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by doozy 10y ago
> Like writing freebsd-update in POSIX shell How is this a bad thing? It is part of the base system, so it's either /bin/sh or C.
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by doozy 10y ago
Supply and demand, the one thing economists get right. You seems to be assuming the supply of software developers will keep outgrowing the demand for them. Why? I predict the exact opposite: As the developing world develops, local demand fo
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by doozy 10y ago
Fossil diff is the killer feature for me. Thanks for your great work.
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by doozy 10y ago
That's how we all learned. That, and I remember downloading Netscape 2.0 and finding an html tutorial in the help menu. I should start claiming 20+ years of web development experience. I also adopted their mail client, I've been u
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by doozy 10y ago
"By the end of 1994, the Web had 10,000 servers - of which 2000 were commercial - and 10 million users." That was the time I first gained internet access. So that puts me well within the first 1% of internet users. The web felt hu
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by doozy 10y ago
From craigslist, and I ended up working like a week to earn $100. But it got me started.
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by doozy 10y ago
FREELANCER SEEKING FREELANCER (Remote, UTC-5/EST) I do a lot of Python work and I'm often fully booked. I'm turning down enough work to keep another developer employed, so I'm looking for someone with some serious Python
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by doozy 10y ago
So your "business" has not enough capital to pay its founders a below market rate salary nor to pay a graphics designer. Don't take this the wrong way, but it sounds to me you don't have enough capital to start even a pi
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by doozy 10y ago
The appeal of startups is they are the only chance to be paid what one is worth. The alternative is to toil for the rest of your working life making enough to live but not enough to ever be financially free. The elephant in the room is soft
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by doozy 10y ago
$1500 pays perhaps one day of salary for your team of 3. What kind of business has problems affording that?
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by doozy 10y ago
Not impossible, its akin to having a P vs NP problem. Properly estimating a software project takes just as long as developing the software itself. When people want estimates they somehow assume they can be given on the spot, or at most with
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by doozy 10y ago
No one will pay you to do something you have not done before. But it's fairly easy to find programming work if you have done something similar in the past. Pick a project that you like and develop it. Make it open source. Research what
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by doozy 10y ago
> - less language barrier. I find it really hard to understand non-native speakers over a bad skype connection (high quality headsets would fix this I believe) > The language barrier thin is very real. I'm not a native English s
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by doozy 10y ago
Ability to communicate properly and proficiency with collaboration tools rank high on the list. It's also crucial to be able to properly identify and evaluate the contributions of any team member. Remote is also largely incompatible wi
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by doozy 10y ago
1. is absolutely true. Real time communication has been crucial to my success as a remote developer. I'm in South America so it's easy for me to work at the same time as coworkers in the US. I worked for a some time for a British
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by doozy 10y ago
As someone who has worked 10+ years remotely (based in South America) I think it's a combination of factors: Supply and demand. Why hire remote when there's plenty of warm bodies locally? Most companies do not need, and cannot aff
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by doozy 10y ago
Email + IRC + Mumble + Any combination of version control, bugtracker and wiki. Why people pay for this kind of thing is beyond me.
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by doozy 10y ago
Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Jamaica, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh... All apparently doing pretty well.
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by doozy 10y ago
Sending $1 billion a year since the start of Plan Colombia (1996) implies Colombia would have received over $20 billion by now. In reality the amount of American aid to Colombia is about half of that. And American aid does not come in cash,
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by doozy 10y ago
Venezuelans have been leaving the country for the last decade or so. There are huge numbers of them here already. It's not easy for them to leave because their currency is basically worthless and access to hard currency is restricted t
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by doozy 10y ago
As someone who lives next door to Venezuela, it seems to me the situation over there has really hit the proverbial fan. Venezuela has been in a disastrous economic situation for years, but nowhere as bad what we are seeing these days. Just
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by doozy 10y ago
Fair enough, but the point stands. If I were given the choice of a $70k/year position in Sao Paulo or, let's say, Miami, FL. I would take the Miami location without hesitating for a second. $70k goes a lot further there than in So
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by doozy 10y ago
That's not the point, the point is $70k in Sao Paulo buys you a lower standard of living than $70k pretty much anywhere in the US but in a handful of cities. $70k in Sao Paulo doesn't go much further than $70k in New York (or Toky
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by doozy 10y ago
I got my first remote position in 2002. That's 14 years ago (time flies, doesn't it?). I wouldn't call that "still very new". I do agree it requires a certain know-how to make it work. It seems to me there's mo
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by doozy 10y ago
It may be a splendid salary in some locations outside the US, it is not in many others. Americans tend to believe they are wealthier than anyone else. Not so! Apart of the fact several countries in Europe have higher salaries (and cost of l
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by doozy 10y ago
Should you hire me? I'll give you 10 facts about myself. Decide for yourself: 1. As a kid I taught myself to program using Borland Turbo C++ for DOS and Deitel's C How to Program book 2. I've been on the internet since the da
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by doozy 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (EST / UTC-5, but flexible about hours) Remember when developing a website involved writing cgi scripts in Perl, cross-browser compatibility meant supporting Mosaic and Netscape, Java applets were the hottest thin
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by doozy 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (EST / UTC-5, but flexible about hours) Full-stack senior developer with a bias towards Python. Buzzwords: Python, Flask, Tornado, Django, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NumPy, SciPy, asyncio, BeautifulSoup, lx
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by doozy 12y ago
Location: Currently in South America Remote: Yes (Second time I've ever posted in one of these threads, last month I received many interesting offers but they weren't REMOTE. Guys, I'm not moving to SV any time s
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by doozy 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote only At one point or another I've been paid to develop in Python, C, Perl, Java, x86 assembly, Matlab, Fortran, PHP and a few other languages. I do mostly Python these days. Some things I've recently complete

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