I view it just like many other educational certificates. It is a positive that you have earned it. What's most important is what have you done with it and what can you do with it.
Bootcamps don't change people, they just provide tools for their students to continue learning.
I'd carefully weigh any advice received with the experience of the source. Not to say that anyone that has not been in a similar situation had no value. But rather people who have had similar experience will be of more value.
That being said these are the considerations that were in my mind when I was in a similar position.
1. Just like an investor or even more so, how much do I believe in the founder.
2. How confident are you in your abilities. Are you able to cope with stress/uncertainty and preserver in the face of daunting tasks.
3. How much do you believe that there is a business somewhere in there?
If you are enthusiastic about all 3 the risk is worth it. Feat and doubt are poor reasons to not do something. Fear is a good sign to pause and evaluate the situation. There is only one way to find out if you have what it takes. Also if you think taking a low income (or no income) is a big issue now. It only gets harder as you get older. Wife, kids, mortgage and general lifestyle inflation.
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Definitely not the best in terms of user experience but it has enough features I didn't know I need, that it keeps me happy.
Things like multiple auto-reminders for late payments and reoccurring invoices saved me alot of time. I didn't need them when I was looking around at invoicing software but now I do.
I'm looking for an Rails generalist to help with ongoing contracts for building upon established Rails applications. General application stack is Rails/Haml/Sass/jQuery/Backbone.js.
I'm a small single man dev shop scaling out my business. Drop me a line if you are interested in possibly working together tony at digitalalch.com.
This is my whole problem with Bitcoin. Too many people see it through an "investment lens". Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency not an investment at it's heart:
"Used as a medium of exchange for goods and services, currency is the basis for trade."
People's perception coupled with the deflationary nature of Bitcoin makes me not want to participate.
I think I phrased myself wrong. For me it is not an investment (as in: Buy now get rich), but more a experiment or plaything. I'm just not sure if I shouldn't wait another month or to for the BTCs to get drop again.
On the other hand, they are just money, so if I have BTC worth 50 USD i should be able to buy stuff worth 50 USD (using more or less BTCs). I just need to wrap my mind around it.
I used to work at Microsoft so i can alpreciate how that shapes the lense of how you view the world.
I think the statement that Rails might of gotten further on the windows platform is a ridiculous statement. Ruby as far back as remember is a language that prefered environment was Linux. There was a point where there was no windows version. I remember when even on OSX the installation of ruby was an endevour. OpenSsl incompatabilities, gems with c extensions that never worked right (rMagick which is a Linux first lib). So the underlying language that backs Rails is not windows friendly. There is no doubt in my mind that Windows would have been a hindrance not a positive.
Macs are only popular because for the most part they are similar enough to Linux that you can develop on a Mac and deploy to Linux. I don't know of one Rails shop that chooses to deploy on Windows.
That's not what I meant, although I see that the "it's Mac first development" thing didn't help. I agree with your point that the BSD heritage of OSX really positioned it well as a *nix dev platform.
I didn't say that Rails would have gotten farther on the Windows platform. That would be silly; you're assuming that because you're assuming I have misshapen lenses and / or am an idiot. I get that some mostly Microsoft devs are sheltered, but some aren't. I've worked with Mac and Unix going back a few decades.
What I said was that the native Windows / Node experience is probably better than the native Windows / Rails experience because the Rails community by and large really isn't all that interested in how it works on Windows (see link).
So tax hike is not a tax hike if you plan it upfront? So if your employer says to you "you're getting a raise of $1000 for this year, but only for one year" it is not the same as getting a raise of $1000 and then getting a pay cut of $1000 next year? And the difference is... what exactly? That it was known upfront? How it makes anything different?
>So if your employer says to you "you're getting a raise of $1000 for this year, but only for one year"
That's called a bonus and there's quite a difference. There's also a difference between a one year contract and getting laid off unexpectedly after one year.
Bonus is one-time and usually contingent, salary raise is increasing each paycheck and unconditional. But you can, of course, have a bonus which is unconditional, in which case it's just a pay raise.
>>>> There's also a difference between a one year contract and getting laid off unexpectedly after one year.
There is, but not in money. You could, for example, look in advance for the next gig if you knew. Since there's no way to prepare in advance for higher taxes that would make any difference (not for salarymen - for investors, they already did - tons of companies paid early dividends in 2012, sometimes borrowing to finance it), so it makes no practical difference at all.
IMHO the better solution would not to store marshalled objects in the session cookie. Especially ones that you don't have direct control over. There can't be any reasonable regression-test or upgrade test that could test for this.
The Rails flash is actually stored as a marshaled object in the cookie, so this broke for everyone who happened to have something stored in the flash at the time of upgrade (which is a lot of people). It should have been caught before but it did get fixed in the latest release.
I think that entrepreneurship shouldn't necessarily be an end, but rather a means to an end. For some it is th end goal but I'd wage that this isn't the norm ( outside hn of course ).
Figure out where you want to be in the long term and find the best way to get there for _you_. Entrepreneurship might just not be th best way to get there. And I think that's alright as long as you get where you wants be.
Bootcamps don't change people, they just provide tools for their students to continue learning.