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by dejv 9y ago
Well it depends on what you consider being interesting: finding work that let you use latest javascript framework or architecting micro services? Easy. Finding work that will let you spend years and years perfecting the way how to make quer
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I am in my 11th year as a fulltime freelancer. It is nice ride, interestingly I haven't had problem with things all wannabe freelancers expecting: all of my invoices get paid (with 99,9% of them on time), I was always able to cover my
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Well, there is no thing such as best wine. You can create most expensive wine or most scarce wine, but there is nothing like best wine, like there is no the best painting in the world.
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Can you share a link? Would like to check it out.
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It was hard to get all the company to use it. If you use it just for small subset than it is not that valuable. Say you are tracking work done in vineyard, but nothing else. Then your calculation of price of produce is off, because you have
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Product integrated with 4 major accounting systems, so it was more like frontend for those legacy stuff. Major thing was warehouse/logistics system which was my own. In wine business thats quite complex thing: you might want to sell bu
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You are right. I am currently building another product, which is lite version of what I have and which is applicable to broader market: not just wine farmers, but all farms and consttuction companies.
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web app and unfinished mobile app (native iOS)
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I've build complex app for managing vineyards and wineries. It has tons of features: time tracking, input tracking, harvest and production features, mapping, tons of budget/cost analysis. It turned out, it is hard to convince farm
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Industrial IoT is quite thriving industry. Things like machine monitoring and performance, sensor networks for process monitoring and many other niche cases.
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Your saving rate is going to be higher on 50k/year in easter Europe than 100k SF salary. Just by using this extra money and investing them in various assets might help you get additional income streams that will eventually helps you cr
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Yes, if you can manage to find even some 40k or 50k/year contract it will put you into about 5% of top earner in population in many central/east european countries. Prices are not as low as you might imagine, but it will give you
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The problem is that 100k is nothing when building machines for professional/industrial use. Cost of material and various prototypes adds up quickly.
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Yeah, right now it is all about email marketing automation. Few years ago, the hot space was project management software and before that it was bug tracking software. Get your timing right and you are golden, start too early or too late and
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I guess I am past the need of motivation. I started coding more than 20 years ago and back then it was all about that I want to really learn how to write good software and create cool projects. Today I am just happy to have few low pressure
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I am no doctor, but I guess when you run health care as a for profit adventure you will try to extract more money from your patient. Maybe not the direct way, but you might buy a lot of very expensive equipment and send your patients there
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Hard to say. I guess it is combination of different things. I also suspect remarketing campaigns plays role in lower CTR, but I haven't really investigate it.
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Yes, I can do it, but I respect choice of my users.
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I have couple of small side projects that which are monetised through ads. Portfolio of those web apps are 7 years old and traffic is growing linearly. The problem is revenue, which is basically cutting in half every 12 - 18 months: both CT
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For me undrinkable = faulty wine, but those are very rare these days. I just throw those wines away. Bigger problem with wines in region of 5 - 15 euros is that they are boring. They taste like generic wines and nothing more. I put aside th
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For me the wine is all about culture. I do like to read the profiles on wineries: history, how they work in vineyards, how they treat the wine in cellar, why they choose of what they do. What is the history of the region and how it was shap
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Using user review are not very helpful as well. Each taster use different vocabulary and there are even different way to analyse wine: some people describe the flavours (this wine is strawberries, apple, lime) some, including me, are more o
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The article display some cool use for NLP, but as a winemaker and wine judge I find methodology funny and flawed. You have to understand that wine descriptions are nothing more then marketing message that have very little resemblance to wha
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Well, all of those gigs were for agencies I used to work as a developer. I was not interested in taking another fulltime project anymore (I was migrating into farming) and those code reviews, pre-sales (and I also did tons of interviews) wa
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My best source of good income was doing code reviews for an agency, but after while they realised how lucrative it is and started to do them inhouse. I also did some presales engineering work for another agency. Agencies are great for this
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Next acquisition target should be Instapaper.
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But thats one track. Say you went carpenter route when you were 15 and now you want to study medicine or electronics or CS. You are going to lack basic background: even with master school it is really going to be tough to learn all the chem
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The system is build as a training for just one type of work and nothing more. (if we are not talking about gymnasiums) So changing tracks means starting from zero again. It is doable, but very few people want to start again in class full of
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Thats case for gymnasiums, right? How about other type of schools? Are they still popular? Here in Czech rep. those vocational only schools are kind of dyin.
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Well, it is different system here and in Germany. Vocational study or technical high school is limiting your choices of uni and career paths. Post high school you either go work (you already spent few years on the job during school) or uni.

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