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by abulman 11y ago
I've found out the rate that at least a couple of the clients would pay to get my time, and I find it expensive. I don't find it surprising that one person I talked to, said that they have specifically requested that no one base
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by abulman 11y ago
That's the background on a couple of tweets I've already sent today - part of a 56! post sequence (3/4 done, I'm splitting it up a bit). https://twitter.com/alister_b/status/636563590288437248
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by abulman 11y ago
I'm in Toptal, with a rate that has been steadily dropping and is now listed at $60/h gross. That's not including their markup for the price-to-pay by the clients, and on my side, there are also currency conversion, transfer
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by abulman 11y ago
My profile just opened up on there today. A very friendly 'talent co-ordinator'. It wasn't until I specifically disavowed (as the first line of my own profile text) the headline that someone at Hired had written about me, and
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by abulman 11y ago
For my very first role, the client didn't pay. They paid me the full rate - but then told me that was an error on their part. So now I owe them $1500. If I do ever get a new gig, they will likely take that off the top before I see it.
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by abulman 11y ago
Yes, you set your own rate - but if you live in a larger western Europe/North America city, you will never be able to receive anything approaching the normal daily rate or salary that you could find locally. For the (automated) tests -
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by abulman 11y ago
I'd be inclined to say abc20xyz
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by abulman 11y ago
I can also recommend the rest of the Numberphile videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A - as well as the other channels by the same person.
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by abulman 11y ago
Whenever a download link (and more often than not, for me, it's usually for a server-based tool) goes to Sourceforge, I cringe - more than a little. For Linux based tools, its because a simple 'wget' for a file is going to en
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Not Having Your Developers Quit on You - as a Service(alister.github.com)
2 points by abulman 14y ago|0 comments
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by abulman 14y ago
That's a really good idea. So I made this: http://jobstxt.org/ and http://jobstxt.org/jobs.txt
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by abulman 14y ago
I've occasionally taken to send out a 'nano' CV - with my contact details, a paragraph of text and 3 URLs. My Stackoverflow account, Github, and my tech blog. I've also been responsible for hiring developers over the last five years and if