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by ehsanul 16y ago
Great advice! I'll try that once I'm done with everyone who has tried to contact me (It's already quite a lot to just evaluate all the requests).
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Actually, if you wanted continued work, you'd pay for it. You get only one free job, which should be limited in scope. If you want more work, you won't get it for free, and that's reason enough for any freelancer to keep working with you.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Thanks, reading it now. Many of these sites have certain restrictions which make it difficult or impossible for me in particular to work through them and get paid, otherwise I'd use them.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Interesting story! But of course, I hope my experience will not be quite the same. I've tried this once, and it went well. Perhaps I was just lucky. I feel like HN is a different crowd that might understand my motivations for doing this, gi
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I actually can't legally use elance.com, odesk.com, etc. due to silly reasons. It's also not easy to get started there without a portfolio and rates are way low, not just at first, but always. I actually found the first "free" client on ela
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Not everyone on HN is a bored programmer. However, for someone new to freelancing like me, it may be easier to work with people who are at least familiar with the development process, just to get a tighter spec from them. I'm also looking f
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HN: Hire me. For free.
112 points by ehsanul 16y ago|60 comments
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I read it as "if academia were toy boats, industry would be aircraft carriers." Edit - the blog post clears this up: The way I think of it, being in academia is a lot like building toy boats and playing with them in your bathtub. ... Where
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Being Here Is Already a Win- there are thousands of startups that frequent here monthly. If you do any of the above and seem even remotely good, you will probably get some level of interest. How does simply being on HN help? I suppose you
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Colocated? If not, what is the provider? $80 a month for that seems quite cheap.
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Ask HN: Tell us about your greatest failures
6 points by ehsanul 16y ago|2 comments
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Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs(youtube.com)
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Christopher "moot" Poole: The case for anonymity online(youtube.com)
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Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"(youtube.com)
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Along similar lines, I had thought of a slightly strange idea for a web app where people could sign up to get a "virtual boss" to encourage them in whatever way to be productive (whatever "productive" may mean). A lot of people do much bett
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by ehsanul 16y ago
This may be good for feedback/discussion: http://answers.onstartups.com/
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Playing guitar with double-tapping and other similar methods does require coordination of hands that's similar to that in a piano, it would seem to me. But I'm not a pianist, so who knows.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
BTW, the 100 minutes/month is only for web share, where the person viewing only needs a url/pin to see your screen. If you get the other person to use Yuuguu as well, screen-sharing is free and unlimited, as far as I know. I use it at work
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Nope. That's what GLaDOS, the AI you beat in Portal, says in one part of the game. GLaDOS is a psychotic AI who says hilarious things like that. It's only funny if you know what happens in the game though.
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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom(zyvex.com)
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I get asked the same all the time, and my standard answer is that I would hate CS if I had to take classes in it, doing tedious homework problems in C++. I don't think it's too common, though I did get surprised once by a classmate of mine
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by ehsanul 16y ago
BS in Mechanical Engineering here, with 10 days to graduation. Then I'm going to trying out everything: applying for jobs, trying to get a research assistantship for grad school (hopefully RoMeLa), starting freelancing, and working on a web
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Late to the party but, but just one suggestion: Aerial Boundaries by the late Michael Hedges - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaIN13aDbCc Pretty much anything by him is superb IMO.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
For every idea you come up with, there are probably ten other people in the world executing that same idea. This just may be true. It's best to use this to your advantage. When you think you have an utterly original idea that will open up
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by ehsanul 16y ago
My app's crappy URL validation completely fails IDNs, though that's not really an issue for me now. Can anybody point to a good resource on validating these IDNs (besides RFC 3490)?
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On The Goodness of Unicode(tbray.org)
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Squirmy Words: "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like bananas"(tbray.org)
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Postsingular by Rudy Rucker - Free Sci-Fi Book about Nanobots(rudyrucker.com)
2 points by ehsanul 16y ago|1 comments
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Take a look at the permanent portfolio. http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/22/permanent-portfolio-... http://crawlingroad.com/blog/tag/permanent-portfolio/
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Is Lisp a Blub Language?(coding.derkeiler.com)
39 points by ehsanul 16y ago|76 comments

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