customers: Instapaper (as far I know, Marco Arment is the only developer), 37signals (they have a lot of developers, but Jason Fried still codes), RubyMotion, among others.
Maybe this is not the easiest way, but it's definitely possible.
In a side project with so few hours per week, I think anything more complex than this is overkill.
I believe anyone can learn anything, regardless the age.
And I agree with the author, know how to program is a useful knowledge in a world where computers are everywhere. And it also helps to improve the logical thinking. But I'm not among those who think that everybody must to learn programming.
To accept the obvious truth is really liberating. It takes away all bad feelings you had for people involved on situations where you've felt the victim. And it also makes you see that if you're responsible for your mistakes, you're also responsible for your success. There's no luck, it's your responsability to make things right.
That's why I think App.net. is great!
It's hard to have a consumer product with subscriptions as business model, but I think worth the try. This way you treat the people who make you pay the bills with the respect they deserve.
But it's kind of sad that almost nobody is trying to be profitable providing convenience and a smooth experience to their users.
Although I like rounded corners and gradients, it's good to provide options for those who don't think the same.
But generally speaking, I would pay $50 for a high quality entertainment service, or for something that highly improves my productivity at work.
If something provide me a big stream of fun or money, it will have $50 from me, or even more.