DarrenDev

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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Where are you based? Jobs advertised as remote are often not globally remote - as in, there's an expectation that the person they hire will be in the same country. If you're applying for US jobs from a developing country you'
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Thanks for that. The developer account I wasn't aware I needed.
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Thanks
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Perfect - thanks.
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Great - thanks very much.
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Ask HN: As a Windows developer and user, can anyone recommend a Mac for testing?
15 points by DarrenDev 4y ago|51 comments
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
“Due to a major incident with a network provider, our cloud-based systems enabling check-in, boarding and our website are currently unavailable,” a spokesman said on Saturday afternoon.
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Aer Lingus cancels all flights from Dublin to Europe after IT systems crash(irishtimes.com)
8 points by DarrenDev 4y ago|3 comments
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Electron.net gives you just that. All the backend logic is in C#. It's not the most well maintained project, but once you have it up and running for a new project it's stable.
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
No. I work as a contractor where gaps are common. Also, two month gaps can be invisible or near invisible. You end one job at the start of June and start the next at the end of July. That's a two month gap that doesn't translate t
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I quit one job about three months in. It was out of sheer boredom. The job was remote and the work expectations were so low that it was possible to deliver by working only an hour a day. There was nothing challenging to do -- just everyday
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I am. The core app is a desktop Electron app with a .Net 6 backend. There's some communication with a web api, also written in .Net 6 and hosted on Azure, but the desktop app is the heart of the product. Even though it's a cross p
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
A 50 year old barista struggling to be a writer.
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Boredom. It's always boredom. Every time.
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Editing add in for Word for creative writers. https://www.smart-edit.com/Home/Buy/ It sells around 20+ copies a month, usually to published or self-published authors of fiction. It's been selling at that leve
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I’d say it depends what you mean by anonymous. If you mean you don’t want every mention of your software to be “John Smith’s app” then just start a company. That would make it “Company X’s app.” No one would care much about who owns Company
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
>Oddly, I had never heard of Patterson. How is that possible given his apparent cultural dominance? If he writes in a genre you don't read, then it's not that surprising. Most men have never heard of Nora Roberts, who comes clo
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
About €200 for a Motorola: https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-moto-g-family# I bought it for its insane battery life. 3-4 days at full use. I got so pissed off with my expensive Samsung running out of juice in the
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
You could respond from goodmartian.com. Available.
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Or, pick two words that are not connected in any way. If you Google them as a phrase search you get nothing or close to nothing back: "word1 word2". Examples from 2 minutes on Godaddy: martianpenguins.com sallylabs.com mountainmon
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
We did something similar a couple of times, but ended up selling it all and giving away what was left on a local Facebook group. The sales all went to expats or travellers with the same problem we had; the giveaways went to locals. (We didn
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
It sounds and looks ideal but it can get costly if you want to do anything non-standard. And by non-standard I mean something as simple as adding a ConvertKit newsletter signup form to your blog, at which point you need a business package t
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Renting a monitor, keyboard and office chair and desk when I go to the sun for a few months in the winter. I've had this issue 4 times in the past 3 years, in Southern Spain and in the Canary islands. No one rents office gear to remote
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I don't like the term. It conjures up images of someone sitting on a beach in Thailand, creating courses and books on how to sit on a beach in Thailand while create courses and books on how to... You know, selling "how to be free
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
He's right about the auto rejection. I have a degree in History which I never bother putting on my CV, but I have 20 years as a developer. My CV doesn't get auto rejected.
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Small software company in the UK. I was interviewing for a junior programmer position (no devs back then). There was a short technical test first - done in the company's office rather than at home. A small project set up that accepted
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Not doing this myself, but I've worked a couple of contracts over the past few years where the workload and expected outputs were so small that they could easily have been handled as a second job alongside a more regular job with regul
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Take a look at The Thought Leaders Practice. It might not be quite what you're looking for, but it's a bit of an eye opener. https://www.amazon.com/Thought-Leaders-Practice-work-people-...
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
How many companies have you worked for in your career? How many different places have you lived? Different experiences? I've found that ideas for new apps or products come from my previous jobs and from things that I see as 'missi
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I think the YC mantra applies, even to code: "Build something people want" If your personal work isn't something that anyone is interested in, if it isn't something they want or can at least envisage someone wanting, the

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