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by dhruvkar 10y ago
You pay a company to have a service or product rendered. It's not my job to investigate Amazon's supply-chain to make sure that can actually deliver my toilet paper in 2 days. They are promising me this service and now it's t
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
http://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz You take a little quiz that asks you questions relating to political issues. It then compares your answers to the candidates.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Growth Hackers [0] is one I visit occasionally. It often has articles that mix technical skills with marketing at scale. It has a weekly digest, which shows lists the top X posts for the week, in which the there's usually 2-3 articles
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
If specific areas of the Bay Area aren't important, look for local, small business parks in smaller cities. Often times they aren't advertised very well, or at all. I've found interesting deals driving around and calling the
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
That's what I'm looking for. I'll check it out, thanks.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
The east bay python meetup is pretty relaxed, and has grown quite a bit in the last year. It's at Lost and Found on Telegraph on the 1st Tuesday of every month. http://meetu.ps/e/.chxnhlyvpbcb/9Plqj/a
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I agree with the gist of this article. Choose the right tools for the job. But as with anything, judgmental snark also goes both ways. The Javascript ecosystem is more of a mess than other, similarly popular, language ecosystems. There&#x27
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Thanks. I'd venture that the success rate is low. I, and others, have asked questions [0] [1] about people's experiences/financial numbers in running an indie business and the HN crowd very willingly shared both. I doubt the
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Ask HN: Have you landed a project through “Freelancer/Seeking Freelancer” posts?
3 points by dhruvkar 10y ago|7 comments
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Good to know. Just trying to find a thread (in front-end dev) to latch on to was challenging. So I threw out everything, and just started from HTML on Gitlab Pages. I've added on CSS, and just started adding in little JS functions. I c
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Good point. Having heard the same from other - "jQuery is OK, use React for new projects" - I'll focus on that then.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I couldn't get through the entire thing. Even knowing that it's a fun/sarcastic piece of writing, the portrayed pain is all too real, as someone just starting to dive into the front-end. In all honesty, can I still use jQuery
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I'm branching out on my own with a few freelance projects. Two questions: 1. What tactics do you use to ensure a stable income? 2. What percentage of your time is spent actually developing?
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Thanks for this, clarifies a bunch for me. I haven't hit any of the compelling reasons, so going to stick with functions for now.
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Ask HN: Python: Procedural vs. Object-Oriented – what factors matter?
2 points by dhruvkar 10y ago|1 comments
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Is Google Voice considered dead? It's been my primary number for ~4 years now, and yes, it's not 100% reliable (spotty forwarding once in a while), it's still serving me well.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I use firstinitiallastinitial@<mynamedomain>.com. It's not as redundant as firstname@<mynamedomain>.com. and still seems like a personal email address as opposed to "me/iam/contact".
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
The free market skews towards quicker gains. Most __important__ problems will, almost by definition, take longer to solve than less important problems. Non-profits often fill this gap by solving an important problem until it's profitab
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Great. Glad to hear you'll still be writing. :D
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
What was the project?
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Patrick, do you intend to continue doing side projects with you new role at Stripe? Best of luck at this new role :)
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Sure. But it felt effing good :) To clarify: it was a project outside of my 9-5, which made it feel side-projecty. It was also something that was paid on a contract basis which made it 'somehat official'. I negotiated almost 2.5 m
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I got into an ME (Masters of Engineering) program after a non-CS degree and working in the Industrial Engineering field. I would say it was worth it for me, as I worked on FreeBSD servers to set up a system for deploying experimental modul
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
If side project == freelancing, i just had my first (and only) month $1k. This was though Upwork. I negotiated hard and got 75% more than the initial offer. It felt more like negotiating a commodity (my day-job) than a specific skill set.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of exc
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Thanks for this. Looks like there are Gmail outages. The apps dashboard doesn't indicate this is the case.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I ran through these before posting. I'm the admin | on automatic billing, with last payment made September 2nd | been a google apps customer 6 months. Last night everything was working fine. I've made no changes. It's very we
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Ask HN: Is Google Apps Down?
1 points by dhruvkar 10y ago|4 comments
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
"Belief" implies agreeing with or without evidence, otherwise it would be fact - no need for belief. Even if it wasn't so, the evidence IS inconclusive. I think our hacker, left-brain bias leads to dismissing anything that is
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Why not? Absolutely believing in god and absolutely NOT believing in god are just as arbitrary as believing something in the middle. 'Just-so' stories aren't inherently inferior. Believe what you want.

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