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For our team at least, our vagrant box is an exact version mirror (Redis, MySQL, PHP, nginx, git...) and paths of our production servers.

We have our DevOps maintain the box so the rest of the team doesn't have to worry about it. Changes to something, tell every one to pull from git, run vagrant provision and it works.

Saves us a lot of headache in "deploying" new development environments to our team.

BaubleBar (New York, NY) http://www.baublebar.com

We're a small team of engineers building an awesome ecommerce platform for a ridiculously fast growing, VC-backed startup. Your work will be used by millions of users. If any of this gets you excited, we should talk.

We're looking for really great Full-Stack PHP engineers that like to get shit done.

More info http://www.baublebar.com/careers

Feel free to email me directly: tyler@baublebar.com

Hi! I'm the Director of Engineering at BaubleBar, currently looking to hire at least 2 PHP Developer positions positions here at our office near the Flatiron building in New York.

BaubleBar is seeking engineers to help build the next generation of our ecommerce platform that is scalable and fast. This is a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact at a fast-growing, VC-backed start-up. Your work will be used by millions of users. If any of this gets you excited, we should talk.

YOU...

Have 3+ years of real-world experience as software engineer working with web technologies. You have worked on teams of engineers and have experience leading and implementing web-based solutions. Consider yourself an expert at PHP web development, but are eager to work in new languages and development stacks. You’ve mastered various PHP web frameworks such as Symfony and Zend. Can complement your ninja-like PHP skills with a working knowledge of CSS and JavaScript. Bonus points: prior experience with Magento or e-commerce.

More info http://www.baublebar.com/careers

Feel free to email me directly: tyler@baublebar.com

I have never felt like I had a dire need to do either of those things but couldn't.

For me, things that would fit better in that category are when my wife bugs me that we should do an exercise class tonight, and I don't want to be bothered to search through the 5 yoga studios or spin classes near my house to find an open class.

My $0.02

I promise we aren't trying to be scammy. But I definitely appreciate the cynicism.

I have little interest in collecting or doing anything with alumni email addresses.

We are trying to validate that there is any demand for a directory like this for our pitch to Alumni Offices.

Any responses we would get would be, by definition, a subset of the alumni office list. We want to build a platform for alumni offices to showcase accomplishments to their communities.

Presumably there would be a correlation between alumni pride and fundraising, but we don't want that to be shoved down peoples throats.

It's difficult to learn and practice biblical hebrew without a rabbi or mentor. http://www.hebrewgenius.com/

Exactly! The point of conflict for me is how to equate that. It would be hard for me to have to pay $300 cash to have a great night relaxing with my wife (and someday, hopefully kids) but if I can get that much for my time, that's what its costing me to do so.

When freelancing at an hourly rate, I often use that same calculation for everything that I do. That $15 cab ride will save me 20 minutes on the subway, maybe I can figure out a way to work more efficiently and bill that time?

I no longer find the mentality of wanting to make that calculation productive. Treating my time like such a scarce resource makes it hard for me to "waste" my leisure time. My rational self questions why I choose to "lose" 6 hours rock climbing, when it's something I completely love, but had to trade off many other things I could have done.

Similarly, it's a huge reward for me if I can get hired for 40 hours of Android development project that's going to "cost" me an additional 10 hours of un-billable time to be "forced" to learn something that I've wanted to, even if I'm "losing" more than it would have cost me to pay for some Android dev workshop.

I'm in my early 30s and personal time seems to have shrunk. I now cherish grabbing a beer for 45 mins after work with my childhood best friend, because he has kids. When ten years ago we would have thought nothing about wasting hours.

My point is that when I was eager for it, dollars were a great metric for my hourly value. Now, personal enjoyment, or feeling like I'm doing something valuable with that time has a much greater importance.

That's my $0.02.

No problem. Lean Startup (http://theleanstartup.com/principles) and Noah Kagan both have some great guides about methods to potentially validate your idea or find potential customers.

Programmers perform the same type of risk assessment that you would do managing a portfolio. A coder is exchanging their time in exchange for your money or equity. Without a doubt, there is a challenge in finding someone with the right combination of experience, availability and interest in your project. If you are trying to attract coders, try to appeal to them my minimizing their risk. An experienced coder but first time entrepreneur will be more likely to join you if you can demonstrate a history of successes, experience executing / bringing products to market, or validation that there is a market for your product.

BaubleBar - Flatiron, NYC (Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer - PHP, Python, Magento)

http://www.baublebar.com/our-company/careers

BaubleBar is seeking engineers to help build the next generation of our ecommerce platform that is scalable and fast. This is a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact at a fast-growing, VC-backed start-up. Your work will be used by millions of users. You’ll report directly into the VP of Engineering and work in our swanky new office located in Manhattan.

BaubleBar is building a unique retail destination for fashion jewelry by addressing the unmet needs of both consumers and designers.

We're a team of 4 amazing web folks right now. Business is growing and we're looking for talented engineers to join us.

Feel free to email me with any questions or to apply: tyler@baublebar.com

Thanks!

I've actually done a similar thing using fiverr.com

Great find. I had a similar issue with a dumb app I built a long time ago that was more of a learning experiment / sick joke than anything real.

It was called Rubbed Out and the point was to list all of your friends you had thought about while masterbating.

With bad permissions, or a small sample size, it gets really scary.

I have suffered from severe depression since I was young. I (think) I'm pretty smart, but have definitely held myself back from achieving things that I could have because of it.

I have found this to be nearly crippling when accompanied with the rejection and difficulty of being an entrepreneur. Professionally, I have done a lot of freelance work as a result.

I've held pretty good jobs for ~ 1 year, but eventually have some problem due to workload stress combined with my depression. Regrettably this has made me leave jobs in non-ideal ways.

I'm looking for my next great position now, and it's tough to answer the "why did you leave this position and then go freelance last year" with "I let my depression get ahead of me and tried to kill myself."

I know that it's an incredible liability to a potential employer to hire someone that might do great work for a year and then abruptly leave.

I just needed to get that off my chest.

I attended a talk at SXSW a few years ago, mostly about the Millennial generation and their desire to work with you, not for you.

I'm no longer young, but I've bounced around to quite a few jobs because I've always run into a wall in terms of growth, personal growth within the organization, or professional growth - not expanding my skill set fast enough while limited to one employer.

As the founder of a company, you have a lot more control in pushing the envelope in lots of different ways, but I think the challenge is being able to create that for yourself vs. creating it for those that work for/ with you.

dhh can create 37racing, work from wherever he wants, push the envelope on technology as much as he desires, but I believe the challenge is giving the same to your employees, not just through profit sharing, but sharing the ways your company can grow.

I had the same (great) idea, but your site doesn't do what I thought it would. Instead of being able to download all of my large size images, I now have a publicly viewable listing of thumbnails of all of my photos that are now mirrored on your amazon account. There are no privacy settings, or ability to delete them from your server.

I think you should be clearer about the ability to delete them from your server.

Awesome, haven't tried it yet. I'll check it out.

It's been very tough. Unfortunately I have found that the most lucrative projects tend to be those that require lots of ongoing maintenance, or people graduating from a crappy MVP into something that needs richer features.

As an american looking for freelance work, I find it hard to find a place to get clients that are willing to pay reasonable rates for skilled talent.

On the other hand, whenever I try to hire, my compromises are usually poor communication skills or sub-par code.

As a graduate of (rival) Middlebury College, I am both impressed an un-surprised. Great visualization, but I'm not too surprised by the results. Accompanying percentages might make the results easier to digest.

I would be interested to see similar correlations for more specialized schools (Caltech / MIT for instance) as a contrast to liberal arts education.

Great article. After having lived most of my life in urban areas, I married a great woman who has a very rural job and we live in an incredibly small town. I'm an introvert and solo entrepreneur, but had found that I thrived via in-person collaboration at a co-working space or via meetups.

What I've been struck by is the difficulty in shifting. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places online, but I've found it difficult to make new friends on the internet, or get the same sense of camaraderie as in-person contact.

Anyone have any advice on how to break the ice and make "internet friends" ?

First episode is his summary of a Freelancer vs. Entrepreneur. The distinction being working for yourself vs. building something bigger than yourself.

We've never finished getting the multi-user one production-ready. We've been using a really simple version to hire out our consulting services to clients for a year or so. It's just a simple checkout with different day rates for different services (consulting, designing, code)

I like this idea and came at it from a different approach. I've hired odeskers before with mixes successes.

We were hiring some day laborers locally to help us load and unload a truck, went to a place, hired two guys for a daily rate, and at the end of the day that was it.

As a dev, I'd love to hire someone to consult with me for a day to walk through my app with me and help improve it.

I wonder if ramp up time takes too much, or if it needs to be limited to consulting only, rather than actual writing the code / designing psds work.

It's interesting that the courses are on-site in contrast to 37S pro-remote working stance.

I definitely agree with the point their are limitations to learning on your own. (books vs. instructor)

But I'm a 100% remote worker and wonder how much better I could be learning from / with my colleagues in person vs. online chat.

I know that being in a real-life tech community is a huge asset over not, but personally I wonder how much better I could be if I were able to live in The Valley, Chicago, Austin...

Cool, dig the entirely javascript page builder.

Really clever demo of how to html/css3 the hell out of something. Also hilarious to include the blank index.js just for fun. :)

Sounds like ppk just needed to vent, I've done this before on the internet and regretted it. Totally agree that more transparency in the client-vendor relationship would always be helpful, but airing grievances should be saved for Festivus.

Green math always seems to be fuzzy. Nice article.