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by acconrad 10y ago
Exactly this, but hey at least I know what I'm doing and the client is happy!
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by acconrad 10y ago
Double your day job hourly rate. So if you make $100k a year, that's $50/hr, and your freelance rate would be $100/hr. When you factor in benefits (insurance, 401k) and the self-employment tax of 15%, plus the cost of downtim
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by acconrad 10y ago
I did just that same thing for a client. They were using React to make 1 AJAX request to Foursquare. The thousands of lines of code turned into 22 lines of vanilla Javascript. I was shocked.
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by acconrad 10y ago
I'd like to apply ML to healthcare, I think it's the holy grail. However, I feel like you're making it much simpler than it really is. You've got a cadre of PhDs at UCSF, how am I going to compete with your all-star team
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Ask HN: What are good examples of programmer portfolios?
6 points by acconrad 10y ago|2 comments
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by acconrad 10y ago
Margin accounts are so dangerous. Most brokerages make you go through a rigorous process to make sure you're qualified to handle margin trading. The fact that they let average joes do this seems incredibly alarming.
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by acconrad 10y ago
How you can tell someone is lying to you / full of crap rule #10233: They sell you something as a pre-requisite to the thing that needs to be done. These priorities are seriously out of whack. If you simply ate healthy (in a caloric ex
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by acconrad 10y ago
As someone with limited foreign policy knowledge, don't we want a Saudi collapse? Wahhabism was state-sponsored by the Saudis, the underlying extremist religious movement behind Al-Qaeda and ISIS. So it seems to me that the Saudi reg
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by acconrad 10y ago
I actually had an idea around that - neighborhood cooking. There is definitely some widow grandmother on my block who would love to make some extra money cooking her awesome meals for her neighbors. And I'd love to pay for that service
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by acconrad 10y ago
It's an entertaining article, but I feel like a bit of intuition can make the answer obvious: it's hard to sell a home with rooms that are bright, unique colors. Not everyone likes red/green/blue, but everyone can agree
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by acconrad 10y ago
I've constantly racked my brain on the Underserved Communities and Social Services: my dad is a Vietnam vet and my mom (while we were growing up) fit that single mother middle-class type...how does technology help them? Part of the pro
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by acconrad 10y ago
Someone asked this a few months ago and the book that was referred was Concrete Mathematics by Knuth ( https://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Compu... ) which I have since purchased and have enjoyed re-learnin
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by acconrad 10y ago
I have this theory that autonomous vehicles will enable a resurgence of the suburb. If I can disengage from the transporting myself into being transported , I can spend that travel time working instead of navigating. If I lived an hour awa
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by acconrad 10y ago
The problem is Lustig is on the far end of the spectrum on anti-sugar. No added sugars? Sure, I buy that. Labelling fructose as a poison simply because it is directly metabolized in the liver is stretch. I'm not going to worry that my
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by acconrad 10y ago
You're correct, there is no evidence to support boosted immune system (that I am aware of) for shorting fasting periods. However, there are a host of health benefits to fasting in general, which is why I wanted to dismiss the notion th
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by acconrad 10y ago
Unless the act of donating blood releases some endorphins because you're helping someone else, then this is just bloodletting or phlebotomy, which is considered pseudoscience by the medical community. [1] https://books.googl
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by acconrad 10y ago
It's not a fad, there is quite a wealth of research supporting it's efficacy[1][2][3]. That also doesn't mean you need to fast for 3 days straight to consider your fasting intermittent - you can go 16 hours without eating and
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by acconrad 10y ago
This is a terrible, clickbait article and the efficacy of the diet isn't even evaluated by a medical professional, they interviewed the director of a globo gym! TLDR: don't do keto if you are diabetic, for seemingly obvious reason
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by acconrad 10y ago
Or you could be rich and just, you know, camp out like everyone else. I think part of the problem is that they want to "rough it" like the traditional Burning Man culture without actually having to rough it, and keeping people out
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by acconrad 10y ago
I have a thought...it borderlines on conspiracy theory, so I don't take it too seriously...but I think index funds are actually damaging to the economy. It all starts from the premise that if it's too good to be true, it probabl
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by acconrad 10y ago
I mean everything is getting more expensive because wages are not outpacing inflation, all while we're heading towards negative interest rates.
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by acconrad 10y ago
Not that it makes the article less important or relevant, but it came out in 2015 and should be noted in the title.
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by acconrad 10y ago
I'm biased because I'm one of those people who feels like he can't live without going to the gym at least every other day. But there are some things to make it easier, putting on my UX hat: * Put your workout clothes on the f
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by acconrad 10y ago
The article's title says a 3-day week, but the actual study more specifically said a 30-hour week. Or, put it another way, The Guardian can't even summarize it's own articles properly, because there was no recommendation as t
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by acconrad 10y ago
I turned $1000 into $1800 in 15 min on an Apple WWDC options play. Not only did I make $800 I also learned to never mess with options again. I turned $415k into $530k in 2 years from real estate from an insane booming market. Combine that w
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The Lego Movie Is about Public Schooling(fee.org)
1 points by acconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 10y ago
As a DJ, a few requests on an amazing start: - sort by Key - sort by BPM - move the song dragging it (need to line up by the kick) - cue points
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by acconrad 10y ago
I DJ and coach powerlifting on the side, that earns me about $500/mo - not all side hustles are tech-related :)
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by acconrad 10y ago
Ketogenic is too extreme. Doctors and nutritionists will agree on that. I'm an anecdotal example, but for me it caused my resting blood sugar to actually increase. Food quality matters as much as food quantity. Yes you can lose weight
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by acconrad 10y ago
As much as I don't want to excuse or allow obesity, or that the advice in this thread is extremely applicable in reducing the rates of obesity, I will say that fat loss for women is indeed harder. This video[1] explains in greater deta

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