bluewalt

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by bluewalt 6y ago
If I'd need to pick only one, I would say: "learn to learn". In the era of internet, where every piece of knowledge is available, I'm so surprised to meet so many people that are unable to learn things by themselves, rel
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by bluewalt 6y ago
Thanks a lot! Good resources!
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by bluewalt 6y ago
How did you build the landing page? (any tool?) I like the sleek style, it reminds me Stripe pages.
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Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?
269 points by bluewalt 6y ago|101 comments
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by bluewalt 6y ago
Thanks for the support. Yep even for me, now when I tell this story, the mistakes I made seem obvious. Selling is hard, and becomes close to impossible if like me, you don't know your target, and on top of that, you're socially an
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by bluewalt 6y ago
I actually found one in the end, he helped me sign my first contracts. Then I realised he was greedy, because he asked me to make 50/50 for company shares (but I worked full time for 18 months, not him). That didn't help to build
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by bluewalt 6y ago
I built a copycat of www.bellycard.com for French market. As a software engineer, the technical product was good IMHO. but I spent almost 2 years to build it, without really trying to sell it. My thought was: "if it's sold in US,
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by bluewalt 6y ago
The sentence is: "Without execution, an idea worth nothing". Often said to someone that refuse to unveil his idea.
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by bluewalt 6y ago
I spent 2 years building an awesome product, thinking that my future clients would think this product awesome too, and that they would need it. I was completely wrong. I didn't know my clients and my market. This is the exact definitio
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by bluewalt 7y ago
Following social conventions. The more I grow up, the more I have the feeling this lead people to the wrong path to happiness. Having the ability to be and act different is harder than it seems to. But when you know deep inside how you shou
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by bluewalt 7y ago
Almost the same: Django/Python/DRF/PgSQL. But: - I use Redis with Celery instead of RabbitMQ (not because it's better, but can be picked for other usages like caching, etc.) - I use Heroku to ease deployment instead of h
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by bluewalt 7y ago
After reading almost all comments, all of this make me think that your positions on the debate are based on psychological characters. Some people are idealists : as Javascript is in some state, but could have been a lot better if history h
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by bluewalt 7y ago
To me, the fact we need another language to compile to it, is just another proof the language is broken
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by bluewalt 7y ago
Actually, after years of Django, this is such a pain for me to create a SPA with the same level of quality, that I'm considering stopping web development to learn ML. So, maybe it does not prevent SOME people, but it's about to pr
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by bluewalt 7y ago
This article made me think a lot about the habit of trying new things: https://www.raptitude.com/2017/12/go-deeper-not-wider/
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by bluewalt 8y ago
Or just stop using the old pip, and use pipenv instead. https://pipenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ This will allow you to to this, and lots of other stuff.
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by bluewalt 8y ago
This constant need to evolve is the exact definition of immaturity, for HTML/CSS/JS front-end. I'm not a mobile dev, but I'm pretty sure when you make the front-end in an iOS app, you don't need to learn 3 languages
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by bluewalt 8y ago
The major problem is that when you learn something in this current crazy JS/Front world, your knowledge is deprecated 6 months later. I know a developer should always stay up to date with technology by constantly learning, but if I com
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by bluewalt 8y ago
I Found a job in which I'm not forced to set an alarm to wake up, and can take a nap at any time. I feel a lot more alert and productive all day long this way.
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by bluewalt 9y ago
Thanks for the reminder. Django made me like web development and find a job that I really love today. $25 given, it's nothing for this.
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by bluewalt 9y ago
No Python 2 support, good thing. I understood that the Django codebase is lighter thanks to this, but I'm asking myself if it has any implication for the developper? (I was already using Python 3.6) My guess: - The Django codesource is
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by bluewalt 9y ago
I can't agree more with you. That's the one and only reason I'll stick to the 1.11 version. Garanty of compatibility between Django and ALL my external packages is a lot more valuable that a responsive admin panel and a new s
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by bluewalt 9y ago
Is there any resource that teaches mixed ES5/ES6 for beginners? Either I find some ES5 resources, and I have the feeling to spend my time learning stuff I'll never use by myself. Either I find some ES6 resources that need ES5 know
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by bluewalt 9y ago
I would pay $100/year for a photo organizer SaaS, that has a read-only access on a folder in my Dropbox, and let me organize my photos by time, by people on the photo, by places, or by events that I would have created. It would let me
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by bluewalt 9y ago
I'm in Paris, I did it and it had absolutely no effect. I guess the spammers don't care about these stickers or not bothering you. They just want to finish their spam job as soon as possible.