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by alinajaf 14y ago
Just a search engine you go to. I was already paying a VA to trawl through most of the sites that it scrapes so using it saved me a few dollars a month. I'm quite sure there's a paid service at a similar sort of price range to what you're d
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by alinajaf 14y ago
It would depend entirely on the quality of the leads, though I'd definitely sign up for a one month free trial to test it out. Many a thing like this exist, both paid and free. Jobpile has netted me some work in the past. Jobpile: http://w
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Great post. I'm in London and started freelancing a few months ago and I'd agree with everything you've said. Only things I would suggest: * Contracts. Watch this talk by Obie Fernandez[1] and take a look at his Master Services Agreement +
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Based on this comment I think it's possible that vim isn't for you and you would probably be better suited to something like Sublime or TextMate.
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> I describe a few of these experiences later in the linked thread [0] -- things like hearing turn-by-turn directions to previously unknown locations, or being told to give a particular item to a stranger who had some specific need for
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by alinajaf 14y ago
And intimately related, distance. In Kendo at least you win or lose by knowing where the cutting part (the forward 1/4 - 1/3) of your sword is going to be at the moment you make contact. This means thinking strategically about distance (e.g
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I don't think you should be doing anything you don't want to. It was an honest question.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
While I am an atheist and do believe that evolution is the origin of all biological diversity on Earth, I think it's monumentally important that traditional theistic beliefs and evolution be reconciled.[1] Before making the jump, I had no p
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by alinajaf 14y ago
As a former kendoka, this is a wet dream. I can finally put all that kata to good use!
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That qualifies as "in some capacity" as far as I'm concerned.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Your dad is a good man. Thanks, I'm sure he would appreciate the sentiment. > Supposedly we are related to monkeys in 98% genetically wise, but yet monkeys still have their children. We're not descended from monkeys that are alive
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> there are literally thousands (if not more) Like who?
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They totally exist. My dad (an Epidemiologist by trade) didn't believe in evolution. He also wouldn't agree that gravity is the force that holds celestial objects in orbit around each other. People can be funny like that...
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As a species we haven't had that long to get used to the idea. I hope sincerely that we will have all the denial out of our system in a few hundred years time.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Can you give me an example of a development company or freelancer that isn't working on their own products in some capacity?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
You're describing my situation almost exactly (i.e. making the leap to consulting with nothing lined up). I'm a few months ahead of you, and have had some serious ups and downs so far. More free advice for others considering the same: * I d
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by alinajaf 14y ago
This comment sounds exactly like the sort of thing you would read in an 'Agile Project Management' book. I think it's just fashionable to rail against agile now, when we've already incorporated all of the good stuff into our processes as th
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> i.e. Pivotal OK, so what you call Pivotal, I call Scrum. > The key is: just try to keep people out of your project and company who have absolutely no clue about tech/Internet/online. I'll try, thanks. As I said with non-technical
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by alinajaf 14y ago
His previous book Ruby for Rails is just as good an introduction to Ruby.
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In an all technical team, sure. But any time you have to interface with normals, tools like Scrum are often the only thing standing between you and "That page that gets their facebook photos and creates a PDF collage out of them will only t
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by alinajaf 14y ago
That was my initial reaction when reading the title. Actually watching the demo video shows that expected work done is more akin to pre/post interview coding tests.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I have no idea why Patrick gives this amount of value-drenched information away for free. What's encouraging is that the advice has gone over the heads of the majority of commenters here, and no matter how hard he tries, his advice on A/B
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I'm just one datapoint, but Patrick has built up enough goodwill capital over the years that it took me about eight seconds from seeing the announcement on his twitter feed to signing up for his list.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Wow, I'm no expert but you're right. That header image is rather fugly.
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It's difficult to take articles about languages like this seriously without the author demonstrating some knowledge of other more and less powerful languages. That way they at least have some idea of where they sit on the blub spectrum: ht
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> What if you remove the branch and nobody has any idea where change 'x' came from or why? If you want to make it clear that the change was from a branch, you can merge with --no-ff and you'll have a merge commit. What you call 'rewriti
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Also grinning like an idiot for the past hour. Really made my day, ecstatic that it's been successful. I think I'm still young enough (26) to retrain. I'm not a US citzen, but screw it. This is the future, and I will be a part of it.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
While I think this is very cool and would like it to happen, I don't think this is a good thing to be focusing on just yet. It seems like trying to build the HMS Victory before you've quite figured out how to build coastal clippers. A bette
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It is when it comes from the founder of a company that sells itself as a 'scalable realtime backend for your web-app'.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
That's about me, post-tax for the past two years I think. Would go a lot further if I were single, but we can afford to rent a decent-sized 2-bedroom flat in a nice area without having to pinch pennies.

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