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by atleta 6y ago
Speaking for the Hungarians: you're right, if you get used to it, you actually don't even notice the leading year if you don't care. The whole thing just seems to be made up. In other words, rationalization of a habit. Why bi
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by atleta 6y ago
Definitely not LISP. LISP uses a prefix notation, the expression in the post uses infix (like most programming languages).
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by atleta 6y ago
Yes, good questions are important in order to convince a client (whether the project is hourly or fixed price). > There's also risk that the developer they take the requirements + design doesn't really understand what they&#x27
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by atleta 6y ago
Interesting. You are arguing with something I've never said. I was just responding to the comment above that said "We developed two very effective vaccines using mRNA technology in a few months". That indeed those few months
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by atleta 6y ago
Fun fact: the mRNA vaccines were developed in about 2 weeks after the publication of the SARS2 DNA sequence. (At least the Pfizer/BioNTech one was.)
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by atleta 6y ago
Well, then you had a fair share of what you need as a freelancer, for sure. Out of curiosity: why did you make the switch? Is it worth it, as opposed to working as a solo/freelancer PM? As an engineer, I feel most of the value I bring
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by atleta 6y ago
Thanks. Definitely informative.
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by atleta 6y ago
Not really. First of all, most Uber drivers don't have an alternative option. At least not to be able to work in their job, e.g. as taxi drivers. This is a huge difference, since developers are in huge demand. Then there are some of us
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by atleta 6y ago
Nah. Besides professional intrinsic motivations (some people just can't convince themselves to produce shit) it also matters what the client wants and requires. Of course, a clueless non-technical client, esp. if they are inexperienced
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by atleta 6y ago
Also, it makes a lot of difference whether you are an employee or a subcontractor. These laws protect the employees. It's actually explicitly specified in this document as well: in the context of an employment contract/relati
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by atleta 6y ago
I guess we're talking about software development. Because it depends a lot on the kind of the job (or maybe I'm just ignorant and someone else's job seems simpler ;) ). But if we talk about software only, then estimating is h
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by atleta 6y ago
They've been developing it for 1.5 years and still no results, no visible MVP? I guess that's how it looks like when a startup matures and loses it's core values. I still remember hearing Reid Hoffman at a conference (well, t
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by atleta 6y ago
It's interesting, ~20% now seems to be the norm. (Not just for developer platforms.) 10% is pretty reasonable. I also used to work for a few years through upwork, sill when it was elance. I kind of remember that the rate was around 10%
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by atleta 6y ago
This is interesting. I usually advise beginners NOT to start freelancing before they get some experience with a full time job at a company (preferably a non-remote/on-site position). If the market starts to push people into the other d
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by atleta 6y ago
This is a pretty nice list of awesome looking startups/products built with substantial effort that don't make (enough) money. I don't mean to be negative, and sure there are stories that look nice (even though we don't
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by atleta 6y ago
Fair enough. I still find it interesting but not as a motivator, but rather as a warning. I see quite a few professionally built web sites that have been around for years (3-5, at least based on the domain creation date in whois) and still
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by atleta 6y ago
Not only that, but inflation is a feature not a bug. Maybe a bug turned into a feature, but still a feature. Something governments and national banks use to stimulate investment and thus economic growth. Because, as you say, hoarding and
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by atleta 6y ago
Cool! I've been thinking of a similar solution to add to my (planned ;) ) longer blog posts. I'm guilty of going into the details too much sometimes.
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by atleta 6y ago
Yeah, so I'm aware that the way to charge more is to tell clients that you'll charge more ;). However, the range people work for is pretty wide and depend on a lot of variables. I was trying to figure out some of those in your cas
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by atleta 6y ago
So they charge $1/min the customer but only pay out $0.75. That's pretty steep a commission. The usual rate for similar services is around 20% (or between 10-20%).
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by atleta 6y ago
Paypal is f*&^ expensive. They'll enforce a conversion to your native currency which will cost about 2.5% (but no one really knows - at least this used to be the case last time I used them). $45/hr seems pretty low from here (
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by atleta 6y ago
Well, on codementor you can give a refund. And that would erase the session (and the rating, if you received one) from your history. I think it's better than tipping. Tipping, at least to my European ears, sounds like this voluntary th
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by atleta 6y ago
The problem is, that no one can give you (or themselves) a reasonable estimate on how much it will take (and thus how much it should cost) to fix an issue in an unknown codebase. The mismatch is easily done away with by adding ratings to th
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by atleta 6y ago
Yeah, the idling thing, or looking from the other side, the on-demand expectation pretty much kills it. Or makes it hard to organize. I used to be active on CodeMentor a few years ago, and the bad thing for these problem solving kind of req
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by atleta 6y ago
Not unlike codementor, though the landing page maybe has a bit different value proposition. There they offer mentoring, this one looks more like specialized problem solving. But, of course, the two overlap strongly. E.g. on codementor quite
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by atleta 6y ago
How/where do you manage to charge this kind of rate? Are you contracting clients directly or through some agency? Also, is this for on premise or remote work? You take on full projects or augment existing teams?
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by atleta 6y ago
Yeah, pretty stupid name, if you want to google it. Why they made the change was explained in the blog post: the old name was too specific and describing only one of their services (the one that they have launched with), that is, internatio
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by atleta 6y ago
Yeah, I almost mentioned that I'm using gnome on linux but then I thought that this must be a ubiquitous feature. Now I'm surprised and have to look up if "always on top" was there in windows XP (the last version I'
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by atleta 6y ago
I keep remembering that episode from The Outer Limits (the 90s series). I think the title was "The stream". It was set in the future, where everybody had an implant that they could use to access 'the stream' to get acces
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by atleta 6y ago
Well, I can grab the tab off the browser window, then enable 'always on top'. But yep, that's more than one click, so I guess if someone does this all the time then it makes sense for them to automate it.

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