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by claudiulodro 3y ago
You could probably do a self-destruct with this technique by also having something generate and automatically set a random password.
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
What about branding yourself as an "Engagement Consultant"? That's a more defined service with plenty of demand (probably) and doesn't quite pigeon hole you into one type of activity.
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
Rather than specializing in a skill you could specialize in a market or domain e.g. digital services for furniture manufacturers (probably not a domain you personally are familiar with, but just an example).
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
The bulk of these are municipal and state government, not federal government.
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
Self-employed tradesman pays as much on a per-hour basis as contract dev work and doesn't have to compete with a million people in developing countries willing to work for $20/hr. The project management parts from software develop
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
It seems like companies are really tightening the screws further this year. When I got into this industry I figured the good times would roll for about 10 years, and then it would be about time for another career change. "Make hay whil
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
It does make financial sense for many though, because risk exists. In a big downturn would you rather be laid off with a paid-for house or laid off with a mortgage and a bunch of stocks that just plummeted in value?
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
It's an interesting philosophy. I have 2 questions that I promise are in good faith: 1. Is there support in this movement from people that don't stand to make a bunch of money off AI advancements? Like, I get the philosophy could
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
I'm taking the opposite approach with my somewhat similar project Fantastic Dimensions[1]. I fundamentally don't believe the type of consumer that creates this sort of stuff will want to have AI do the heavy lifting for them. I&#x
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
If the numbers are wildly inaccurate as everyone seems to be saying, what are the actual highest-paying tech companies? The usual FAANG and quant-type companies everyone knows?
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
This is a really interesting experiment/art-project! Fascinating idea and solid implementation. There is definitely a sense of connection with the person on the other side of the screen! Side note: the Hacker News crowd definitely look
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
Today's children will be enabling your future retirement. You're going to be their burden, whether it's paying for your social security or keeping the value of your stocks high.
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
I'm trying to understand the use-case for this -- is it essentially a fancy blogroll?
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
I think the big difference is that with virtual meetings you're essentially spending an hour staring into a fixed-distance lightbulb, which is more fatiguing than having a variety of distances and things to look at.
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
Cloudflare is the simplest solution, but for the sake of treating this like a system design exercise, can you reasonably assume that there is not an infinite supply of devices with which to conduct the attack, fingerprint the devices, and b
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
I think at Nintendo they've probably worked on like 20 games over the years, which probably helps keep things fresh and interesting. If they were in the Super Mario codebase for 40 years, just adding features like 2FA and CSV Export us
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
I do pay it on the unrealized gains though! As the value of the neighborhood/property increases, the appraised value goes up and my property taxes go up. This increases my taxes based on the increasing value of a non-income-producing a
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
Why is it unthinkable to make billionaires generate some income to pay taxes? I pay property taxes on the "unrealized capital gains" of my house, and somehow I make it work.
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
> atleast I need to be as useful as wordpress article editor The WordPress article editor (Gutenberg) is FOSS, so you could just use that in your project. That's definitely at least as useful as the WordPress article editor! ;)
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
I got a framed company poster once! That's about the extent of it.
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
On the plus side, since they'll have you working 10 hours a day 7 days a week, that's a cool $350k/yr!
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
This is a really interesting and clever way of thinking about it, and I think you've hit the nail on the head! I'm bookmarking this comment. I've tried to start a bunch of businesses and side projects over the years in that i
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Fantastic Dimensions 0.2.0: Placeables(fantasticdimensions.net)
2 points by claudiulodro 3y ago|0 comments
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
Anecdotally I hear that freelance article writing dried up pretty quickly now that you can just ask GPT "write an article about my dry cleaning company in Phoenix" and similar bottom-of-the-barrel content tasks.
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
Hopefully not too pedantic, but they do have Precision Castparts, which manufactures all sorts of aerospace, wind turbine, and other giant industrial things: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/02/court-a
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
I'd wager the average open-source maintainer has a good software job and is doing OK financially, and many are even doing the open-source as part of that job. If they're unemployed and trying to pay the bills from their independen
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Show HN: Fantastic Dimensions – Play, share, create infinite unique dimensions(fantasticdimensions.net)
1 points by claudiulodro 3y ago|1 comments
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Fantastic Dimensions v0.1.1(fantasticdimensions.net)
3 points by claudiulodro 3y ago|0 comments
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
Are you capable of doing physical work for a living, or (to be blunt) are you only suited for office-type work? You can make a decent living as a UPS driver or postal worker, tradesperson (requires apprenticeship, but you get paid during it
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by claudiulodro 3y ago
There are definitely spaces like Indie Hackers or Startups for the Rest of Us/MicroConf centered around smaller sustainable software businesses, but those people aren't starting with hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment

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