I was trying to work with a local firm up here in the PNW but they have little experience in this area.
I now have an appointment for a consult with that firm you linked. You rock.
I am on an installment plan. Have been paying this down for a bit now, but it is becoming an increasingly difficult financial burden to bear.
I have hired the one guy who said he might be able to do something to help for $295 for him to do some "research." I'm probably just screwed.
Hi,tldr; got in early at a startup. exercised stock for ~$6k. got valued at ~$90k+, received a 1099 for that. company subsequently declined in value, now the stock might never be worth anything, but I owe $30k in taxes.I was a very early contract hire at a startup right around pre-covid. Rode the unicorn wave to a $1b+ valuation. Good ARR. Everything going well. I exercised some stock options...
Hello HN. I’ve been out of the solo indie hacking game for over ten years. I always wanted to branch out from building CRUD APIs and web apps into game development. But I always found the learning curve difficult.I saw a post about the guy who made the “1 million checkboxes” page and how a group of random users was sending him binary-encoded messages by checking various combinations of...
I've been looking for a new contract/client for the past three months, to no avail. The market seems to have really dried up compared to the last several years.I'd love to co-found a startup, but have had trouble in the past finding a co-founder. I don't have any previous co-workers who want to start one right now, so I'm looking for other options (i.e. a website / etc).I'm also open to...
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AWS, HTML/CSS, PostgreSQL, etc
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantibraford/
Email: shantibraford [at] gmail.com
Hours: 15-25 per week (flexible schedule)
Backend Ruby on Rails developer and "Virtual CTO" of sorts for early-stage startups. I can do it all from backend Ruby on Rails apps/APIs, frontend UI (though limited SPA experience), deployment / devOps, etc. At my last engagement, I was the 5th hire. I played a pivotal role in growing that healthcare startup to a $1.2 billion valuation in ~2 years. Looking for a small team of either just founders or 3-5 employees, where I can have a major impact in the development and growth of the company.
Also wouldn't be surprised if someone just needed it to buy ramen noodles or hosting for a few months.
More than 1.3 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day. Sure most of them will not have computers/Internet access. But $200 USD could mean a lot to some poor community college kid in India, for example.
Or even a struggling, aspiring (or down on their luck) coder in America who doesn't have a cushy software gig.
I'll just leave this here for more visibility.
I've always been passionate about startups and working with founders. Wanting to get involved but not having "Angel VC" type of money has been my issue lately, so, I decided to start The Shanti Fund.
I know $200 isn't much (to you and I). But it IS to some people. They may be down on their luck, or they may just live in a part of the world where $200 goes a long way.
I know some might criticize my efforts here, so I'm 100% open to feedback. Please tell mw how I can improve The Shanti Fund. Thanks.
I'm looking for a designer who can collaborate on jobs with me.
Hello,I'm looking for a web designer or two who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty in rails-land. Familiarity with git is also a plus.Does anyone know the best place to find someone like this?Upwork? If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment. Thanks!ps. not looking for an agency and US-based is a plus due to time zone reasons.
Finally, we noticed the user's system time was set to several weeks in the future. "Oh yeah, that?" He showed us how he uses the system calendar to check dates in the future. When he was done, he'd click the "Ok" button, thereby setting the current date in Windows to some future day.
Lesson learned.
I could see something like Pinry being useful for creating communities that respect freedom of speech / information / image posting, so long as the content is not illegal.
In case you have no idea what you're doing when it comes to security, and would like to learn a few basics, using Stripe's Capture the Flag game as a fun playground.
First: If you use a Master Lock (heh or an old pen-hackable Kryptonite lock) on your Bank Vault, obviously you are at fault. Doesn't matter what kind of world you want to live in, you need to secure your wares adequately.
Second: It's a dick move of these guys to release all this info. They are hacktivists, or so they claim. (If they wanted to profit off this they'd sell the hacked db to Russians and not release the data) People like MLK and Gandhi also pissed off a lot of people. For example by sitting at white lunch counters, getting spit on, etc. Sorry, that's the idea behind civil disobedience / hacktivism / etc.
Third: this has been stated before, but how do you not know that this database wasn't already cracked 2 years ago by malevolent forces who've been using it for evil, but not telling you about it?
I think it's safe to say Statfor probably wasn't using a Master Lock, but clearly they didn't do enough pen testing or whatever it would've taken for them to more securely lock down their shit.
(Thought experiment: if a YC company got owned, do you think pg would blame the thieves, for their smash & grab kind of job? Or the coders who left a gaping security hole / social engineering attack vector open?)
To some people, whenever anyone is making a profit, however small ... some people believe that someone, somewhere, has to be getting the raw end of the deal.
Note: I'm not saying putting Amazon links on your blog means you can be still be 100% objective (you can't), but rather pointing out a deep-seated belief that I have noticed among some, especially those who've found a way to make a living on GPL'd code, for example, and think iPads should be free.
I think this guy could be on his way to the Fortune 400!
Coming back to ruby development after several years off. I'd be open to other frameworks, but don't feel like learning a new language at the moment.
It would be a Firefox/Chrome/etc plugin. On any webpage on the internet, it would allow you to click a button in the browser and "mark up" the page a la "Skitch."e.g. recently I was on a page with un-hotlinked images and I just wanted to yell at the designers "WHY U NO hot-link images???"
I understand he nearly lost "everything," but boy would I love to lose everything and be down to "just" $10 mil.
I know this is not the typical direction for YC startups. You'd normally want to build an app or service that could eventually generate tens of millions of dollars. But what if you could be satisfied with just one million?i.e. would it be a new SaaS website, an iPhone app, an Android app, a multiplayer game, or what.The more details the better, but if you have an idea that you'd like to keep on...
It just seemed to me like you were bragging that tests get run over and over again. They only need to get run if any new code is committed, of course.
And what kind of commit is being checked in every 9 minutes? How big is the dev team? Seems like an awful lot of commits. Is each one a full-fledged feature / bug fix for the site, or are many 1-line changes to the code?
I've never worked in a team big enough that it could devote resources to maintaining all of the following kinds of tests: * unit * functional * AND acceptance * plus writing the actual code
IMHO, a neutral third-party group like QA should be responsible for writing & maintaining acceptance tests.