_hcuq

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   by _hcuq 5y ago

   10 hours of meetings a week for a dev????
2. 212.▲
   by _hcuq 5y ago

   “Haskell people skew smarter”. Well that’s me out. I’ll stick to JavaScript and C#.
3. 213.▲
   by _hcuq 5y ago

   I survive just fine without Facebook too.
4. 214.▲
   by _hcuq 5y ago

   As is trolling.
5. 215.▲
   by _hcuq 5y ago

   New moon not totally necessary. Look at moon rise and set times.
6. 216.▲
   by _hcuq 5y ago

   As a 55 yr old with 3 dependents, the insurance is $25,000 per year. That’s quite a hill to climb before I see a penny of income into my pocket.
7. 217.▲
   by _hcuq 5y ago

   Is this your experience?
8. 218.▲
   by _hcuq 5y ago

   I find it hard to believe that Slack etc would increase my productivity.
9. 219.▲
   by _hcuq 5y ago

   They outrank the original content because google is corrupt.
10. 220.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Time for Noogle - a brand new search engine. Some money to be made there…
11. 221.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism
12. 222.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Yep. I used to work in lab automation. We found that using Cartesian systems and rethinking the processes could yield order of magnitude improvements. An Arm just replaces one operator.
13. 223.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    It will become clear that extremists have taken over the Republican Party. The November elections will show this.
14. 224.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Connect to real world devices. LEDs, motors, switches, sensors.
15. 225.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    It’s a trade off between speed of development and performance. Speed of development seems like a good optimization for an experimental project?
16. 226.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Really? We don’t need this. I come to Hacker News to avoid the culture wars.
17. 227.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Good question! I would just quote a fixed price to each prospect. Then they may come back with an hourly rate proposal…. But of course any company that sees your work as a part of their intellectual property will not be interested. So I cou
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    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Yes, I have had a bit of entrepreneurial success. I started off contracting, but looked at the needs of my contracting customers and also their customers. After a while there were too many decent ideas to execute. I could choose the ones th
19. 229.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Charge them for laptop rental. As another poster said. If you have other clients you are betraying their trust by installing the spyware.
20. 230.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    If you are starting with a new product, micro services are are a premature optimization. They have their place later.
21. 231.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Yep. Good answer. Get an easy job. Maybe at a non tech company like Walmart or whatever. Work 9-5. Figure out how to maximize your salary within the corporate structure.Do a side hustle if you want. I am 56 and I have been doing this for 1
22. 232.▲
    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Time to move hosting back in house.
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    by _hcuq 5y ago

    Nope. If your boss plays golf you play golf. If your bosses boss goes to church you go to the same church even if you are an atheist. If the higher ups stay late you stay later. If the higher ups get in early you get in earlier. You’ll shoo