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Ask HN: I just struck out on my own as a consultant. What do I need to know?
12 points by acconrad 9y ago|6 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
An impressive and thoughtful response, thank you Dennis for taking the time to inform me!
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by acconrad 9y ago
The fourth reason is that some things can't be measured? That seems suspect. I can think of two seemingly obvious inferences from this study that were not mentioned. 1. Digital devices offer more distractions because unlike a book, you
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by acconrad 9y ago
The irony is that to truly be able to not think about money, you have to have enough of it for your expenses to be paid on autopilot. To have that, you essentially need to have enough to retire on, which requires a lot of money, which requi
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by acconrad 9y ago
How did you get into contract ethereum development? What does that require in terms of skill set (C/C++)? Where are you finding these jobs that claim high demand? I'm thinking about breaking into contract development and working o
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by acconrad 9y ago
I feel like we totally could, and because of politics and lifestyle inflation, we don't. Take for example, doctors. We don't have enough doctors, they're overworked, and to incentivize that system, we pay them quite a bit (at
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by acconrad 9y ago
> "If it sounds good on NS10s then it'll sound good on anything." Spot on. I dabble in electronic music production and this is precisely why it's such a "good" speaker, because you want your music to sound
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by acconrad 9y ago
Neat post but would have loved to have seen a side-by-side comparing the suboptimal code with the optimal code.
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Lifelong Rubyist makes some Python code 5x Faster(schneems.com)
3 points by acconrad 9y ago|1 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
Even though I'm still climbing the roller coaster at 31, I still felt the urge to move into engineering management because: (A) it appears the salaries aren't capped the same way as being an IC and (B) a bit more future-proof than
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The College Try(story.californiasunday.com)
1 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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The Reverse Solipsist(philosophynow.org)
1 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
TLDR: Assume someone comes in with no prior knowledge and give them the benefit of the doubt. I will add that at some point that if this does not translate into productive business value after a reasonable (1-3 months) onboarding time, the
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by acconrad 9y ago
Because some people want to transition? One of the things Google expouses is to have managers who code because it builds empathy. I'm a manager and I still code daily, and I think I'm a better manager for it.
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by acconrad 9y ago
Can someone explain the mechanics of things like how caffeine naps work? I never understand how people are supposed to implement these things, it always seems like they just assume you will fall asleep instantly. For example, they say you s
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by acconrad 9y ago
My god that is the longest product advertising page I have ever seen, and that includes those long form ads selling those gimmicky products.
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by acconrad 9y ago
Oh cool Boston is making it pretty far (I live and grew up here) > … and workers can easily get around — and out of town … Haha yup and that's when it drops off- WAIT WHAT??
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What is the shape of space?(aeon.co)
6 points by acconrad 9y ago|4 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15124906
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by acconrad 9y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15124906
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by acconrad 9y ago
SEEKING WORK (parttime) - Boston - Remote OK Full-stack Developer / designer / product / UX with 9 years production experience. My favorite stacks are Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, and Python/Flask on the backend
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by acconrad 9y ago
Web development (HTML, CSS, JS, Back-end (Ruby, Python and Elixir)) | Boston | Adam | acconrad [at] protonmail [dot] com I'm an engineering manager by trade and my portfolio can be found here: https://www.adamconrad.me Ment
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by acconrad 9y ago
Previous discussion (I already linked to the study): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15124906
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by acconrad 9y ago
Meditation. It is the practice of being present in the moment and being aware of your actions. That directly translates into "catching yourself" by requiring you think about everything you do before you do it and be aware of what
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Parasites inside your body could be protecting you from disease(theconversation.com)
1 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
Not exactly. Protein has a higher thermic effect in that it requires more energy from the body to break it down into amino acids. So say you fill both your glycogen and your amino acid requirements, given just proteins and carbs, while both
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by acconrad 9y ago
Here's a link to the study (which, by the way, was unnecessarily difficult to find): http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... What a sensationalist and wrong headline. All it say
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Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target Signal and WhatsApp(arstechnica.com)
110 points by acconrad 9y ago|67 comments
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> People who are succesful did 99 mediocre side projects before they hit the jackpot. This x100000. This is fundamentally it; just like how we love to talk about 10,000 hours and targeted practice, so too can we extend this concept to
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by acconrad 9y ago
How realistic is this though? Imagine you come out of college and work for the Big 4 making $100k. Assuming you make 10% more (compounding) every 2 years, by 38-36 you would make over $200k, by 50 you are making close to $500k. You hit that

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