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by alinajaf 14y ago
Interesting, I take it this is not the norm in the US (I'm assuming that's where you're located).
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I think it's possible that you've misunderstood the comment I was replying to. The poster is referring to permanent employees under a ROWE-like system. As you say, I would have to be in dire financial straits before I accept a freelance c
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Only thing you're missing out on is the ability to work on and towards your own projects. Not sure about the average freelancer, but most technical freelancers I know see it as a stepping stone towards getting their own little SaaS or iPhon
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Is it, in your opinion, possible to have decent software development skills without years of experience under your belt? Do you meet many such people? This is going to sound mean, but have you considered doing entry-level programming
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Good for you! In my case I moved to ruby but I would imagine the transition is similar to other languages at a similar level of abstraction. I went through a long phase where I was trying to bring patterns from ruby into PHP. It got to the
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by alinajaf 14y ago
For me personally, I'm not able to move around much but I do live in London where there is a pretty active tech scene. Here's how I did it: * Let x be the technology you want to work with professionally. * Spend roughly a year of occasional
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Cue legions of PHP drones blubbing about how it does the job just fine, it's available everywhere and how it's used by Facebook and half the internet. We get it. We used to be PHP developers too. We took the time to learn other languages an
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I've found it occasionally useful when pairing, i.e. "no no, I mean the call on line 23, not 28".
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by alinajaf 14y ago
The idea is that you google 'wordpress sites for heritage language asian schools' and this guys blog is the only thing on the SERP for the informative, expertise-demonstrating content he's got there. At no point does he have to be explici
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by alinajaf 14y ago
But it's definitely worse than a scripting language like ruby. Also, by this definition, the OP is just adding terseness to Java, not lambdas or anonymous functions.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
If I'm understanding you correctly, I believe it has both. Blocks act as closures and lambdas are dynamically scoped, though you can convert between the two and change the scoping in either case.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Do you mean to say that one language can't be objectively better than another?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Care to elaborate? Ruby had them from day 1, PHP has only had them since 5.3, not sure what the deal is with python.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Woohoo, Hi Ben!
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Have you tried running vimtutor? It goes quite a way towards teaching the general philosophy (or 'zen' if you like) behind using vim.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Yep, I'm the same. I do however jump 5 or perhaps 10 lines or words in the general direction I want to move in and correct from there. Other times it's less keystrokes to just hit / and search for the next location.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Depth is hard to measure, but generally I find that clients will ask a question about a specific programming topic and start off basic. When the candidate gets that right, they go a little deeper with the second question and the cand
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Thought this myself... BUT it could work with three pedals (i, a and o) with the shift key. Brilliant idea though, I would pay up to $50 for one of these.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> No sense of humor? Oh right, HN. I'll start laughing when you start being funny. > Nope. Catenating files has been the privilege of Unix users since the 70s, that we would believe this to be difficult or complicated is embarrassin
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> I'd seen the Resque/DelayedJob stuff. The equivalent in Python-land are Celery and Carrot. They're probably not much different. I'd expect as much. > Creating defaults for this stuff is definitely cool, but OTOH, it's something we
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Serious response from Rails-land. Though this project is interesting, it's not really going to make much of a dent in my daily workflow. There is a metric shit-ton of work being put into things that do. Over the past few years: * The Rails
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Great article, though I do some of these things and have never really had trouble securing work, some examples: Candidate has wide technical breadth but little depth and related: not uncommon, particularly for folks that have perhaps bou
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Just to clarify, if someone stayed late to fix something on Tuesday and then clocked off early on Wednesday in lieu, would that count as overtime in your definition?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I did the exact same while working full time and am trying to do the same as a freelancer now. What I've found is that no matter how early I wake up I have about eight hours in me and then I lose the ability to focus. I have a feeling exerc
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Personally I've found that having my company gives me something to pin all of my personal projects, freelance efforts and stuff that belongs to me on. Eventually this grew to the point where I was able to leave my full-time job, and I'm n
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Sure, because the most socially calibrated response to this article was to use it as an opportunity to remind us all that you're one of the few of us who isn't socially retarded. Good job chief!
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by alinajaf 14y ago
That's a shame, it's a hell of a lot of fun!
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Question for HN, how do you generally feel about the 'Intrinsically Motivated' requirement? I'm deeply motivated about a great many things that are important to me, but helping to implement or maintain someone elses idea isn't one of them.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> I've already been turned down by a few companies at my current rate because I was too expensive. In this market, you really, really really are not too expensive. Some concrete sources for PHP work: * http://hackerjobs.co.uk/ - Qua
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I've interviewed and secured something like five developer jobs in as many years, at both startupish and big-money companies. Jeans, t-shirt and hoodie at each.

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