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I hear people talking that it takes more than great programming skills for an engineer to be successful (particularly at fast moving tech companies). As an engineer, I have learned certain mindsets that have helped me…

When working on hard problems, which might encompass unknown number of sub-problems, I often find myself procrastinating. Harder the problem, severer the procrastination. A psychology professor says that a person…

In the "Who is hiring" thread, majority of the jobs are US specific. Even if you go through the long painful process of application, you get a rejection email because you don't have a US work visa. I'm wondering if HN…

Hi, Job hunting is isn't easy for most of us. There are several tools available which can be used for the purpose, but some might be more effective than others. It's worth finding out what has worked for others before…

I was always lucky in getting very reasonable people as my managers/clients until my company found this new project from a Bay Area startup. The client has following characteristics: 1. We have standup meetings…

Hi, I'm a software engineer (focused on fronted) from Islamabad and visiting Bay Area 17th of this month. Along with my colleague Haris (who is focused on data-backend), we had been part of a Santa Clara based…

Do you agree that a lot of manufacturing businesses don't exploit internet for promotion? How would you advise a foreign manufacturer/supplier to promote themself on internet so they noticed and make business…

Hi all, There are many aspects of organizing a successful networking event, but I'm curious about one very specific aspect: How do we make sure that people make new acquaintances at a networking event you've organized?…

Hi, We are a team of 3 developers who are working on a part time project (our own product idea), which started as a very simple weekend project, but over the time has grown into a mammoth, which is getting hard to tame.…

Given the fact that Aspies have hard time socializing, is it even possible for them to run their own startups? Have you ever seen any Aspie run a successful business? If yes, what were the major challenges and how did…

Hi folks, I, along with a few friends, have created a small app "Contacts to Excel & Email" which exports your contacts straight to your inbox with only one tap of a button. We wanted to make something so simple that…

I'm a fan of George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and among many things, I like his creativity with names. I was wondering if I can use a name from his series for my company. Perhaps I should ask this question…

A friend of mine spent a lot of energy to create this beautiful cricket iPhone app, but now we are wondering about possibilities to promote it. Since there are very few nations who follow cricket, it seems hard to find…

Some of my mobile developer friends make handsome additional money with their smart phone apps which they develop in their part time. Although I can develop smart phone apps, but I am far more comfortable in web…

I confess my mistake, I should have had a written contract signed by both parties before the training had begun. It was a basic JEE training with Spring+Hibernate stack and I created a short course outline which I…