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by acconrad 8y ago
It's painful to see that younger people are worse off - poorer and life expectancy I see is down again. I thought we were trying to give our children a better life? How did we become so narcissistic that we don't even want to ma
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by acconrad 8y ago
Same thing here. Clicked thinking I was going to see how the emulator works. I need an emulator to try for my slackbot, and instead I'm on the landing page for the bot. And now I read in the comments that the slackbot simulator isn&#x2
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by acconrad 8y ago
I just sacrifice sleep. A few months ago I thought it would be a great idea to audit Steven Skiena's algorithms course and see if I could implement it in JavaScript - 2 months later and a lot of sleep lost... https://www.use
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by acconrad 8y ago
I keep a list of 50+ sites that focus on remote-first (or remote-only) jobs: https://userinterfacing.com/here-is-the-full-list-of-my-50-r...
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by acconrad 8y ago
Any tips/sites for biking in certain areas/cities? I just bought a bike to commute in Boston, but part of me is terrified (I got hit by a car in the suburbs a good 10 years ago). For example, my route is from South Boston to Charl
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by acconrad 8y ago
The people who are actually old in these blue zones were around literally before gyms or recreational running became a thing. I'd like to compare that against someone who has been going to the gym their entire life in those blue zones
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by acconrad 8y ago
I asked this a couple of years ago here and I feel like I keep have to asking: is this our industry's way of trying to tell us something about where our jobs are headed? I can't help but get the sense that we're trying to tel
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by acconrad 8y ago
The tangible benefits: 1. Increased vocabulary 2. Practice and improvement of skills I'm specifically reading about (as many of the books I'm reading are for acquiring skills related to my job) 3. Simply reading about new topics e
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by acconrad 8y ago
I started reading things that were related to programming but weren't textbooks (i.e. The Pragmatic Programmer and The Mythical Man-Month ). Then I started reading books on skills I wanted to acquire (i.e. Traction for marketing a
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by acconrad 8y ago
I'm about to turn 33 and only within the last year have I really discovered the joy of reading books. I went from reading maybe 1 or 2 books a year to reading a book a week , and I'm on track to read close to 50 books this year (
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by acconrad 8y ago
I removed all social media and I found that for the development community specifically, the only social apps that really matter are GitHub (if you consider that social) and Twitter. I had no problem as a dev removing Facebook, Instagram, Sn
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by acconrad 8y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Nick Zakas is an acclaimed author in the JavaScript world. He probably makes a decent amount more from speaking and conferences, but it's still surprising to me that in spite of having multi
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by acconrad 8y ago
Agreed, though I'd add the "different routine" is just doing what you already do but: 1. more flexible hours 2. outcomes not tied to income (meaning you no longer worry about what you're paid as the deciding factor in wh
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The pitfalls of early success(rationalwalk.com)
1 points by acconrad 8y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 8y ago
A demonstration of Hooks is live right now at ReactConf and looks very cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz3nVya45uQ (go back about 1.5 hrs into the past to see the start of the demo).
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by acconrad 8y ago
VR does seem like the logical next device frontier for Apple, but Oculus really has a significant early-mover advantage. I don't agree that it's exactly a mistake to have bought Oculus, but I do think we're still 5-10 years o
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by acconrad 8y ago
It sounds like this trend is exactly what Facebook wants. They buy some software (and its people) and mold it to their specifications whether or not it costs that team its most senior management/visionaries. The more interesting thing
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by acconrad 8y ago
I second the Manager Tools podcast, it has been great for getting started with engineering management. Here's what's distilled down from a lot of their intro casts: 1. Have a 1x1 once a week with each direct for 30 min 2. If you c
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Why you should start a newsletter even if you never grow a big audience(medium.com)
2 points by acconrad 8y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 8y ago
Your use of "bully" is a red herring to your argument. Both people break norms, yes. But when you "bully" the fat cats in government, that's called "doing your job." The president is essentially the highes
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by acconrad 8y ago
I'm a technical consultant so the business isn't the same but I do have to do a ton of sales and I've done multiple six-figure deals and generated multiple six figures in revenue per year, so I am able to sell to some regard.
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by acconrad 8y ago
I never feel good enough. Ever. Part of that is my personality - I'm very hard on myself. But especially on HN (for better or worse) it seems like everyday I see someone who is making more money or building a better business or someone
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by acconrad 8y ago
That's like saying I prefer kicking puppies to eating broccoli - it's an absurd comparison. I don't prefer cards and borders anymore than I prefer keeping my job. Show me a fortune 500 website that uses 0 borders, cards, or f
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by acconrad 8y ago
I'm a UX developer who has tried and failed every time to get vertical rhythm working. It doesn't. Vertical rhythm is great in theory. You can even program it in if you use SASS or something like that. The problem is every example
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by acconrad 8y ago
This is super actionable and useful advice. I love it, thank you so much!
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by acconrad 8y ago
I've also done this and can agree with the parent of this comment. The problem here is once they have traction and funding, they likely have a full-time CTO. Fractional CTOs are generally needed at the seed stage when the technical sol
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by acconrad 8y ago
I should have asked what you believe is more . $75-100 is definitely in the "cheap" range, $100-150 I see for senior generalists, and $150-300 I see for the principal/architect/specialist rates. At some point the numb
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by acconrad 8y ago
I was able to stay this route. Started at $4k/week and worked my way up to $6k/week and still rising. If you can manage a project/have technical lead skills/have a hyper specialty (e.g. AR/VR, cryptography/secu
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by acconrad 8y ago
So the breakdown I saw this past year was: * 5% consulting (e.g. reports, audits, et al) * 10% subcontracting to other devs * 85% direct software development The highest margins were certainly on that 15%, but the volume was not nearly high
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by acconrad 8y ago
When I got into consulting I read that MacKenzie article and answered an ecstatic "Yes" to all three and yet people see my resume and previous work and just immediately slot me into the "code monkey" territory. I am able

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