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How to Improve on Naming Contexts in Domain-Driven Design(userinterfacing.com)
6 points by acconrad 8y ago|1 comments
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by acconrad 8y ago
On a side note, I took the 20-30 min front-end exam that is referenced in the article and a few things bug me (in case anyone from TripleByte is reading): 1. I did "exceptionally well" but I don't know how many I got right or
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by acconrad 8y ago
You're asking the wrong question. The how is easy: build a blog (trivial) and write down the things you've learned. Maybe add some pictures, diagrams, or code. You really are wondering why you should blog. There's nothing w
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by acconrad 8y ago
The hardest thing is just finding routine. Freedom via constraints is a great thing. Once I started to plan out my entire day (and then week), my productivity skyrocketed.
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by acconrad 8y ago
Author here - happy to answer any questions people have. This has been a life-saver of a script for folks who run blogs or other image-heavy pages.
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by acconrad 8y ago
What are the benefits of going it on your own as a bare-metal solution as opposed to just going with something like Heroku? I never really know when you're supposed to decide that you should bring devops in house instead of doing thing
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by acconrad 8y ago
Depends on how far along the company is in. If it was no code and just 3 people agreeing - you should have gotten 33% and whatever salary you're okay with. If it's pretty far along that's a bad deal.
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by acconrad 8y ago
Thank you - fixed! You can no longer access that link from the site, it should now just go to the about page
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by acconrad 8y ago
I took on part time gigs to build my portfolio while I was working full time. Then one day a client wanted a 1 year full time contract (turned out to only be 6 months) and that was my stepping off point!
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by acconrad 8y ago
As a competitive powerlifter and bodybuilder I completely agree with this article. The average reader of BBC does not need nearly the protein requirements of an athlete, and the daily minimums are very easy to get with a plant-based diet. E
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by acconrad 8y ago
Either charge a fraction of your weekly price, position yourself as part-time, or prove you can hustle. If you can get 5 days worth of what they think of a week's worth of work in 3 days, you've arbitraged the effort
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by acconrad 8y ago
Would love to connect and learn more about your experience. My email is in my profile (I dont' see one for you in yours), please reach out. My experience with Upwork is it was a lot of noise and you had to work your way up doing a lot
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by acconrad 8y ago
Full disclosure: you absolutely have had a positive impact on my business. The double your rates thing was the only part that didn't work because I think I started at a pretty decent rate to begin with. I listened and studied your podc
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by acconrad 8y ago
Networking the old fashioned way. Ask my friends who needs help. If they don't need help, ask them if they can think of 3 friends who might. Email/text those 3 people. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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by acconrad 8y ago
* Study everything that bdunn and patio11 have to say on here. They get it. * Read Million Dollar Consulting . There's a whole blueprint in there to turn yourself from an everyday freelancer to a pro consultant mindset. * SimpleProgra
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by acconrad 8y ago
> You also built one of my favorite unique sites (share latex). Credit where credit is due: Henry and James built ShareLatex. I simply re-skinned it. They are the real heroes. > how did you manage 5 prospects per day? That seems li
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by acconrad 8y ago
Start by asking if your friends need work (email, text, phone call). If they don't, ask them if they know anyone that does. Wash, rinse, repeat. That landed me in a few VC offices, which landed me meetings with startups and some other
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by acconrad 8y ago
With each new engagement, my rates went up by, on average, 19%. Thanks!
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by acconrad 8y ago
The UI is pretty, but that's about it. How about you just talk to a developer like a regular person? Don't understand what an API is? Just ask them. Great folks love explaining things to others, and if you're not a developer
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by acconrad 8y ago
8 months into my first year of freelancing in the UI space: * Closing in on $250k revenue * 2 major clients, 4 smaller, short-term engagements * 100% utilization rate (no downtime between clients) * Successfully raised rates with all client
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by acconrad 8y ago
> it's harder to get traffic Import your content into Medium (aka "republishing") and you can keep your new blog and still get the popularity boost from your existing Medium blog: https://ryanbattles.com/po
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by acconrad 8y ago
Why did you stop?
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by acconrad 8y ago
I immediately stopped reading when I saw: > Most web pages use HTML4, XHTML 1.0 or HTML5 HTML4?? XHTML? Me thinks whomever wrote this has not been a full-stack developer for a while. The easiest way to be "full-stack" is to t
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by acconrad 8y ago
But can't you choose the compression algorithm in those tools? I know you can in ImageOptim and JpegMini...
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What’s Your Open Source Strategy?(medium.com)
2 points by acconrad 8y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 8y ago
Agreed, it wasn't meant to be a comprehensive guide to speed, just tackling the quickest one. You can run these compressors in a matter of minutes whereas CDNs can take a few hours to implement, and generally can't be run by every
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by acconrad 8y ago
How are you getting around those issues? Very interesting! I only saw issues w stripping metadata on JPEGs (same issues you saw).
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by acconrad 8y ago
How did this get so many upvotes? * Doesn't actually explain why speed matters (hint: over 3 seconds people perceive a slow experience and over 10 seconds people will assume the site is broken) * Doesn't say how to fix speed issue
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by acconrad 8y ago
Link to the article, for those interested: https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00386.2014
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Here Is the Full List of My 50+ Remote Job Sites(userinterfacing.com)
1 points by acconrad 8y ago|0 comments

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