Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.
Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.
Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
| # xcode-build-bump.sh | |
| # @desc Auto-increment the build number every time the project is run. | |
| # @usage | |
| # 1. Select: your Target in Xcode | |
| # 2. Select: Build Phases Tab | |
| # 3. Select: Add Build Phase -> Add Run Script | |
| # 4. Paste code below in to new "Run Script" section | |
| # 5. Drag the "Run Script" below "Link Binaries With Libraries" | |
| # 6. Insure that your starting build number is set to a whole integer and not a float (e.g. 1, not 1.0) |
| import pandas as pd | |
| import requests | |
| from numpy import * | |
| import matplotlib.pyplot as plt | |
| def get_data(): | |
| has_header = False | |
| with open('nyt.csv', 'wb') as csv: | |
| for n in range(1,31): |
| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| # Import required libraries | |
| import sys | |
| from collections import defaultdict | |
| # Start a counter and store the textfile in memory | |
| impressionSum = 0.0 | |
| ageSum = 0.0 | |
| clickThruSum = 0.0 | |
| oldestAge = 0 |