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by acconrad 8y ago
Easier said than done. They may respect you but they'll also likely not hire you. They have to respect you AND know you. It's hard to justify paying someone a lot if they are an unknown quantity. I checked out your HN profile: do
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by acconrad 8y ago
I've only been at it a year but I find this to be nearly impossible. 95% of my income this past year was writing software. Whenever someone saw me as a "software consultant" they thought "well why don't we pay him t
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by acconrad 8y ago
It's one thing to not be happy at Google+, which is the center of this rant. But to put targets on all of the companies you interviewed at along the way with their founders Twitter names? Incredibly bitter and salty. It's no way t
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by acconrad 8y ago
Boston is terrible at this. It seems like it's the only thing they're building right now in the city's most popular neighborhoods (South End, South Boston, Seaport). All the other neighborhoods are just renos, renos, renos. A
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by acconrad 8y ago
I'm happy for you but this is a super privileged viewpoint that most people can't really learn from. I'd be happy too if I could just take a year off and do whatever I want. Most people can't do things like traveling to
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by acconrad 8y ago
The million-dollar question: how do you find clients? Honestly, the first one approached me via HackerNews. The rest have been from my network. Blogging has yet to bring me more business, because my name and brand have not reached the mind-
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by acconrad 8y ago
My wife and I went to Paris for our anniversary and we didn't realize until we were there that it was Fashion Week. I am genuinely not surprised at all that this guy made it to the top. Streetwear has become so ironic because the lines
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by acconrad 8y ago
Does Microsoft count? It's in the same market cap as Amazon and Google. I've been consulting for the past year while I build a few side-projects, hoping they'll turn into businesses. I'm making more than I ever have befo
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Should you hide negative emotions from children?(theconversation.com)
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Why futurism has a cultural blind spot(nautil.us)
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Mathematics as thought(aeon.co)
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by acconrad 8y ago
Front page quality seems to have deteriorated. I brought this up in an Ask HN and I think I came off as self-righteous and that was my fault. But I think the crux of the issue is I just don't get how certain low-quality stuff makes the
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Ask HN: Can you authentically make the front page anymore?
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by acconrad 8y ago
How did this get upvoted so much for something that has so little substance?
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by acconrad 8y ago
Fun fact: I am now learning theory and chord names. I was in a band in college and I could never play along with the properly trained. "Can you play that in a C minor pentatonic scale?" "Yeah!... So what frets are those?&quot
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Why hiring is broken and how I'm dealing with it(userinterfacing.com)
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by acconrad 8y ago
I learned the guitar playing by ear. As a kid I would just lock myself in my bedroom and play along with my CDs until my fingers were raw. It's a lot of screwing up, starting the song over, and trying again until it sounds right. I s
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by acconrad 8y ago
Where are you seeing that? I'm designing the Model 3 right now and with AWD and autopilot it comes to $63k before incentives and $53k after... https://3.tesla.com/model3/design#autopilot
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by acconrad 8y ago
They seem more excited about the 6.1[1] than the 7.1...anyone have experience with it? I'm really disappointed with the Pixel line and have no interest in spending nearly $1000 on a phone so the 6.1 sounds like a nice compromise but wa
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by acconrad 8y ago
Fellow consultant here. These are the top 3 things you should fix: 1. The site loads very slowly. This is largely static content, it should not take this long to load. Adding in all of the whiz-bang animations and transitions detracts from
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by acconrad 8y ago
I cannot for the life of me rationalize spending so much on a car. The $35,000 just doesn't make sense in New England, so I need to add in AWD. Then I need to add in the autopilot because isn't that the point of owning a Tesla so
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by acconrad 8y ago
Any reason no love for Boston?
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by acconrad 8y ago
> "No one really explains to you taxes and contracts and how to chase a client for that bill that they owe you — like, the nitty-gritty," Wait...what? Before I even broke out into freelance consulting I hired an accountant. W
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by acconrad 8y ago
As a freelancer and consultant I find this app to be incredibly useful because it essentially puts all of my client work into one app. I basically run this, my terminal, and Sublime and I've got everything I need that is fast and quick
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Verifying request signatures in Elixir/Phoenix(userinterfacing.com)
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by acconrad 8y ago
I get that, especially for enterprise/B2B businesses. What kills me is that CTOs get paid less than every other major position, too. How can engineers be "more valuable than money" [1] but are the lowest paid in the executive
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Where good work comes from(justinjackson.ca)
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The worst kind of pain you can imagine(theconversation.com)
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by acconrad 8y ago
> The kids are young and share a big room How will that scale when they are teenagers? Especially if mixed-sexes, I can foresee this being difficult, which I think is part of the reason my wife and I are looking at separate bedrooms.
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by acconrad 8y ago
I'm genuinely curious - how did you manage 1500 sq ft with two kids? I've seen various outlets that state most people need roughly 450 sq ft, and we currently have 900 sq ft for me and my wife and that feels right, maybe even slig

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